SF News Hippie Hill Pot Sting Ends In Buzzkill For SFPD An attempted pot bust on Hippie Hill back in February was snuffed out this week after a jury decided the alleged pot dealer was actually just a chill dude trying to smoke somebody
SF News Serial Panty Pilferer Allowed To Walk Free Despite His Urge For Undergarments Anthony Robinson, the man accused of stealing ladies' underthings from the Union Square Victoria's Secret on no fewer than five separate occasions, has been allowed to walk free on the streets of San
SF News Man Shot At SF Pride Sues For $10 Million Should past violent incidents at events like Halloween, Pink Saturday, and previous SF Pride celebrations have spurred Pride organizers to increase the level of security for their 2013 event? "Absolutely," says the attorney
SF News Are SFPD's Bait Bikes Entrapment? The San Francisco Police Department's bait bike program has been applauded by the local bike community and subsequently profiled by the New York Times (much to the envy of our colleagues in New
SF News Cop Accused Of Domestic Violence Gets Laughably Brief Sentence It's good to know people in powerful places. Take, for example, San Francisco police officer Richard Soares, who received a feather-light sentence after being convicting of charges stemming from an assault on his
SF News SFPD Officer Sued For Spitting On, Nearly Running Over Traffic Cop A 31-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department is the target of a federal civil rights lawsuit this week. Officer Thomas Lovrin is accused of spitting on and nearly running down Department
SF News [Updated] SWAT Raids San Francisco Hells Angels Outpost, Nabs Suspect In Assault At least one person was arrested during an early morning raid of the San Francisco headquarters of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, SF police say. At 5 AM, SFPD officers served a search
SF News City's New 911 System Is 'A Nightmare,' Say Dispatchers The City of San Francisco's brand-new, multi-million dollar 911 dispatch system is reportedly full of software glitches that have longtime dispatchers worried about the safety of police officers, firefighters and regular citizens who
SF News Loud Noise At SF General Freaks UCSF's Twitter Account Out An erroneous report of gunfire at SF General sent an estimated 100 cops to rushing the hospital, in an panic that a spokesperson has described as "a false alarm in the Internet age.
SF News 4/20 Cleanup Costs Were Incredibly High This Year Due to extra police staffing, Muni re-routing, and trash cleanup, the cost of cleaning up after the annual April 20th smoke-out/celebration in Golden Gate Park soared to over $100,000 this year.
SF News San Francisco's Murder Rate Is Way Down, Says Chief Suhr According to SFPD chief Greg Suhr, the city's murder rate has been way, way down for the first part of 2014. To date, San Francisco has seen only four homicides. "This could very
SF News Food Not Bombs Marchers Arrested At S.F. May Day Rally Thursday's May Day rally in San Francisco overlapped with Food Not Bombs' weekly food share at 16th and Mission, resulting in the arrests of both marchers and FNB workers. Police even allegedly flipped
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
