SF News Former SF Police Chief Heather Fong Shortlisted For Border Control Job; Texas Governor Promises 'Revolt' If She Gets It Onetime San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong, who's lately been serving as Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement in the Department of Homeland Security, is apparently on a short list of
SF News SFPD Videogate's 'Cops Gone Wild' Released ABC 7's Dan Noyes posted the entire “Cops Gone Wild” video, that’s the center of the SFPD videogate scandal. Noyes reports, "Officer Andrew Cohen produced the documentary in 2005 with the approval
SF News Quote du Jour: Heather Fong Is Rich Coming to you from dynamic duo Matier Ross, our favorite platonic couple have word on what retiring San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong will pull in annually after she vacates her position. Ahem:
SF News SF Police Commission to Hold Public Hearing for New Chief Pretending it will make a difference, the SF Police Commission will give San Franciscans the chance to voice their feelings on what they want from their newest, yet-to-be-announced Chief of Police. San Francisco
SF News SFPD Chief Heather Fong Calls it Quits Just as Mayor Gavin Newsom jump starts efforts to get the hell out of San Francisco, Police Chief Heather Fong announced her retirement. The big news came on Saturday on the Newsom's All-Star
misc Glen Park to Heather Fong: SOS A description of the crime was posted on the Glen Park Bulletin Board written by Elizabeth Weise of Glen Park News. Robbers stabbed Paul Park, the owner of Buddy's Market at about 11
SF News To Help Curb Violence, Newsom Proposes Nightclub Reform With nightclubs like Jelly's, Whisper, and 715 Harrison playing host to fatal mischief over the past few months, yesterday Mayor Newsom and Police Chief Heather Fong went on the offense against SF nightlife.
misc Have a Happy Year of the Rat -- Tết Festival in Little Saigon As far as the trend of naming smaller neighborhoods in San Francisco goes, Little Saigon (sandwiched between Civic Center and the Tenderloin) sounds pretty good. Anyway, it's a lot better than the name
SF News Tiger Victim a Hero? Fong also clarified that there was indeed no shoe found inside the waist-high fence that is intended to keep visitors and tigers from interacting. However, a shoe print that was found on the
SF News 'VideoGate' Officer Andrew Cohen Responds To Critics With A 'Call To Arms' SFist recieved two missives from Officer Andrew Cohen, who is best known for being the focal point of the so-called "VideoGate" scandal. As with his responses in our recent interview with him, we
Arts & Entertainment 'VideoGate' Officer Andrew Cohen Doesn't Hold Back Officer Andrew Cohen made headlines in recent years for the videos he produced spoofing the SFPD. The videos were intended to be a humorous sendoff to former police captain Rick Bruce and poke
SF News Video Killed the Radio Star Sherman, set the way-back machine to when the Cops Gone Wild video came out. Seems like the issue has reared it's ugly head again and another twist in the story has appeared. Dan
Arts & Entertainment We Didn't Get 'Wicked Pissed', But We Still Got A Little Aqua Teen Cash So, Beantown sorta flips out a few months back (not that we blame them!) at little lite-brite signs depicting Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters flipping the general populace off. City grinds to a
SF News No Cameras Allowed Near The Security Camera--But At Least We've Got One You may recall our presence at a lower Haight neighborhood meeting back in January after a spate of gun violence galvanized the area and turned out hundreds of folks along with news cams
SF News Immigrant Song What's been happening is the INS has been cracking down on immigrants throughout the Bay Area. It seems to be really willy-nilly to as they've been pretty much sweeping people up in nets
SF News Doing Something About the Violence As a result, people in the neighborhood are in full "mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore" mode and organizing. Their request? Send cards, letters, and e-mails to Gavin,
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 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
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 And Now...More Gleegate You can read the whole thing (it's pretty good), but there are several points to be had in the piece. -There was booze at the party but people brought it with them-- it
SF News Who's Defending Newsom Now! As promised -- when we find people defending Newsom, we diligently write 'em up in the column we call.... Who's Defending Newsom Now! Who's swinging for the mayor? --The mayor himself!: Before heading
SF News The Yale Choral Group Story At Yale First the good news. In the grand tradition of show biz, the show went on and the choir group was able to continue on in their West Coast tour. That's why they were
SF News Other Things That Happened Today Sorry, we've become so obsessed with the upcoming Fake Question Time and those Yalie a capella singers that got beaten up that we totally didn't cover any of the other city news from
SF News Who's Newsom Attacking Now! It's a slight variation on our Who's Attacking/Defending Newsom Now columns -- Gavin goes on the offensive! The gay-focused Bay Area Reporter runs a column this week in their Political Notebook about
SF News 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
