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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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.
misc 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
SF News 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
