SF News Lurie Names Longtime SFPD Veteran Derrick Lew as New San Francisco Police Chief A San Francisco native and 22-year veteran of the SF Police Department, SFPD Deputy Chief Derrick Lew has just been named the permanent new SF Police Chief. And, interestingly, he was once shot by London Breed’s cousin.
SF News Man Found Shot on Sixth Street Dies From Gunshot Wounds San Francisco Police officers patrolling the South of Market neighborhood early Sunday morning found a man in the road suffering from gunshot wounds. He died at the scene, and the case is being investigated as a homicide.
SF News Person Dies Following Home Burglary in SF’s Ingleside, Police Are Calling It a Homicide When the SFPD responded to reports of a home burglary in SF’s Ingleside neighborhood Sunday, they found an adult victim suffering from undisclosed injuries. The person later died, and police are now investigating the case as a homicide.
SF News SFPD Raid Yielded 86 Arrests But Only One Drug-Dealing Charge, and That Person Was Just Found Not Guilty A very anticlimactic ending to that much-ballyhooed February SFPD raid of Jefferson Square Park where 86 people were arrested: Only one suspect actually faced felony drug charges, and he was just acquitted of those charges.
SF News Unprovoked Dog Bite Leads to Officer-Involved Shooting of Man, Dog in SF’s Union Square A confrontation near O’Farrell and Market streets between the SFPD and a homeless man, whose large, off-leash dog allegedly bit a bystander in an unprovoked attack, led to one of the officers shooting both the man and dog in the legs.
SF News Shots Fired During Fight Near Outer Richmond Safeway, Five Injured, Including One Critically A little before 9 pm Saturday night, gunfire erupted when a fight broke out between a group of people near the Safeway supermarket at Fulton and La Playa streets in SF’s Outer Richmond neighborhood. At least five people were injured, including one critically.
SF News SFPD Arrests 19-Year-Old Suspect in Last Week’s Golden Gate Park Sexual Assault of a Child Not a moment too soon for SF parents whose kids are heading out trick-or-treating tonight, SFPD has arrested a 19-year-old in the case of a girl who was dragged into a bathroom and sexually assaulted at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field.
SF News SFPD Royally Pisses Off Other Police Departments With Hiring Billboard Right In Their Parking Lots The SFPD is making no friends among the top brass of other Bay Area police departments, with their LED mobile billboard going right into other departments’ parking lots offering their cops higher pay to jump ship.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Salesforce's Marc Benioff Wants to Bring National Guard to SF, ‘Re-Fund’ SFPD The South Lake Tahoe church where Mayor Tamara Wallace embezzled funds said they caught her in the act; Two Gilroy elementary schools have encountered copper wire theft in the past month; and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff mistakenly thought SFPD was defunded at some point.
SF News One Killed, Two Critically Injured In Separate Hit-and-Run Collisions In San Francisco On Friday, two people were struck and seriously injured in a hit-and-run in the Upper Haight; and less than 5 hours later, a separate hit-and-run took one pedestrian's life in Bernal Heights.
SF News That Huge, Bulky SFPD Cop Bus Is No Longer Sitting at 16th and Mission Streets After six and a half months of sitting there and trying to look intimidating, the SFPD’s giant, RV-style “mobile command unit” has been removed from the corner of 16th and Mission streets as the SFPD shifts gears on cleaning up that corner.
SF News Fired SFPD Nonprofit Leader, Under Investigation for Embezzling $100K, Sues for Her Final Paychecks A new Hall of Fame entry in the annals of chutzpah, as the former director of an SFPD-affiliated nonprofit who’s under indictment for embezzling $100 grand has sued the nonprofit for $26,000 in back pay she claims they still owe her.
SF News Family of Deceased SFPD Recruit Orders Second Autopsy, Hires Lawyer Who Won Cases Against LAPD The family of Jon-Marques Psalms is ordering a second autopsy after the medical examiner’s report confirmed he died as a result of a high-intensity training exercise at the SF Police Academy. The family’s attorney says Psalms was tackled and disarmed by an opponent wearing a padded “RedMan” suit.
SF News SFPD Shoots Man With 'Edged Weapon' on 101 Near Cesar Chavez, Traffic Expected to Be Snarled for a While An unidentified pedestrian was walking on 101 Thursday morning, and was shot by an SFPD officer after allegedly threatening officers with an “edged weapon.” The man survived, but northbound traffic on 101 remained a mess for much of Thursday afternoon.
SF News Dangerous High-Speed Chase Through SF Ends With Suspect Jumping Into the Bay A San Francisco man who was wanted for a violent felony in Southern California was spotted by police in the Tenderloin Tuesday, and a potentially disastrous high-speed chase ensued.
SF News 30-Year-Old SFPD Recruit Dies From Medical Emergency During Training Exercise The SFPD is mourning the loss of 30-year-old cadet Jon-Marques Psalms, who suffered a medical emergency during a training exercise last week, and died on Friday. He was honored with a Monday procession.
SF News Saturday Links: Radioactive Shrimp Recall Widens to California, Several Brands Affected An SFPD recruit died two days after suffering a medical emergency during a training session; a small sinkhole ruined some drivers’ days near Golden Gate Park; and the radioactive shrimp recall now includes California.
SF News Suspect Charged In 10-Year-Old Bayview Drive-By Shooting Case That Killed Two Including Innocent Bystander A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a cold-case double-homicide that occurred in January 2015 in San Francisco's Bayview District which took the life of a mother of three who was standing outside her home.
SF News Man Found Guilty of Tackling, Punching, Trying to Steal the Firearm of SFPD Officer at UN Plaza A pretty brazen 1 am attack on an on-duty SFPD officer has drawn the exact response you’d expect, and a 31-year-old man is looking at likely serious jail time after being found guilty of three counts of threatening and battering an officer.
SF News Of Course the SFPD Busted a Guy Outside Dead & Company Show With 100 Nitrous Oxide Tanks Dead & Company fans missed out on some extra party favors this weekend after San Francisco police say they caught a Philadelphia man with about 100 nitrous oxide tanks and balloons near Golden Gate Park Saturday night.
SF News Uzi-Style Machine Gun Found In Bay By SFPD Dive Team San Francisco Police Department divers were able to recover an Uzi-style automatic rifle from the Bay waters on Tuesday.
SF News Saturday Links: Nurses, Parents Protest Kaiser’s Pause on Trans Youth Surgical Care The Safeway strike deadline has been extended; ICE detained all the adults at SF immigration court without children on Friday; and Kaiser staff rallied in SF on Friday over the company's recent pause on gender-affirming care for youth.
SF News Video: Nutty Robbery Suspect Driver Dashes Wrong Way on Bay Bridge in July 4 Melee An alleged July 4 robbery in SF led to some fleeing suspects evading police, and SFPD just released wild drone video of the suspects trying to get away by driving the wrong direction across the Bay Bridge into oncoming traffic.
SF News SFPD Touts 97 Arrests In One Day, In What They Call a ‘Fugitive Enforcement Operation’ The SF Police Department is claiming a major victory against the street drug trade, saying they made 97 arrests Wednesday and insisting they caught a large number of “fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants.”
SF News Sunday Links: Top SF Law Enforcement Official Arrested, Under Investigation for Hit-and-Run Six people are dead and two missing after a 27-foot boat capsized during a storm on Lake Tahoe; a motorcyclist who taunted CHP during a high-speed chase was arrested in Berkeley; and a high-ranking SF Sheriff’s official was arrested for hit-and-run.
