Author: kbenz

A serendipitous life

Jun 25, 2018 | People We Meet

David Kasprzak inside his pop-up shop, “Colpa Books and Video,” on Mission St. David...

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SFPD stations offer few places to sit and not much information

Feb 13, 2018 | Bayview Station, Central Station, Command Staff, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Ingleside Station, Mission Station, Mobile, Newsletter, Northern Station, Park Station, Police Commission, Richmond Station, Southern Station, Tenderloin Station, Today's Mission

What happens at a police station? Or, here’s a better question: what should happen there? If you...

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Sgt. Herb Lee, SFPD’s first Chinese American officer, is remembered fondly after his death

Dec 23, 2017 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile

It was a family trip to Chinatown that Ricky Lee would never forget. The family was packed into...

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Linea Caffe’s limited seating is about to become more limited

Dec 13, 2017 | Business, Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Linea Caffe on 18th St. and San Carlos St. promises “the world’s finest coffee” for the Mission,...

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Officials discuss officer-involved shooting in the Castro with residents

Nov 8, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Some 50 residents attended Wednesday night’s town hall meeting in the Castro to hear from the...

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Help over handcuffs: BART police officers see promise in new drug diversion program

Nov 8, 2017 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mission Station, Mobile, Tenderloin Station, Today's Mission

The BART police officers said Noah, a homeless resident, might be hard to look at when we found...

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Guns, ammo stolen from San Mateo Sheriff’s deputy’s car in Tenderloin

Nov 6, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble

While sheriff deputies gathered inside City Hall Friday night for a rowdy and lengthy Police...

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Halloween no holiday for SF cops, but they get in the spirit anyway

Nov 1, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Bo Kovitz wrote this post with contributions from the other reporters.  Halloween wasn’t exactly a...

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Cost of Tasers concerns some; who will pay remains a mystery

Oct 27, 2017 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Covering the Police is a collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. As...

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SF Coffee with a Cop yields casual chatter, questions about homicides

Oct 6, 2017 | Central Station, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mission Station, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Officers Viet Ha and Joseph Dal Porto were prepared to have coffee with the residents of the...

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SF’s Dolores Park Cafe celebrates 20 years in a changing Mission

Oct 5, 2017 | Business, Dolores Park, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

The sights, smells, sounds and tastes at Dolores Park Cafe are familiar to locals. That is because...

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