SF News Protest Planned Today Against SFPD for Bayview Self-Defense Shooting Death Oh dear. A protest is planned today in Dolores Park over the shooting death of murder suspect Kenneth Harding, 19, who was killed by SFPD officers in Bayview on Saturday after evading fare
SF News Video Shows Graphic Scene Moments After SFPD-Involved Bayview Shooting Death With shouts of "fuck the police" filling the background, the following (very graphic) video shows SFPD officers just moments after they shot and killed armed 19-year-old Kenneth Harding on Saturday. You can see
SF News Muni Fare Evader Killed by SFPD Was Washington Murder Suspect SFPD has identified the man shot and killed by officers after a Muni fare inspection turned in to a shootout Saturday afternoon. According to the Chronicle this morning, SFPD identified the victim as
SF News The Public Reacts to Yesterday's Officer-Involved Fatal Shooting in Bayview [Updated] Indy Bay posted a link to the below YouTube video of the crowd at the scene (updated link, via SFist commenter snapshotist) immediately after yesterday's fatal shooting of a 19-year-old, allegedly armed fare-evader
SF News Officer-Involved Fatal Shooting in Bayview [Updated] A 19-year-old allegedly armed man was fatally shot in Bayview at about 4:40 p.m. this evening after he ran from police conducting a Muni fare inspection along the T-Third line on
SF News 30 DUI Arrests in SF Over July 4th Weekend It looks like the sobriety checkpoint the San Francisco Police Department set up in the Marina over the four-day weekend was a successful one. Thirty DUI arrests were made throughout the city, and
SF News Thrasher Magazine Co-Founder ID'd as Man Who Committed Suicide at SFPD Station The man who shot and killed himself outside the SFPD Mission Station on Valencia Street was identified today as Eric Swenson, a 64-year-old San Francisco resident who was also the co-founder of popular
SF News Man Shoots, Kills Self Outside SFPD Station An unidentified man committed suicide outside the SFPD MIssion station Monday morning. "The incident was reported at about 9 a.m. outside the doors of the police station at 630 Valencia," reports SF
SF News Sit-Lie Ordinance Useless, Says SF Police San Francisco's controversial sit-lie ordinance, which passed in November by a narrow margin, has accomplished what many predicted: nothing. The law, making it verboten to sit or lie on public sidewalks between 7
SF News SFPD Loses a Car During Hippie Hill Bust Yesterday afternoon in Golden Gate Park, two SFPD officers left the keys in the ignition of their unmarked "greenish" Crown Victoria while they stepped out to assist with an arrest in progress. Apparently,
SF News Adieu, SFPD Horses, Hawk and Hunter! The San Francsico Police Department announced yesterday that the SFPD Mounted Unit will hold a retirement ceremony for two of its horses on Saturday, May 28. Hawk, a 25-year-old American Quarter Horse who
SF News Botox Pageant Mom Under Investigation After San Francisco stage mom Kerry Campbell appeared on Good Morning America and Inside Edition Thursday to defen her 8-year-old daughter's Botox injections and bikini waxes, Child Protective Services and SFPD plan on
SF News Alleged Illegal Search, SF Police Brutality Caught On Video The office of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi released a video today showing San Francisco Police Department officers physically attacking an apparent bystander after (allegedly) illegally searching the room of a residential
SF News Updated: Nine Months Later, SFPD to Announce Arrests in Shooting of German Tourist Last August, Mechthild Schröer was shot near Union Square while visiting San Francisco from Germany with her husband and family. The story was some teenagers, spilling out of an overcrowded under-18 party at
SF News SFPD Crime Lab: Horribly Understaffed, Expensive After promising nearly a year ago to hire additional DNA analysts to cut through a backlog of cases, the Police Department's crime lab still has less than half the staff it needs to
SF News Greg Suhr: New SFPD Chief Mayor Ed Lee swore in Greg Suhr, 52, as San Francisco's newest chief of police this morning. A 30-year-veteran of the SPFD, Suhr is known best for dramatically reducing homicide rates in Bayview
SF News SFPD In Search Of At-Risk Elderly Woman The San Francisco Police Department is asking for help in finding Keu Thang, 89, an at-risk elderly woman, who went missing on Saturday evening at about 7 p.m. Thang suffers from medical
SF News Police Make Arrest in Crocker Amazon Park Rape SFPD made an arrest yesterday in the rape of a female jogger in Crocker Amazon Park on Friday afternoon. San Francisco resident Xavier Neal, 18, allegedly grabbed the 38-year-old victim (jogging near the
SF News Two Fires Spark in S.F. Early This Morning Two smallish fires erupted this morning in San Francisco. First, "San Francisco firefighters responded to a one-alarm fire in the Sunset District this morning...at around 3:30 a.m. to a building
SF News <em>You're Recused</em>: Gascón Lets the FBI Take Over Police Misconduct Case In a statement to the media, reprinted on the Appeal, the nicely coifed District Attorney explained that "new information has come to light" in the investigation of alleged police misconduct at the Henry
SF News 42 More Cases Dropped Due To SFPD Surveillance Video Scandal (FOOTAGE) District Attorney (and former SFPD Chief) George Gascón announced today that, according to The Chronicle, "The misconduct investigation into a San Francisco police unit of undercover officers will force prosecutors to drop another
SF News Current Tally in Dropped Public Defender Cases Due To SFPD Surveillance Video Scandal: 13 A total of thirteen cases being handled by the public defender's office have been dropped so far by the district attorney over the past few days as a result of the release of
SF News SFPD, Mission Neighborhood Groups Huddle Up on Gang Violence According to KTVU this morning, that shooting in the Mission at 24th and Harrison yesterday was not only gang related, but was apparently retaliation for Saturday's fatal shooting of another known gang member.
SF News At-Risk Elderly Man Missing SFPD are asking for help in the search of 73-year-old Kenneth Chin, who suffers from dementia. According to KTVU, Chin was escorted by caregivers at his Richmond District assisted living home, Nacario Care