SF News Shooting at Market and McAllister Gravely Injures One Man; SFPD Says to Avoid the Area An investigation is ongoing into a Thursday morning shooting near the intersection of Market and McAllister streets in San Francisco, and police are advising the public to avoid the area.
SF News SFPD On Track to Seize Four Times More Fentanyl This Year Than Last, But It May Make Little Impact on Supply A UCSF expert says that interrupting the supply chain for illegal fentanyl, most of which comes out of Mexico, is far more difficult than just busting dealers and seizing their inventory.
SF Politics San Francisco Plans to Flood Mid-Market and Tenderloin With Cops and Community Ambassadors In Response to Chaos With financial help from UC Hastings — who last year sued the city over the homeless problem in the neighborhood — San Francisco is launching a new initiative aimed at taming the chaos and open-air drug market of the Tenderloin and Mid-Market.
SF News Tenderloin Police Seized Four Times as Much Fentanyl From the Streets In 2020 As In 2019 You may have heard this grim statistic already: 713 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2020, mostly from fentanyl, and that's nearly triple the number of people who died from COVID here last year.
SF News Woman Shot In Tenderloin In Altercation With Four Young Female Suspects A 46-year-old woman was shot and injured Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco following an altercation with four teenage girls.
SF News Five Injured in Saturday Night Tenderloin Shooting A Saturday evening shooting at Eddy and Taylor streets injured five individuals, none of whose injuries appear to be life-threatening; SF police have yet to make it clear if any arrests in connection to the shooting have been made.
SF News Suspect Crashes Stolen Car at Van Ness and Market, Gets Arrested One person was arrested Monday morning after a dramatic hit-and-run crash on mid-Market in San Francisco in which, apparently, no one was hurt.
SF News San Francisco's First Homicide of 2021 Is Man Shot In Tenderloin The San Francisco Police Department is investigating a homicide that occurred Thursday night in the Tenderloin, in which a 37-year-old man was shot.
SF News SFMTA Mulling a 20-MPH Speed Limit for the Entire Tenderloin Neighborhood The state usually sets speed limits, but the SFMTA has found a loophole by which they can lower the speed limit on many Tenderloin streets.
SF News Tenderloin Suspect Racks Up 13th Vehicle Theft Arrest in Just 18 Months In what must be a record run, the SFPD Tenderloin unit this week arrested a suspect for their 13th vehicle theft in a mere year and a half.
SF News Non-Police ‘Street Crisis Response Team’ Launches Today in Tenderloin It’s sort of like “Care Not Cops,” as the hopefully less escalatory Street Crisis Response Team starts its Mental Health SF pilot program today for non-violent incident response.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feds Charge Tenderloin Drug Dealer In Fentanyl Death Air quality is going to decline fast over the Bay Area Wednesday night into Thursday, the Zogg Fire has claimed a fourth life, and the SFPD made two arrests in separate stabbings on Tuesday.
SF News 75-Year-Old Man Receives Life-Threatening Injuries From Metal Bar Attack In Tenderloin A 75-year-old man was assaulted Friday morning in San Francisco and left with life-threatening injuries, and police say they have arrested a 34-year-old Oakland man in the attack.
SF News UC Hastings Proves That If You Want Homeless Moved Off the Streets in SF (During the Pandemic), You Should Sue The effort that began two weeks ago to move hundreds of homeless tent-dwellers off the sidewalks of the Tenderloin has succeeded in relocating at least 388 people — thanks to threats of legal action by UC Hastings.
SF News Shooting of 30-Year-Old Woman Adds to Violent Week In the Tenderloin A 30-year-old woman was injured by multiple gunshot wounds Thursday evening in the Tenderloin, and the incident adds to an already violent week in the neighborhood.
SF News Five People Wounded in Tenderloin Drive-By Shooting San Francisco police were investigating a shooting that occurred sometime just after 3 p.m. on Monday on Leavenworth Street between Turk and Eddy, in the Tenderloin.
SF News Homeless Moved Into Hotels In Coordinated City Operation In the Tenderloin SF's Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) and the Department of Public Works were approaching about a dozen homeless people on the streets of the Tenderloin on Thursday, and offering them shuttle bus rides to a nearby hotel.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Tenderloin Dive Aunt Charlie's Saved By Crowdfunding A crowdfunding campaign that set out to raise $100,000 last week to save Aunt Charlie's Lounge succeeded in reaching its goal within just a week, and on Monday there was a socially distant drag show on the sidewalk outside to celebrate.
SF News Tenderloin’s ‘Safe Sleeping Village’ Has Been Opened, Though Allows But 50 Tents The Safe Sleeping Village at Civic Center opened Monday, and we have a few reports on its first three days of operations.
SF Politics UC Hastings Blasts Breed’s Plan to Clean Up COVID-19 Ravaged Tenderloin Leave it to the law school to sue the city, and even though the mayor specifically crafted a plan to mollify their desire to see the crowded sidewalks more clear, UC Hastings is keeping the heat on.
SF News SF Launches New Plan To Address Tenderloin Homeless, Relocate Tents "Some people say the city’s not doing anything around homelessness — but now you can see how much we were doing," says San Francisco's former homeless czar Jeff Kositsky, who's now taken charge of the city's program to tackle tent encampments.
SF News Alleged Drug Dealer Arrested in the Tenderloin For Violating Shelter-in-Place Orders, Selling Drugs A 20-year-old Oakland man was arrested by SFPD officers on Saturday night both for violating local sheltering orders and for being in possession of a bunch of drugs for sale.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Tenderloin Museum and the Roxie Present 'Gay San Francisco' Online Screening Tuesday evening, the Tenderloin Museum is presenting a screening of an underground documentary, shot on 16mm film, that captures some of crazier and most rarely seen images from real-life queer San Francisco in the late 1960s.
SF News Knife-Wielding Man Reportedly Barricaded In Glide Memorial Church After Police Shoot At Him An SFPD officer reportedly shot at a suspect wielding a knife on Ellis Street in the Tenderloin early Tuesday morning, and the suspect remained barricaded in a building — apparently Glide Memorial Church — as of Tuesday afternoon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tenderloin Sees Uptick In Break-Ins, Vandalism During Lockdown Mayor Breed announces new tenant protections, Democrats may be nearing a deal with the White House for a stimulus package, and Kaiser Permanente has canceled plans for a huge new headquarters complex in Oakland in a blow to the local economy.
