SF News SFPD's 'Top Heavy And Expensive' Command Staff Salaries, By The Numbers When San Francisco Police Department Chief Bill Scott was sworn in last month, law-watchers assumed that (like any other new boss), we'd see a shakeup and departures in the current command staff. Contrary
SF News [Update] SFPD Set To Get New Chief Thursday As Feds Release Damning Review Of Department The newly hired chief of the SFPD may be announced as early as tomorrow (Thursday), and the announcement looks to be coming just in time for the release of a 400-page report on
SF News Firm That Recruited Ousted Oakland Police Chief Charging SF $49K To Find New SFPD Chief The national search process is beginning for a new chief of police for San Francisco, following a season of high tension and high drama on both sides of the bay for both the
SF News Ex-Police Chief Suhr Wanted To Quit Well Before Lee 'Asked For His Resignation' The resignation last week of (then) Police Chief Greg Suhr following an officer-involved shooting of a black woman in the Bayview was met with a wide array of responses. Supervisor Scott Wiener, for
SF News 15 Years Of Officer-Involved Shootings In SF, By The Numbers Greg Suhr, who resigned his position as the Chief of Police at the mayor's request last week, never fired his gun while on duty. That's common. The "vast majority" of San Francisco police
SF News Video From Last Year Shows New SF Police Chief Calling Out 'Cynicism' And 'Bias' Mayor Lee appointed 26-year department veteran and Deputy SFPD Chief Toney Chaplin to the position of Acting Chief of Police yesterday after requestng and receiving Chief Suhr's resignation, a decision made by the
SF News Local Leaders Respond To Ousting Of Former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr As reported yesterday, the shooting by a San Francisco Police Department sergeant of an unarmed African-American woman Thursday morning was the last straw for Mayor Ed Lee, who fired (let's call it what
SF News Mayor Fires Police Chief Following Another Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting Following Thursday morning's SFPD shooting of an apparently unarmed 27-year-old black woman in the Bayview, Mayor Ed Lee held a late-afternoon press conference to announce that earlier today he asked SFPD Chief Greg
SF News City Hall Surveillance Video Released In Effort To Identify Protesters City officials this week released surveillance video from a May 6 protest at City Hall in support of the Frisco Five. According to NBC Bay Area, at least some of those protesters caused
SF News [Update] Unarmed Female Suspect Fatally Shot By SFPD In Bayview At the scene of an SFPD-involved shooting at the corner of Shafter Avenue and Industrial Street. pic.twitter.com/PQAmitSA2u— Kevin Schultz (@KevinEdSchultz) May 19, 2016 A 27-year-old African American woman died this
SF News Chief Suhr Has 'No Intention' To Step Down, Says He's The Best Guy To Change Department “If we can have less of them,” Chief Suhr said of police shootings in an exclusive sit-down with the Chronicle, “it’s a good thing for everybody.” And, as the Department of Justice
SF News Pressure Mounts On SFPD Chief As Four Supervisors Call For His Resignation The chorus calling for the removal of San Francisco's chief of police gained several important voices this week, as now a total of four San Francisco Supervisors have made it known that Greg
SF News After Mayor Floats $17.5 Million Police Reform Package, Supes Grill Him, Some Call To Fire Suhr As part of his proposed two-year budget, Mayor Lee has suggested adding $17.5 million to the SFPD's budget with the goal of instituting reforms and reducing violence, the AP reports via KRON4.
SF News [Update] General Strike Begins With Morning Picket At City Hall Picketing starts at #SF city hall for #Frisco5 #Frisco500 #hungerforjusticesf genera strike pic.twitter.com/kgY4qv7LGU— Mission Local (@MLNow) May 9, 2016 A true general strike, the likes of which we haven't seen
SF News Lengthy, Angry Protest Breaks Out As Frisco Five Supporters Storm City Hall Friday Following the hospitalization Friday of the hunger strikers now known as the Frisco 5, a call went out on IndyBay to their supporters, whom some are calling the Frisco 500, for a vigil
SF News Hunger Strikers, The Frisco Five, Pack Up And Go To The Hospital Mission PD protesters packing up. They say #Frisco5 are at hospital. pic.twitter.com/cAZAufKwi0— Evan Sernoffsky (@EvanSernoffsky) May 6, 2016 Welp, some people wondered after yesterday's unproductive phone call with Mayor Lee
SF News Mayor Lee Has Phone Call With Hunger Striker And Little Is Accomplished San Francisco mayor speaks with hunger strikers by phone, stands by police chief and reform efforts https://t.co/4rP71mkCcM— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) May 5, 2016 Following on the political theater of
SF News SFPD Now Required To Carry Three-Foot Batons When Engaging With Homeless #Frisco5 march to San Francisco City Hall #HungerForJusticeSF #FireChiefSuhr #sfpd #sfmayor #sfbos #sfpolitics #MarioWoods #AlexNieto #AmilcarPerezLopez #LuisGongora #sanfrancisco #protest #stuffedanimal #police #bear A photo posted by Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) on May 3, 2016
SF News Chief Suhr Cancels Appearance At Police Accountability Forum Over Security Concerns After a march on City Hall yesterday led by five protestors only consuming liquid calories to demand his removal, Police Chief Greg Suhr reneged on a planned appearance with Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
SF News Cops Balk At New SFPD Mandate To Dust All Car Break-Ins For Prints With car break-ins hitting a five-year high this past summer in San Francisco, and our fair city having the highest per capita property crime rate in the US (something even the New York
SF News [Update] Hunger Strikers March To City Hall, In Wheelchairs, Interrupt Board Of Supervisors' Meeting The political theater on both sides continues today as five activists who have been on hunger strike outside Mission Police Station for nearly two weeks led a procession of protesters to City Hall
SF News SFPD Chief Touts 'Very Good Lead' In Infamous Hayes Valley Quadruple Homicide It's been almost a year since the San Francisco Police Department said that they knew who was responsible for an infamous Hayes Valley quadruple homicide, but were unable to pull together enough of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Carol Burnett Is Coming To Town! Supervisor Jane Kim and other city leaders are crying foul after it appears that UCSF fired a group of subcontracted, Chinese-speaking janitors who had worked for the hospital for years after they organized
SF News DA Gascon Denounces 'Old Boys' Club' In SFPD As Department Announces New Community-Oriented Bureau In an effort to restore trust in the San Francisco Police Department in the wake of the killing of Mario Woods, Police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee announced Monday that some
SF News SFPD To Finally Get Body Cameras Via Taser Contract It's been two years since SFPD chief Greg Suhr said that the beginning of the department's body camera program was just two weeks away, as KQED reports in the 2015 explantory video above.
