No charges for Joshua Cabillo, SFPD officer who shot fleeing man on a crowded street
An officer who shot an armed, fleeing man in the back on a San Francisco street crowded with...
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Covering the Police
SF police misconduct records remain elusive, despite transparency law
Wording issues within California’s new police transparency law could allow a large portion of San...
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Rape survivor petitions U.S. Supreme Court to take up her case vs. San Francisco
Rape kit sat, “untested and unprocessed, first on a shelf and then in a storage facility for...
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Supes short-circuit SFPD’s latest attempt to arm officers with Tasers
San Francisco Police Department officers will not be using Tasers, at least not for another year....
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SF police shootings are down — way down. Why is the SFPD still asking for Tasers?
Seconds before the November, 2017, vote to arm the San Francisco Police Department with Tasers,...
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San Francisco Police Department cites progress in mental health crisis interventions
For years, community members and advocacy groups have pushed the San Francisco Police Department...
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The San Francisco District Attorney is now the lead investigator of police shootings
The next time a San Francisco police officer shoots somebody, the San Francisco District Attorney...
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The SFPD has taken more than two years to complete 11 reforms. It has one year to complete 261 more.
After some 30 months, the San Francisco Police Department has completed a mere 4 percent of the...
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African American SFPD captain sues San Francisco, alleging campaign of racial discrimination and harassment
Citing a yearslong campaign of harassment and discrimination and a series of attempts to undermine...
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SFPD Chief Bill Scott does about-face, admits raid on journalist’s home was wrong
Application for warrant to raid freelance cameraman’s home may have included vague and...
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Jeff Adachi leak: Sorry, Chief. The SFPD ‘crossed the line.’
When police on May 10 raided freelance cameraman Bryan Carmody’s home, they purportedly couldn’t...
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Rape survivors feel re-victimized by the SFPD, despite department’s pledge to improve
Kelly O’Connor had just finished working a double shift at Foreign Cinema on Mission Street when...
Read MoreJeff Adachi leak: Chief Bill Scott describes raid of journalist’s home as investigation of ‘alleged co-conspirator’
The San Francisco Police Department is criminally investigating freelance journalist Bryan Carmody...
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Jeff Adachi leak: SFPD to return possessions seized from freelance cameraman in raid — judge to rule on underlying legality at later date
By the time Brian Carmody’s lawyers appeared in court Tuesday morning to argue for the return of...
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Mission Station cops, SRO residents, meet again for coffee and donuts
On Wednesday afternoon, several Mission Station police officers rolled into the Mission Hotel on...
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SFPD Chief Bill Scott defends raid of journalist’s home, sidesteps questions at Police Commission meeting
Despite meager attendance, all eyes were on Chief Bill Scott at Wednesday night’s San Francisco...
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