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SFPD Predictably Furious After Boudin Drops Charges In Alleged Assault of Police

The police union and SFPD Chief Bill Scott are up in arms that charges were dropped in an alleged stabbing of an officer, but the suspect certainly took more of the beating, and details may have been too flimsy for a guilty verdict.

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Suspect In SF's First Homicide of the Year Turns Himself In

A 43-year-old man linked to a fatal Monday shooting near the Embarcadero turned himself in to San Francisco police shortly after the shooting.

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Annual Gun Buyback Event in San Francisco Receives at Least 265 Firearms

Organized by United Playaz — a violence prevention and youth development nonprofit — SF’s annual gun buyback event was held Saturday at 1038 Howard Street where more than two hundred firearms were surrendered.

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North Beach Restaurant Also Gets Heaps of Hate After Being Mistaken For Place That Turned Away Cops

It should surprise no one that online pitchfork mobs tend not to read very carefully or get their facts straight.

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Stanley Roberts Wrongly Identified As Owner of Restaurant That Refused to Serve Police, Gets Swarmed By Trolls

Veteran journalist Stanley Roberts broke the story of a North Beach cafe refusing to seat on-duty police. The right-wing blogosphere wrongly reported Roberts actually owned the restaurant, and he’s been served heaping helpings of online harassment ever since.

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Former Investigator Sues SF District Attorney In Whistleblower Complaint

The embattled San Francisco District Attorney's Office has one more headache to add to the pile this week as a wrongful termination suit has arrived from a former investigator.

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SFPD Fatally Shoots Knife-Wielding Man at Fifth and Folsom Residential Hotel

There was heavy police activity Friday morning on the 900 block of Folsom Street, after an officer shot and killed a man armed with a knife inside an SRO.

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Unvaccinated SFPD Officer Dies of COVID at Age 46

A San Francisco police officer who had been on the force 17 years died over the weekend, less than a week after testing positive for COVID-19.

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21-Year-Old Man Killed in Haight-Ashbury Homicide Identified

The Haight-Ashbury has been rattled by recent shootings that have left local businesses damaged and cars riddled with bullet holes. But Thursday's episode of gun violence in the neighborhood proved fatal, claiming the life of one 21-year-old Samuel Jessop.

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San Francisco Police Sergeant Arrested For Robbery In San Mateo Rite Aid Incident

An SFPD sergeant with 28 years on the force was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of robbery in an odd incident at a San Mateo Rite Aid that appears to have involved stealing painkillers.

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Boudin Brings Homicide Charges Against SFPD Officer Who Shot Mentally Ill Man in 2017

Chesa Boudin will not be winning any popularity contests with the Police Officers Association, as he has now charged another on-duty officer with homicide, which no previous DA had done before. Boudin has now done it twice.

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Latest Count: 836 SF City Employees Unvaccinated, 60 Police Officers on Leave

Monday was the deadline for full vaccination for all San Francisco city employees, and the city has already begun the arduous process of holding due-process hearings for all those individuals claiming religious and medical exemptions.

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San Francisco Police Suspect Recent Shootings in Haight-Ashbury Are Gang-Related

Last Friday, gunshots were heard ringing off Central Avenue, between Waller and Haight streets, in the Haight-Ashbury, leaving the neighborhood's Ritual Coffee Roasters location and nearby cars damaged. It's now believed that this shooting is gang-related.

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There Are 40 SFPD Officers Now On Leave Because They Wouldn't Get Vaccinated

You'd think that people who work in the San Francisco Police Department or at SF General who interact with the public all day long would have run to get vaccinated the minute they were eligible last winter. But no!

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Almost 200 SF Police Staff Are Seeking Religious Exemptions From COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Over 90% of San Francisco's City workforce — a vocational cohort numbering about 35,140 people — has received a COVID-19 vaccine, abiding by the required vaccine mandate. 2,706 City employees, however, haven't been vaccinated yet; 366 of them are police staff.

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SFPD and City Hall Announce Initiative to Crack Down On Retail Theft Which Includes Privately Funded Police

The City of San Francisco and the SF Police Department announced a new effort Wednesday to address an uptick in brazen retail theft in the city.

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Guy Climbs and Damages Castro Theatre Sign, Creates Bizarre 90-Minute Standoff

An unidentified man climbed the Castro Theatre sign Tuesday night, and according to eyewitnesses, threw cinder blocks to the street, got naked, and masturbated on the roof.

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SF Will Begin Paying People to Not Shoot Other People

The program will be called the Dream Keeper Fellowship, though likely to be dubbed “Cash for Criminals” in the media, and will pay select people $300 a month to avoid gun incidents.

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SFPD Warns of DUI Checkpoints and Patrols on Saturday

The San Francisco Police Department is again letting it be known that they will be out in force this Saturday night/Sunday morning seeking out drunk and impaired drivers in the city.

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Video: Woman Sets Police Truck on Fire in the Tenderloin, Remains at Large

After a woman successfully managed to torch an SFPD pickup truck Wednesday afternoon, police have a description of her, but don't know her name or have her in custody.

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28-Year-Old Suspect Arrested in Relation to Recent Mission District Shooting

On Friday, San Francisco police announced that they detained 28-year-old Samuel Alfaro, who's thought to be connected to a July shooting in the Mission District; Alfaro is currently booked at the San Francisco County Jail on multiple charges.

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SFPD Increases Foot Patrols In Tourist Areas, But Will They Help Make People Feel Safe?

San Francisco police have begun doing more foot patrols around Union Square, Chinatown, and Fisherman's Wharf, in an effort to deter crime and make locals and tourists feel safer about the city. But is this just safety theater?

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Active Shooter Drill In Sunset District Creates Misunderstanding, SFPD Descends on Treasure Island

The San Francisco Fire Department apparently created confusion Wednesday for the San Francisco Police Department with an active shooter drill they were conducting.

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Breed Says '10 Groups' Responsible for 1,000 Burglaries and Car Break-Ins Each Month, and Arrests Have Been Made

San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave their first "CompStat" press conference of the year Monday and they took the opportunity to try to counter the much-repeated narrative about how much crime has been plaguing San Francisco.

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Another Attack On an Elderly Asian Person, Another Round of the Blame Game Between Police and DA

Wednesday's random stabbing of a 94-year-old Asian woman on her morning walk on Post Street has once again prompted finger-pointing among law enforcement, specifically after the suspect was revealed to be another repeat offender who's been in and out of the county jail in the last few years.

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