Gaps in SFPD discipline ‘alarming’ to Police Commission
The San Francisco Police Commission raised major concerns about the police department’s...
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Light discipline for police misconduct is the norm in SF
One 45-day suspension was the most severe penalty paid by a San Francisco police officer over a...
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Officers who killed Mario Woods used ‘unnecessary force’ — but will face no discipline
The Department of Police Accountability has found that five officers who shot and killed Mario...
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Black Lives Matter marchers demand investment in public safety — not police
Some 300 Black Lives Matter demonstrators gathered at Mission High School Thursday evening to...
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Nurses demand sheriffs’ discharge from San Francisco General Hospital
A mob of nurses and doctors still dressed in their scrubs gathered in front of the Potrero Ave....
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Sean Monterrosa family files civil suit over police shooting
The family of Sean Monterrosa, the 22-year-old who was fatally shot by Vallejo police on June 2,...
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Health Department, citing disproportionate ER use-of-force on Black patients, may cut ties with Sheriff’s Deputies
Dr. Grant Colfax, the director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, today sent an...
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Samara Marion, ‘heart and soul of police reform,’ to retire from SF Department of Police Accountability
San Francisco’s government will lose one of its fiercest and most effective police reform...
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Philz employees allegedly fired for disputing police policies
When a former shift lead at the Mission location of Philz Coffee, Robert Thumas, saw an image that...
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San Francisco police stations to hang ‘Black Lives Matter’ posters — an idea the police union rejected
San Francisco police stations will soon display large “Black Lives Matter” posters, a move...
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San Francisco police budget hearing swamped by cavalcade of callers urging department’s defunding
As members of the Board of Supervisors and the police chief today discussed the SFPD budget during...
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SF police union threatens ‘aggressive’ legal action against Police Commission
The San Francisco Police Officers Association said Friday it was ready to “take the most...
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SF Police Commission draws a line in the sand over POA demands to meet and confer
At Wednesday night’s Police Commission meeting, a fiery public commenter told the commissioners...
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SF Police Commission: Racial bias statistics remain ‘disturbing’
Members of the San Francisco Police Commission say they’re unsettled by recent police...
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SFPD to explicitly ban officers from using their knees on the necks of civilians
The San Francisco Police Department is amending its use of force policy to explicitly bar officers...
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‘Taking too long’: What an SFPD policy for Deaf people says about police reform
In the summer of 2016, a 73-year-old Deaf woman suffering from dementia allegedly tried to pull...
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