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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

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

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

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

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

I'm Elected Electric Spy, I'm Protected Electric Eye

By a 5-0 vote, the Police Commission last night voted to install twenty five of those anti-crime cameras throughout the Mission, SoMa, and the Tenderloin. As expected, last night's hearing was pretty heated

More on the Yale Choir Story

The major source of controversy stems from the police response. According to the Chron, the police went to go check it out but deemed it not that much in a way of a

SFist Blotter (Wednesday Edition)

So many crime stories of note today that we're running an off-cycle SFist Blotter! A casual carpool driver from Hercules was carjacked this morning. She picked up the usual crew of city-bound commuters

The Yale Choir Story, Again

First up, the cops. After the fracas, they detained four of the assailants but let them go. As of right now, nobody has been arrested as police are saying they're still collecting evidence.

New Year's Bash

The facts appear to be these: The Baker's Dozen, an all-male (but not exclusively gay) chorus from Yale was asked to perform at the house of Reno Rapagnani, a retired SFPD officer and

Gavin Vetoes Foot Patrol Legislation Part II

Gavin's main bone of contention is that he thinks the police chiefs should get discretion to do what they want to do. The Board of Supes main bone of contention is they've had

Bad Cops: No Doughnuts

Now the SFPD is claiming the reason for coming under the hoped-for number is because they have too many cases to solve. And by too many cases, we mean so far there's been

SFPD's Funniest Home Videos

All of this isn't going down with at least some measure of controversy. Police Commissioner Joe Alioto Veronese complained that it took almost a year for the investigation to take place. After all,

San Francisco Family Missing

James and Kati Kim, along with their two daughters Sabine and Penelope, drove to Seattle to spend Thanksgiving with James's family. The Kims were scheduled to be in southern Oregon last Saturday night,

Gary Delagnes In The News

Man, the San Francisco Police Officers' Association president Gary Delagnes is all over the news these days! We're setting up a Google News Alert for Delagnes even as we speak! --On Heather Fong's

Today In the Board of Supervisors: the Results Are In

Pot decriminalization: Passed the bill and pass the roach. Styrofoam in restaurants: Buh-bye Foot patrols: Better luck next time, Gavin. Phew. Big winners? Dope Smokers! Big losers: Gavin, the SFPD, the POA and

Not a Good Way to Start the Day

The editorial, predominately displayed on the Examiner's getting-better-but still crappy web site basically says that Gavin hasn't even begun to make this city safe enough and probably never will due to problems he's

Seven Shot At Halloween In The Castro

Update: 11/1, 11:45 a.m. Alix Rosenthal is holding a press conference at 2:00 p.m. today at Harvey Milk Plaza (the main entrance of the MUNI stop at Market

Political Junkie: Hair Of The Mayor That Bit You

Yes, folks, it's true -- the floppy-haired Matt Gonzalez look sported by Mayor Gavin Newsom was for one day only. Awwwwwww! We're back to the swept-back, visible-comb-lines-through-the-front (scroll down), crunchy-gelled 'do you all

But Do You Get to Carry a Whip?

Today's story about Oakland having trouble recruiting cops brings to mind a story that ran in last Sunday's Chron about the SFPD having trouble recruiting cops. How desperate are they? They set up

Arts & Entertainment

BNE: Wanted Dead or Alive

See, there's this graffiti artist whose been putting the initials BNE in at least five cities throughout the world. In every way, shape, or fashion. Nobody knows who he is or even where

News Items Too Long To Be Summarized For Day Around The Bay

We try to keep our new feature Day Around The Bay pretty short -- so these three longer items we found in our relentless scouring of local news sources have been relegated to

Tragic End To The Missing Baby Story

For those of you who thought something about this case didn't sound right, consider yourselves vindicated: the father is now considered the main suspect in the murder. (We knew those Mission hipsters going

Hit-and-Run Driver, Day 2

The police are continuing their investigation of Ohmeed Popal and his deadly series of hit-and-run accidents in Fremont and San Francisco yesterday. Here's the latest: The Chron's put together a chronology of events: