SF News SFPD Officer Involved In 'Large-Scale' Busts of Drug Dealers Faces Discipline, Multiple Cases Likely to Be Dropped An SFPD officer is facing internal disciplinary proceedings and has been put on desk duty after it was discovered that she may have had an inappropriate relationship with a confidential informant.
SF News After Two High-Profile Crashes, SF Police Commission Wants Review of Vehicle Pursuit Policy An innocent bystander was killed in a late May SFPD car chase crash, and a child was nearly struck by an SFPD SUV in last week’s Lucca Ravioli crash, so the SF Police Commission thinks it’s high time to review the department’s pursuit policy.
SF News During Police Chase, SFPD Vehicle Crashes Through Storefront of Former Lucca Ravioli in Mission, Injuring Two An SFPD SUV careened into a storefront on Valencia Street in the Mission District Wednesday evening, reportedly as it was in pursuit of another vehicle suspected to be linked to a violent crime.
SF News SFPD Fatally Shoots Man In Richmond District Home Suspected of Killing His Elderly Mother and a Dog San Francisco police officers were called to a home in the Richmond District early Thursday on a report of an aggravated assault in progress, and things soon turned deadly.
SF News SFPD Says 95% of Their Drug Arrests Under Current Crackdown Are People From Out of Town The new SF drug dealing and use crackdown has now yielded 45 arrests according to data presented by SFPD, and of those, police say only three of them live in San Francisco.
SF News SFPD Finds Large Haul of Guns and Drugs While Arresting Suspected Illegal Gun Suppliers In North Beach An SF man was arrested for firing shots at police on two occasions in January, and the ongoing investigation led SFPD to the North Beach home of an alleged gun supplier, and boy did they find guns and drugs while searching his residence.
SF Politics New Multi-Agency 'Command Center' to Open Near UN Plaza to Disrupt Drug-Selling The SF Department of Emergency Management and the Mayor's Office announced Friday that they would be opening a new join "command center" on Market Street near Civic Center, in order to coordinate with the SFPD and public health department to try to shut down open-air drug markets.
SF News Allegedly Armed Suspect Shot By SFPD Officer After Hours-Long Standoff in Glen Park Neighborhood Friday Afternoon Police responded to reports of an armed individual apparently entering the building at 145 Bosworth Street with an open container of alcohol and a handgun and threatening people inside around 2:30 p.m. Friday.
SF Politics SF DA Drops Charges Against Officer In Jamaica Hampton Shooting, Says Grand Jury Was Shown Biased Evidence A 2020 indictment by a grand jury in the December 2019 officer-involved shooting of then-25-year-old Jamaica Hampton was the result of political motivation from former DA Chesa Boudin, and a grand jury that was shown incomplete evidence, says SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
SF News More Retired SFPD Officers Being Deployed as 'Ambassadors' In a Half Dozen SF Neighborhoods The SFPD's Community Ambassador Program, in which retired, civilian officers are deployed to do foot patrols and deter crime, is expanding by 50 percent, as Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced Friday.
SF News Supervisors Give SFPD Significant Pay Raise, Starting Salary Now $103,000 The SF Board of Supervisors approved a nearly 11% salary increase for SFPD officers over the next three years, which will hopefully do something to encourage new officers to join the department, and encourage existing officers to solve more crimes.
SF Politics SFPD Gets Their $25 Million More In Overtime Approved, Money They’ve Apparently Already Been Dipping Into It’s a good thing the SFPD got their $25 million more in overtime approved by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday, because it seems they had already started spending plenty of that over-budget overtime money.
SF News Fender-Bender On Mission District Alley Leads to Man Being Shot Two cars collided Sunday evening in SF's Mission District, and in an apparent act of road rage, one driver shot the other driver before fleeing the scene.
SF Politics SF DA Brooke Jenkins Has Cut Staff Level of Unit That Investigates Police By More Than Half In further evidence that DA Jenkins may not be as aggressive in her pursuit of police accountability as her predecessors, the Chronicle has found that Jenkins has less than half the number of attorneys and fewer investigators working in the unit responsible for investigating police abuses.
SF Politics Mayor Seeks Extra $27.6M to Cover SFPD Overtime Costs Amid Crackdown on Drug Dealing, Petty Crime A week after her State of the City address, SF Mayor London Breed is asking the Board of Supervisors to approve a new chunk of money in the budget for police overtime costs — and she stresses this is about improving street safety across the city.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two Peninsula Men for August Mission District Quadruple-Shooting That Left One Dead Four people were shot and one of them killed in an early-morning shooting last summer at 19th and Mission Streets, but police have finally arrested a Daly City man and a Colma man who they think are responsible.
SF News SF Police Commission Bans Pretextual Stops for Minor Traffic Violations, After Months of Controversy After a five-hour debate at Wednesday night’s Police Commission meeting, the commission did finally adopt a policy to bar SFPD from making stops for nine specific traffic infractions that supporters of the ban say are ticky-tack offenses meant to search, incarcerate, and prosecute people of color.
SF News SF Sees Exact Same Number of Homicides In 2022 As Previous Year, While Burglaries Are Down According to the preliminary numbers from the SFPD, San Francisco looks to have had the exact same number of homicides in 2022 as in 2021 — a total of 55 — as of the end of the calendar year.
SF News SFPD Touts 60 Arrests In New Retail Shoplifting Crackdown Today in ‘People congratulating themselves for doing their job,’ the San Francisco police announced they’ve been running a secret anti-shoplifting operation since late November, and have nabbed 60 retail theft suspects in the process.
SF News SFPD Officer Named In Celeste Guap Scandal Still Making Full Salary, Relegated to SFPD's Version of a 'Rubber Room' SF taxpayers have paid about $17 million to continue to employ police in desk jobs for largely disciplinary reasons, including one officer implicated in the notorious Celeste Guap scandal who’s pulling up to $240,000 a year.
SF News Police Commission Scales Back Limits on Traffic Stops After Public Pushback The SF Police Commission is scaling back a plan to do away with most traffic stops in San Francisco, after public safety advocates and members of the public expressed concerns about the potential impacts on street safety.
SF News Supervisors Approve SFPD Use of Killer Robots — What Could Go Wrong? The SF Police Department got Board of Supervisors approval to use robots as a “deadly force option” against suspects Tuesday night. But at least the robots will only have bombs instead of firearms?
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFPD Appears to Be Making More Stops and Arrests Under New DA A study of the first three months since Brooke Jenkins was appointed DA finds that SFPD officers are making more stops and arrests, Washington High teachers are staging a sickout, and the break-in at the Pelosis' was caught on camera but no one was watching.
SF News [Update] Well-Known Alleged Serial Sexual Predator Arrested Following Warrant Alleged SF serial predator Bill Gene Hobbs has spent plenty more time in the headlines lately than in custody, though he was arrested Friday not long after a warrant was issued for him Friday morning.
SF News Three Arrested Following Standoff, Including 15-Year-Old, In Armed Robbery Outside Mission Bar The SFPD apprehended three suspects believed to be responsible for an armed robbery outside of a Mission District bar earlier this week, following a Wednesday standoff in SoMa.
