SF News Mother Of Mentally Ill Man Shot By Police Expresses Outrage At Town Hall Meeting The man shot and critically injured by SFPD officers during an altercation at his home last week turns out to have been suffering from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and his mother, a longtime
SF News Mayor Lee Picks Outsider For New SFPD Chief, Veteran LAPD Cop William Scott Mayor Ed Lee has chosen the next San Francisco Police Chief, and, to the surprise of many, the job will not go to current interim Chief Toney Chaplin. Instead, the Chronicle reports that
SF News In Signal To Interim SFPD Chief, Resolution Urging Permanent Chief To Live In The City Passes Unanimously Supervisor Norman Yee's non-binding resolution to "require" the San Francisco Police Chief to live in the city he or she serves has passed unanimously. A legislative aide to Yee reiterated to KRON 4
SF News Activists Push To Disqualify Chaplin As Police Commission Is Set To Pick Finalists For Chief Job Tensions mount as the San Francisco Police Commission prepares to announce its three to five finalist candidates for the city's new Chief of Police, which the Examiner says will likely be chosen at
SF News Ten Years After Castro Halloween Shooting, Spooked City Officials Still Tell Revelers To Stay Away It was ten years ago today that someone fired a gun into a crowd of Halloween revelers at the annual Castro block party, hitting nine people, with another person injured in the resulting
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 Police Commission Releases Some Info On SFPD Chief Applicants Sixty-one people want the job of chief of the San Francisco Police Department. Those 61, a number which includes current acting chief Toney Chaplin, have all applied for the role — submitting detailed applications
SF News As 60 Applicants Vie To Be Next SFPD Chief, Acting Chief Reveals Details Of His Educational Background Sixty people are in the running to become San Francisco's next chief of police, the Police Commission announced Thursday night, but persistent questions over the acting chief's educational background might end up putting
SF News Questions Raised As Interim Police Chief Refuses To Say Where He Went To College As San Francisco nears the end of its search for a police chief to replace ousted Greg Suhr, an interesting wrinkle has developed in current interim chief Toney Chaplin's attempt to get the
SF News SFPD's Acting Top Cop Says He Wants The Chief Job For Real Though rumors have swirled that acting San Francisco Police Department Chief Toney Chaplin would soon be offered the role permanently, Chaplin has demurred, saying that he hasn't even thought about the topic. That
SF News SFPD Starts Slow Deployment Of Body Cameras Following years of delay, we learn today via the Examiner that some SFPD officers are finally (finally!) being equipped with body-worn cameras. The cameras are popular both among advocates who hope they will
SF News Confusion At SF's Police Commission As Police Chief Help Wanted Ad Goes Up And Down Though the "help wanted" ad posted for the position of chief of San Francisco's Police Department was taken down this week, it's removal isn't, as some have speculated, because acting chief Toney Chaplin
SF News Video: Acting SFPD Chief Toney Chaplin Talks About His First 60 Days, And Whether He Wants The Permanent Job The embattled San Francisco Police Department though right now less embattled than the Oakland Police Department is being helmed by former Deputy Chief Toney Chaplin, and ABC 7's Vic Lee sat down with
SF News Outer Sunset Man Named As Alleged Twitter Troll Seeking Beheading Of SFPD's Acting Chief An Outer Sunset man was taken into custody Tuesday, after police say he was responsible for a tweet calling for the beheading of acting San Francisco Police department Chief Toney Chaplin. It was
SF News SFPD Investigating Death Threat Against Acting Police Chief A death threat made on Twitter against Acting SFPD Chief Toney Chaplin is being investigated by authorities. "We are still gathering evidence and conducting interviews in preparation of presenting the case to the
SF News SFPD's Acting Chief Suspends Community Meetings On Police Shootings, Declaring Them 'Unproductive And Disruptive' "Can Toney Chaplin Change the Culture of SF Police?" asked SF Weekly earlier this week, and now we know the answer: Yes, if you're talking about the way they engage with the community
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
