misc Overheard @ Grant Ave and Post St A motorcycle cop reprimanding a pulled-over driver upon seeing his I.D., "Always the French. You need to drive better." [Overheard by D.P.]
SF News Crime Lab Clusterfu*k Results In Noe Valley Murderer Rampage Via Noe Valley SF and the Chron we hear tell of the case of the unsolved murder Charles McAleer-Bonilla outside his home at 28th and Sanchez on April 8, which now appears solved
SF News Crime Lab Should Privatize Crime Lab Work, Says City Controller See what baggie theft can lead to? An irrevocable chain of gruesome events. CBS 5 reports, "A newly released report from the San Francisco City Controller concludes that the SFPD should privatize much
SF News DNA Backlog at SFPD Includes 23 Murders, 86 Rapes The backlog at the SFPD's crime lab includes evidence that could convict murderers in 23 cases, as well as evidence in 86 sexual assaults and 187 burglaries, some dating back to 2005 and
SF News Today in SF History: 'Black Friday' at City Hall On May 13th 1960, a group of Bay Area college students gathered outside the Supervisors' chambers at City Hall on the second day of hearings by the House Un-American Activities subcommittee, which was
SF News SF Cops' Shady Pasts Could Overturn Hundreds of Convictions In a story that could make the cocaine-stealing story look like schoolyard drama, The Chronicle has a brilliant gem of an investigative piece today. Brace yourselves: "more than 80 San Francisco police officers
SF News Sixth Street May Be Getting Its Own Police Substation The City is in negotiations with the landlord at 72 6th Street to create what could become a new mid-market station for the SFPD called the Sixth Street Substation. As the Examiner reports,
SF News Anti-Straight Discrimination Alleged at Mission Police Station A former SFPD cop is claiming anti-straight discrimination at the Mission police station, and now she's taking action. Mission Local reports that openly heterosexual Lori Dutra, a former patrol officer, "alleges she suffered
SF News Crime Lab Technician Madden Says Everyone "Laughed" About Drug Discrepancies According to Deborah Madden's statement to police which ultimately led to her forced resignation and the great shaming of the SFPD, she was only doing what everyone else did, swiping cocaine that was
SF News SF Ranks 6th 'Best Bike City' In Random Article "Christy" at GotSaga.com lists the 8 best cities in which to ride a bike. While Montreal, Canada wins the top spot, San Francisco lands a comfy 6th. "Chrity" writes: "If you have
SF News Police Chief George Gascón Apologizes to Middle Eastern Communities As we predicted this morning, San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón made his official apology today regarding statements he made about our local Middle Eastern ilk possibly parking a van outside the Hall
SF News Police Chief Gascón Angers Middle Eastern and Arab Community During a breakfast to celebrate a $412 million June-ballot bond to seismically retrofit a city buildings, San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón made a comment, according the SF Chronicle, about how the Hall
SF News Gascón Promotes LAPD Buddy to Assistant Chief In the wake of that whole crime lab cocaine brouhaha, SFPD chief George Gascón is shuffling some staff, and promoting his recently hired buddy from L.A., Jeff Godown from commander to assistant
SF News SFPD Waits Two Months to Investigate Lab Tech Accused of Stealing Cocaine In a snafu that has resulted in the dismissal of at least 90 criminal cases so far, new reports reveal that the San Francisco Police department waited two months to launch their investigation
SF News Brown Joins SFPD Into Drug Lab Evidence Tampering Case After allegations popped up that Deborah Madden, a 60-year-old lab technician for the SFPD, stole and used cocaine evidence she was supposed to analyze, Attorney General (and, most likely, the future Governor of
SF News Gavin Wants to Ban Texting at City Meetings Fearing that city officials are being unfairly influenced by lobbyists during hearings, Mayor Newsom wants to ban all texting and iPhone usage in city meetings. It's likely to be an impossible task, since
SF News SFPD Drug Technician Accused of Stealing Cocaine Forces Lab's Closure Caught with her hand in the cokie jar, if you will, Deborah Madden, a 60-year-old lab technician who stole and indulged in some of the disco dust she was supposed to analyze, forced
misc Thumbs Up, SFPD: Bike Theft Story San Franciscans are all too quick to jump down the throats of the fine men and women of the San Francisco Police Department. Because, more or less, it looks cool and sounds like
SF News Suspect Arrested in South SF Home Invasion What's up with all the home invasions lately? A suspect by the name of Juan Carlos Vasquez was arrested in the Mission yesterday in connection with a five-hour (!) home invasion robbery in South
SF News Critical Mass Ruling in NY May Have Implications Here While Critical Mass isn't quite the city-crippling force in New York as it is in SF, Bicycle Coalition types on the opposite side of the country have been in a court battle that
SF News Man Leaps to His Death Off Forever 21 Building A man wearing only underwear got out on a ledge yesterday afternoon at 10 Cyril Magnin (the building at the base of Powell that was formerly a big Bank of America and now
SF News Crazy Car Chase Ends on Octavia Bay City News (via the Appeal) tells us this morning about a mad crazy car chase that started in San Jose, with a driver who wouldn't pull over for Santa Clara County sherriffs'
SF News Machete-Wielding Old Man Shot, Killed By SFPD A 65-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday night on Maynard Street in the Ingleside district, after he approached officers with a machete and failed to respond to their verbal commands. The man's
SF News SF Sees Lowest Homicide Rate Since 1961 With a comparatively scant 45 homicides, and "a decline in lethal shootings, stabbings and bludgeonings of more than 50 percent from both 2007 and 2008," San Francisco will see a shockingly low homicide
