SF News Road Rage Prompts Stabbing of Off-Duty SFPD Officer Yesterday, a little after 1pm at Haight and Steiner, an off-duty police officer was stabbed. According to reports, the officer was cycling along when he had a "verbal exchange or altercation" with a
SF News SFPD Accused of Racial Profiling Latino immigrants are fuming that they're the target of racial profiling from SFPD goons. A hearing was held at City Hall on Monday, where "dozens" of non-English speakers told harrowing stories of being
SF News De La Plaza Death Ruled '100 Percent Homicide' by French Authorities A new twist on the stabbing death of Hugues De La Plaza: actualy crime fighting. It seems French police have humiliated SFPD after having ruling De La Plaza's death a homicide. If you
SF News SF Police Commission to Hold Public Hearing for New Chief Pretending it will make a difference, the SF Police Commission will give San Franciscans the chance to voice their feelings on what they want from their newest, yet-to-be-announced Chief of Police. San Francisco
SF News SFPD Chief Heather Fong Calls it Quits Just as Mayor Gavin Newsom jump starts efforts to get the hell out of San Francisco, Police Chief Heather Fong announced her retirement. The big news came on Saturday on the Newsom's All-Star
misc Today in San Francisco History - "Miss Goldie Griffin Wants to Become Cop" Timecapsule: December 9, 1912 Another item culled directly from the pages of our historical newspapers, this one from the period in which California women had just won the right to vote -- something
SF News San Francisco Police Calls Now Available on EveryBlock EveryBlock a site that gathers info going on in your block, just launched an hour or so ago one of the niftiest features we've seen in awhile. The now publish every call made
misc Today in San Francisco History - The Black Cat Café Timecapsule: October 31, 1963 On Halloween night, the "Black Cat Cafe" -- that notorious, flamboyant and most historically significant of San Francisco's gay nightspots, held a final celebration before closing down for good.
SF News Glide Memorial Church Food Line's New Menu Items Results in Two Arrests Two unidentified East Bay men (one on probation, the other on parole) were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after an undercover sting caught them dealing crack-cocaine in the food line for the homeless/hungry
SF News Woman Of-A-Certain-Age Shot By SFPD Wielded Knife Remember the lady who was shot several times in her Mission district apartment? Well, the victim, Teresa Sheehan, 56, "lunged at officers with a knife" before officers turned her into the female 50
SF News NYC's Famed Naked Cowboy Arrested in SF Just a few days before people were performing fellatio in the streets of San Francisco, New York City's famed Naked Cowboy was arrested in Union Square. Sporting a cowboy hat, a guitar, and
SF News Bomb on 16th Street? Here we go again. We just received word that "[t]he cops closed down 16th Street between Folsom and South Van Ness." And our favorite piece of SFPD technology, the adorable SFPD bomb
SF News BREAKING NEWS: SFPD Bomb Squad at 39th Avenue According to SFist reader Salty, as of 8:30 p.m. the SFPD bomb squad has been stationed "[m]idway down the 1600 block, on the west side" of 39th Avenue (i.e.
SF News Text the Police!!! In lieu of calling 911 or you local police station when you need to report a crime anonymously, now you can do so via text messaging. And it's too easy! At least according
SF News SFist Blotter In the city of Richmond this weekend, a woman was "brutally raped" on the Richmond High School campus while walking home from the grocery store at around 11 p.m. The suspect was
SF News Washington Post Rightfully Bashes SFPD's Mad Skillz The San Francisco Police Department gets trashed (again), this time care of Karl Vick's Washington Post post article on the foibles of our very own Keystone Cops. In it, basically, he reveals that
SF News Bayview Shooting Kills 37-Year-Old Man No arrests have been made in this most recent killing in one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods. This brings the SF murder toll to a whopping 19 so far for 2008.
SF News Brief, Brutal Footage of Mini-Protest at Market Street Bob Brigham sent SFist the above footage from today's small protest on Market Street, which prefaces tonight's massive anti-war rally at Civic Center. The photographer getting manhandled at around 20-25 seconds in is
SF News Dead Body Discovered In Front of Boss Nightclub In SOMA Just seconds ago we came across frantic police activity at Boss nightclub (on Harrison Street between Third and Fourth streets). Police informed us that they found a dead body, and declined to give
SF News Man Falls to His Death In Tenderloin Elevator Shaft, Two Arrested In the Tenderloin on Saturday night, three men were heatedly arguing in an apartment building over on the 400 block of Jones Street (at Ellis). During the fight, one man died after he
SF News Did You Hear It? After their American Idol hour was unforgivably interrupted by the San Francisco Police Department making an announcement last night, a reader writes to SFist asking: At about 8:55pm tonight, my viewing of
SF News SFist Blotter What a care- and crime-free life SF is living right now,right? And we don't believe any of it. According to local media outlets, SF is safe and sound. But according to a
SF News Update: Missing SF Child Alert Update: Recent reports say that Mireya was seen leaving her family's apartment alone yesterday at 9:30 a.m., telling her four-year-old brother that she'd see him tomorrow. Mireya's mother was quoted as
SF News SFPD Puts a Stop to CashTomato's Giveaway Inside Dolores Park Huh. The San Francisco Police Department has put the kibosh on tomorrow's Dolores Park free cash giveaway care of Cash Tomato. Check it: This Saturday 23rd February at 10am, we had planned to
