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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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Twentysomething Man Shot, Killed in SoMa Saturday Night

A little after 11 p.m. Saturday, San Francisco police responded to a reported shooting at Mission Street between 7th and 8th streets; a man believed to be in his mid-twenties was found in his vehicle, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.

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Two Killed in Separate Saturday Shootings in Potrero Hill

A man who was shot Saturday afternoon in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood has died, marking now the second killing to have occurred in the area this weekend — and the third homicide recorded in SF since Friday.

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SFPD Officer Involved In Shooting Near South Park

Just before 1 p.m. Friday, there was an officer-involved shooting near South Park in San Francisco, and details so far are scarce.

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SFPD Vows There Will Be DUI Checkpoints Galore For St. Patrick’s Day

You’ll want to avoid the paddy wagon on this St. Paddy’s Day, and SFPD promises you’re courtin’ trouble if you drive drunk because they’ll be out in force at checkpoints.

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Three Black Men Say They Were Victims of Racial Profiling at Union Square Saks Store

Three men who say they had come to shop Wednesday, as they often do, at the Saks Fifth Avenue store on Post Street in Union Square, say they were the victims of racial profiling and were detained for hours by San Francisco police after doing nothing wrong.

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4-Month-Old Maltese Puppy Reunited With Owners After San Francisco Car Burglary

Named Scruggs, the plush ball of serotonin was returned to his rightful owners after he was stolen from a Subaru parked at the 200 block of Sutter Street in downtown San Francisco earlier this week, according to police.

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San Francisco Police Continue Search for Missing 14-Year-Old Girl

SF teenager Katlin Gallaread left her home between 8 p.m. Tuesday, February 16, and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 17, without notifying her family. Gallaread is still unaccounted for after four or five days since she left her Laguna Heights residence, according to SF police.

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Retired SF Police Officer Allegedly Threatened to Kill 11-Year-Old Over Ding-Dong-Ditch Pranks

A retired San Francisco cop now living in Marin County is being accused of threatening to "put a bullet" in an 11-year-old boy after the boy and his friends were reportedly ringing doorbells in the neighborhood and running away — i.e. playing ding-dong ditch.

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Second Suspect Arrested In Carjack-Kidnapping of DoorDash Driver's Kids

San Francisco police located and arrested the second suspect in the carjacking and kidnapping of a DoorDash driver's minivan with two small children inside.

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Felon With Recent Arrests, Wearing Ankle Monitor, Arrested as Suspect In DoorDash Driver Carjacking/Kidnapping

In yet another case of a San Francisco felon who was roaming the streets with cases pending against him reoffending in a dangerous and high-profile manner, 25-year-old Erlin Romero was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of kidnapping DoorDash driver Jeffrey Fang's two children last Saturday.

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SF District Attorney Will Not File Charges in Mission District Police Killing of Jesus Delgado-Duarte

On Friday, SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin chose not to file charges against the SFPD officers who fired at Jesus Delgado-Duarte back in March of 2018 at 21st and Capp streets; Duarte, who fired only once, was blasted by 99 bullets and died instantly.

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Second Street Crisis Response Team Will Start Responding to Non-Violent Emergency Calls in SF Next Month

Following the launch of San Francisco's first non-police crisis response team in November, another unit of health care clinicians and medical professionals are expected to start addressing mental health and addiction emergency calls in the city come February 1.

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Five Injured in Saturday Night Tenderloin Shooting

A Saturday evening shooting at Eddy and Taylor streets injured five individuals, none of whose injuries appear to be life-threatening; SF police have yet to make it clear if any arrests in connection to the shooting have been made.

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Father Involved In Murder-Suicide That Left 9-Year-Old Dead Was 'Cult-Like' Anti-Vaxxer

The 9-year-old boy killed during Wednesday afternoon's suspected murder-suicide in the Marina District has been identified as the son of Leslie Hu, who was in the process of seeking sole custody of the boy.

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40-Year-Old Father and 9-Year-Old Son Found Dead in Marina District in Possible Murder-Suicide

The San Francisco Police Department is investigating a possible murder-suicide that occurred Wednesday afternoon in the Marina District.

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Despite Violent Year Around the Bay and the Nation, SF Is Set to Record Similar Homicide Rate to 2018

San Francisco's homicide count stands at 48 as we enter the waning hours of 2020, marking a slight uptick from the record-low number of killings in the city in 2019, but nearly on par with the count from two years ago.

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New Report Ranks How Much Bay Area Law Enforcement Agencies Pay For Violent Officer Misconduct

You would think that how much a city pays in police misconduct settlements would correlate to the size of its police force. Such is not the case, according to information obtained by KTVU.

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SF Police Chief and District Attorney Insist They're Not Enemies, Chief Says They Don't Always Agree

In a show of unity Wednesday on a live-streamed Zoom session, SF Police Chief Bill Scott and District Attorney Chesa Boudin discussed recent charging decisions implicating SF police officers, and the growing role of the DA's Independent Investigations Bureau.

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Burglaries, Arsons, and Car Thefts Are All Up Significantly in SF Over Last Year

Crime was expected to go down with shelter-in-place orders back at the beginning of the pandemic, and for a short time, it did. But in San Francisco, the nature of the crimes being committed most often may have shifted, but there's still plenty of bad stuff going on all over town.

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SFPD Releases 911 Audio and Body Camera Footage From Fisherman's Wharf Beating

Two days after the DA filed charges against an officer for an October 2019 baton beating of a domestic violence suspect, the SFPD has released audio from the 911 call that led to the officers' arrival at the scene, as well as body-worn camera footage from the incident.

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Attorney for SFPD Officer Charged In Beating Says DA 'Can't Get His Facts Straight'

The attorney representing a San Francisco Police officer whom District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged with assault and battery on Monday has shot back with a statement saying her client acted "lawfully" in the 2019 incident in question.

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Grand Jury Indicts Rookie SFPD Officer Over December 2019 Shooting of Jamaica Hampton

In the second instance of an SFPD officer facing charges stemming from an officer-involved shooting in just two weeks, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that a grand jury has returned an indictment of Officer Christopher Flores for the Dec. 2019 shooting of Jamaica Hampton.