SF News Evil Elmo Returns With Anti-Semitic Rant On Muni Fisherman's Wharf fixture Dan Sandler, a.k.a. Evil Elmo, is back! He's making headlines again just six weeks after a pair of Chronicle pieces in which we learned of a recent scuffle
SF News Bait Bikes Ready To Nab S.F. Bike Thieves A heads-up to all active and would-be bike thieves: SFPD will plant the city with bait bikes ready to tempt scheming ne'er-do-wells. "We have bait bikes deployed all over the city. Our bikes
SF News Park Station Police Captain Greg Corrales Still Very Anti-Weed While simultaneously touting the impending crackdown by city leaders on this year's 4/20 craziness, Park Station police captain Greg Corrales included in his typically amusing Park Station Newsletter this week an Associated
SF News It's Just A Drill: BART Conducting Security Exercises Friday If you see cops, TSA agents, and other law enforcement officers scrambling during your morning commute Friday, don't worry, it's (probably) not a disaster. According to BART spokesperson Luna Salaver, on Friday morning,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Egg Sale At Allegedly Vermin Infested Walgreens Prompts Riot Not since the blessing scam tote bag riot of 2013 has San Francisco's Chinatown seen such a melee! According to the SF Examiner, the Walgreens at Stockton near Vallejo was the scene of
SF News San Francisco To Explore Even More Cop-Mounted Cameras In the wake of an officer-involved shooting that left one City College student dead, Supervisor John Avalos is calling for a new hearing to explore the idea of attaching cameras to San Francisco
SF News Video Shows Cop Choking Handcuffed Giants Fan [Update] A fan at Tuesday's SF Giants home opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks recorded this footage of an SFPD officer and what appears to be a non-resisting Giants fan. Bigbodycisco, who uploaded the video,
SF News SFPD On 'High Alert' After Officers Threatened Would-be lawbreakers in San Francisco might want to think twice these days, as the cops are reportedly more on edge than ever before. According to an SFPD spokesperson, recent threats made against officers
SF News Bomb Squad Investigating Suspicious Package Found In Mission [Updated] In the Mission District at around 7:40 PM, a suspicious package has caused a street closure at 20th between Valencia and Guerrero. A shelter in place is also in effect. #UPDATE: Police
SF News Fatal SFPD Shooting: Chief Suhr To Face Tough Questions Tonight San Francisco police department Chief Greg Suhr had better be prepared for some tough questions tonight, when he is scheduled to face the public to answer questions about a controversial SFPD shooting that
SF News SFPD Union Raffling Off Sweet Prizes To Cover Alleged Dirty Cops' Legal Defense The San Francisco Police Officers Association has come to the defense of five active and one former SFPD officer indicted on federal charges for extortion, drug dealing, theft and other alleged dirty deeds
SF News Library User Beats Flasher Off With Anthrozoology Text [Updated] When Brittany Clark checked Hal Herzog's Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals out from the library, it's likely she was
SF News How A Mission Shooting From 2000 Became A Homicide In 2014 When Carlos Vargas was struck by at least three bullets on a Mission District in October 28, 2000, it seemed like a miracle that he survived. But his fate was apparently delayed, not
Arts & Entertainment This SFPD Training Video Is Oddly Gripping Just hours after after the beleaguered San Francisco Police Department began to come to terms with the federal indictments handed down to five of their active officers, a different side, more thespian side
SF News 5 SF Police Officers Indicted For Extortion, Drug Dealing Boom. Today five active police officers and one former cop were indicted on charges of extortion, drug dealing, and theft, and falsifying police reports (just to name a few) while working for the
SF News Serial Panty Pirate Nabbed In Union Square Have you ever bought Victoria's Secret panties that fell off the back of a proverbial truck? Then, 1) you make some interesting decisions that we would love to hear more about in the
SF News Alleged Mission Bank Robber Nabbed A 53 year old San Francisco man has been arrested for the robbery of a Mission District bank on Monday, just blocks from the scene of the crime. According to SFPD spokesperson Officer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Have A Cop Wait On You Tonight If you don't have dinner plans tonight, maybe you'd like to be waited on by a cop? Tonight's the annual(ish) "Tip a Cop" fundraiser, in which, says SFPD's Ray Padmore, "Officers will
SF News Young Tech Worker Who Called 911 On Behalf Of Injured Cyclist Arrested, Roughed Up, Jailed [Updated] A man calling himself a "good Samaritan" who called 911 after finding a girl injured in a bicycling accident late one weekend night in SoMa has taken to the internet to describe what
SF News Oakland Man Found Guilty Of Brutal Pride Weekend Assault 23-year-old Christopher Porter-Bailey, the suspect caught on tape brutally kicking a 28-year-old woman in the head after last year's Pink Saturday festivities, has been found guilty of robbery, assault and battery with serious
SF News Manhunt Underway For Armed Gunman In Dogpatch After High-Speed Chase [Update] We're getting word of a high-speed chase that ended in Dogpatch near 20th and Third Streets. Armed police are now on foot in Potrero. Gunshots have been fired. We'll update as soon as
SF News Suspicious Package Triggers Shelter-In-Place In Pac Heights [Update] A shelter-in-place has been ordered on Scott Street between Sacramento and Clay due to police activity. SFPD requests that you stay inside with the windows closed. According to the San Francisco Department of
SF News Cyclist Tweets Allegations Of Possible Bike Chop Shops [Updated] Yesterday on Twitter, @SFPDBikeTheft, the noted Twitter account that helps inform SFPD about bike thefts in progress, had a bit of a run-in with local cyclists accusing SFPD of not taking bike thievery
SF News A Bomb Exploded In A Neighborhood With $4 Toast Last Night Last night in the Outer Sunset, San Francisco Police detonated a suspicious device found in a home behind the Western Sunset Market at Judah and 46th Avenues. That is so many avenues. Who
SF News Off-Duty SFPD Officer Opens Fire After Fender Bender A fender bender on Interstate 280 ended with a light grazing of road rage early Sunday morning when an off-duty SFPD sergeant and the other motorist involved in the accident got into a