SFPD stations offer few places to sit and not much information
What happens at a police station? Or, here’s a better question: what should happen there? If you walked into most of the 10 district stations...
Kaitlin Benz
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Stories by Kaitlin
Sgt. Herb Lee, SFPD’s first Chinese American officer, is remembered fondly after his death
By Kaitlin Benz Posted
It was a family trip to Chinatown that Ricky Lee would never forget. The family was packed into the car, driving through Chinatown when his...
Linea Caffe’s limited seating is about to become more limited
By Kaitlin Benz Posted
Linea Caffe on 18th St. and San Carlos St. promises “the world’s finest coffee” for the Mission, but it has also gotten into a bit...
Officials discuss officer-involved shooting in the Castro with residents
By Kaitlin Benz Posted
Some 50 residents attended Wednesday night’s town hall meeting in the Castro to hear from the officers and officials investigating the Halloween night officer-involved shooting...
Help over handcuffs: BART police officers see promise in new drug diversion program
By Kaitlin Benz Posted
The BART police officers said Noah, a homeless resident, might be hard to look at when we found him. They knew from his mother that...
Guns, ammo stolen from San Mateo Sheriff’s deputy’s car in Tenderloin
By Kaitlin Benz Posted
While sheriff deputies gathered inside City Hall Friday night for a rowdy and lengthy Police Commission meeting that ended in the seven members approving a...
Halloween no holiday for SF cops, but they get in the spirit anyway
By Bo Kovitz, Carlos Mureithi, Kaitlin Benz, Emma Schwartz, J.P. Dobrin, Susie Neilson and Nikka Singh Posted
Bo Kovitz wrote this post with contributions from the other reporters. Halloween wasn’t exactly a holiday for San Francisco police officers. Early in the day,...
Cost of Tasers concerns some; who will pay remains a mystery
By Kaitlin Benz Posted
Covering the Police is a collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. As the San Francisco Police Commission considers arming the city’s 1,795 full-duty officers...
SF Coffee with a Cop yields casual chatter, questions about homicides
By Kaitlin Benz, Marian Carrasquero, Susie Neilson and Julian Mark Posted
Officers Viet Ha and Joseph Dal Porto were prepared to have coffee with the residents of the Tenderloin who wandered into the Peet’s on Market...
SF’s Dolores Park Cafe celebrates 20 years in a changing Mission
By Kaitlin Benz Posted
The sights, smells, sounds and tastes at Dolores Park Cafe are familiar to locals. That is because it was one of the first neighborhood cafes...
