SF News Attorney for Man Shot In Outer Sunset Police Confrontation Disputes Claim That He Shot Himself A man who was injured by a gunshot wound during an encounter with San Francisco police officers earlier this month didn't fire a single shot, his attorney argues, and police are trying to save face.
SF News Reported SF Car Break-Ins Are at a 22-Year Low, According to SFPD Data It seems all these drones, license plate readers, and ‘bait cars’ might be doing the trick on stopping a notorious SF crime, as car break-ins were down 50% in 2024 compared to the previous year, and at the lowest level the city has seen since 2003.
SF News Last Week’s Big 40-Arrest Raid at Market and Van Ness Produced Exactly Zero Criminal Charges A much-publicized March 19 drug bust at Market and Van Ness got plenty of headlines for resulting in 40 arrests, but in a much-less reported development, absolutely none of the people arrested will face any criminal charges.
SF News SFPD and Sheriff's Deputies Do Another Drug Sweep, This Time at Van Ness and Market The Whac-a-Mole games continued Wednesday night with another law enforcement sweep and mass arrest on San Francisco's Mid-Market Street, resulting in 40 more drug users and/or dealers arrested.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Mobile Command Van Shifts to 16th & Mission The SFPD has moved its Mobile Command Unit No. 2 from Civic Center to 16th & Mission; staff at SF's regional Dept. of Education office for civil rights enforcement was locked out today; and a $20K reward is being offered in a case of a sea lion beheading in Bodega Bay.
SF News SFPD Shoots Outer Sunset Man Who Fired Gun And Aimed At Officers, Police Drone An Outer Sunset man wielding a gun and threatening neighbors near Golden Gate Park yesterday afternoon was shot by police after he reportedly fired at least one shot and aimed the gun at an SFPD drone and then later police officers.
SF News Another Spot Where the Drug Scene Moved, Jefferson Square Park, Gets Raided By SFPD Overnight In addition to shuffling the drug users to parts of the Mission District, the city's efforts to "clean up" Sixth Street and parts of the Tenderloin also just shuffled a crowd of users over to Jefferson Square Park on Cathedral Hill. And the park was just the subject of a large-scale raid by police.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Man Convicted Of Imprisoning 74-Year-Old Woman For Two Years An Oakland man was convicted of imprisoning his dead mom's friend; the Trump administration is considering a Northern California military site for one of its detention centers; and Luigi Mangione appeared in court day, along with a gaggle of supporters.
SF News SFPD Is Not At All Happy That People Are Stealing SFPUC Utility Covers Off SF Sidewalks The SF Public Utilities Commission says that more than 400 utility covers have been stolen off San Francisco sidewalks over the last two years, and the police department is urging residents to tattle on anyone they see doing this.
SF News One Still Missing After Falling Into Pier 32 Saturday, While Surfer Rescued Monday After Board Broke A busy couple of days for the SFPD and Fire Department’s marine units, as two people fell into the water at Pier 32 Saturday and only one of them has been found, and then on Monday, crews had to rescue a surfer in distress near Fort Point.
SF News SF Supervisor Jackie Fielder Asks SFPD For Answers About Chase That Led to Sunday's Crash One new SF supervisor is pressing the SFPD for answers about the latest example that left seven people injured.
SF News Mayor Lurie Launches SFPD ‘Hospitality Task Force’ to Bolster Union Square Ahead of All-Star Game, Lunar New Year While this new SFPD ‘Hospitality Task Force’ arrives the weekend before the double-team of the NBA All-Star Game and the Chinese New Year Parade, the reconfigured police staffing will be in effect year-round in the Union Square tourism district.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Gets His ‘Fentanyl Emergency Ordinance’ Passed In Landslide Board Vote Mayor Lurie won a huge expansion of his powers to combat fentanyl markets and homelessness, as the Board of Supervisors approved his so-called “emergency ordinance,” which now involves a pop-up police station at the long-debated SoMa Nordstrom parking lot.
SF News SFPD Honors Officer Who Identified Luigi Mangione During Nationwide Manhunt San Francisco police Sergeant Michael Horan was honored at City Hall Wednesday as part of an Officer of the Month ceremony, but he bears the distinction of helping crack a case that made international headlines last month.
SF News SFPD Busts Yet Another Underground Tenderloin Gambling Den and ‘Drug House,’ Four Arrested Three Tenderloin businesses on Ellis and Jones streets were raided Tuesday as suspected gambling dens, as SFPD seized several gambling machines, $30,000 in cash, and a fair amount of meth and illegal sedatives.
SF News Parents Want Man Arrested Who Has Allegedly Been Exposing Himself to Schoolchildren In the Castro Some parents of children who attend school in the Castro neighborhood say that a man who may be a registered sex offender has been oiling himself up and repeatedly exposing himself to teen girls in the neighborhood.
SF News Update: SFPD Vehicle Crashes Into Building During Portola Car Chase, Two Officers and Two Suspects Injured An early morning SFPD car chase in Portola at about 3:40 am Monday ended when the suspect car and an SFPD SUV both crashed into a building at San Bruno and Paul avenues, sending two officers and two suspects to the hospital.
SF News SFPD Refuses to Say Where They've Placed Those 400 Automated License Plate Readers All Over Town The new armada of automated license plate readers in SF are taking three million surveillance photos every day, but the SF Police Department is being cagey about disclosing where the hundreds of cameras are located.
SF News Security Guard Appeared to Pull Gun on Officers In SFPD Bodycam Footage of Union Square Incident The security guard whom SFPD officers fatally shot in a bizarre incident two weeks ago appeared to pull a gun and move to aim it at officers as they were attempting to detain him, as seen in bodycam footage.
SF News SF Police Shoot and Kill Man Identified as Union Square Security Guard A hit-and-run incident on a sidewalk in Union Square Thursday evening was followed, hours later, by a confrontation with San Francisco police that left the driver in the alleged hit-and-run dead.
SF News Scathing SFPD Audit Finds Rampant Abuse of Police Overtime Charges The SF Police Department is now spending $108 million a year on overtime pay alone, with wild and potentially fraudulent abuse of paid sick leave, officers approving their own overtime, and some taking paid time off to moonlight as security guards.
SF News SF Robbery Suspect Crashes Car Evading Police, Leaps 40 Feet From Overpass, Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries After an alleged three-robbery bender, a suspect evading SFPD totaled his car in a crash, lept 40 feet from a 101 overpass, and injured himself severely before being arrested and hospitalized.
SF News [Update] Dogs on the Loose Create Chaos In Fillmore District After Biting Two People An apparently vicious dog was shot by police in the Fillmore District and led to an alert from the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management Friday morning due to other dogs on the loose.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Seizes Four Pounds of Fentanyl In Bust As part of a bust Tuesday, SFPD made three arrests and seized a pile of suspected fentanyl; the fight over Oakland Airport's new name heads to court today; and Elon Musk got $26 billion richer yesterday thanks to the stock rally.
SF News Bay Area Law Enforcement Gearing Up for Possible Election Night, Post-Election Mayhem Whether it's celebratory riots, large-scale protests, or opportunistic criminals looking to loot because police might otherwise be distracted, Bay Area police departments are bracing for possible crime and bedlam on Election Night or later this week.
