Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Bikes, Cars, SFPD, Enforcement Actions As has been discussed recently, it's seems the S.F.P.D. has some stepped-up traffic safety enforcement actions going on these days. SFist Reader Kate told us about what she saw yesterday
SF News SFist Blotter A gay African-American high school English teacher at the private Urban School is recovering from three stab wounds he received a few weeks ago while eating at the Taqueria Cancun down near Mission
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy Part II And away we go... Why do the fare inspectors seem to cluster together in packs of 4 or more? Safety in numbers? Or because it's an easier way to check for passes/transfers?
SF News Don't Hate Esther Because She's Beautiful Hwang claims that she was outside the North Beach bar Dolce last week, celebrating the end of her law school finals and waiting for her boyfriend when she saw some police officers. She
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy As always, if you have any questions to either the driver or the security guy, e-mail us at [email protected]. Now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast. Earlier this week, the Examiner
SF News Day Around The Bay --Our sources report that only like four non-media people showed up for the anti-Jerry Falwell protest (picture above, and two more pictures after the jump). --Chris Daly called Newsom campaign manager Eric Jaye
SF News SFist Blotter It's a tough biz, the tourism industry -- the cops had to break up a fight between the Bush Man, the Clown Man, and the Fisherman over who got to work what turf
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy It goes without saying that if you have any questions, drop us a line at editor @ sfist.com. First question, what exactly is Muni Security MUNI security detail entails: There are a bunch
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Critical Mass, April 2007 The rolling Rorschach test that is Critical Mass once again delighted and frustrated those in S.F. tonight. We saw pissed-off bus riders, but also a few delighted hotel guests. We saw some
SF News Bloody, Bloody Weekend The deaths in question involved two shootings, the murder of a Marina nail and beauty salon owner, a person who was chased down by a car, and the fifth was a hit-and-run by
SF News I Fought the Law and I Won Here comes the numbers: -San Francisco sent 436 people to prison in 2005, the same number as Sonoma County which has 300,000 fewer people. It is also 300 fewer than were sent
misc SFist Answers: Towing And Selling Out Please, for your sake, send Questions you want Answered to [email protected], and we will do our best to provide. Maybe walkies after this?: Q: A: When we put your Question to
Arts & Entertainment Photoshopping Gavin & Han Shin Now, we're no Photoshop experts, but a reader who is sent along the following thoughts: The light on Gavin's face is coming from over the photog's right shoulder. So there is a shadow
misc More Police Walking the Streets. Currently, four projects have patrols set up. Those are ones in Sunnydale (in Visitacion Valley, not the Hell Mouth), Potrero, Hunters Point and Alice Griffith. Since putting in the foot patrols, crime is
SF News Today in Crime This morning, police looked for a suspect who robbed and shot a 42-year old man. The suspect, however, ran off after the robbery, evading the police. They police searched a nearby residence looking
SF News And Now For Something Completely Different...GleeGate! So let's go the families. A couple of days ago, the parents of one of the kids who got beat up sent a letter to Kamala Harris wondering what's up. They apparently got
SF News Doing Something About Crime Right now, the SFPD are going to try and protect people by, yes, sending in more cops to police the projects in the Western Addition. Besides more cops, Police Chief Heather Fong is
SF News Police Have a Suspect For Wiesel's part, he finally talked about the incident on Italian TV and said all of this shows a rise in anti-Semitism and that Holocaust deniers are on the rise. Wiesel also said
SF News He Fought the Law and the Law Won The police did approve a payout of $83,000 to the man, Andrew Marconi, and commissioners expressed frustration with the amount of bureaucratic snares that delayed any sort of discipline to take place.
SF News Red Light Means What Exactly? Now the thing about this is that in the last year and a half, there have been eight crashes at the intersection, all caused by red light runners. Last July, a four year
Arts & Entertainment It's The "Dark Day" Video Clip We got an e-mail a few days ago with a link to a YouTube clip done by the people responsible for those SFPD training videos. Since this thing is getting pretty viral pretty
SF News Aqua Teen Hunger Force Strikes San Francisco After the events of today, the marketing company behind it all told the SFPD where they could find the things so the police could disable them. It’s not quite known where all
SF News Last Night in the Lower Haight Last night was a meeting about the spate of violent crime and shootings in the Lower Haight. In attendance were various officials from the SFPD, including Heather Fong, as well as supervisors Ross
misc Tales of Parking Woes Peggy writes: "I live in the Sunset on 41st Avenue across the street from West Sunset Playground. For years we had a neighbor who made watching out for our street her full time
SF News What Goes Up Shouldn't Go Down So here's the numbers: in the three years that Gavin has been Mayor and Heather Fong the Police Commissioner, San Francisco has averaged 90 homicides and 23.5 homicide arrests a year. That's
