Covering the Police

Sean Monterrosa family files civil suit over police shooting

Aug 6, 2020 | Covering the Police, Department of Police Accountability, Featured, Front Page, Inequality, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble, Twitter

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

Jul 29, 2020 | Department of Police Accountability, Featured, Front Page, Inequality, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble, Twitter

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

Jul 23, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Police Commission, Topics

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

Jul 21, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble, Twitter

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

Jul 15, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

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

Jul 8, 2020 | Covering the Police, Department of Police Accountability, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Police Commission, Today's Mission, Topics

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

Jul 3, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Police Commission, Topics

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

Jul 2, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

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’

Jul 2, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter

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

Jun 30, 2020 | Covering the Police, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

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

Jun 30, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

In the summer of 2016, a 73-year-old Deaf woman suffering from dementia allegedly tried to pull...

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San Francisco has beaten its police union in every venue. Why does the city still defer to it?

Jun 29, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Sources: Supervisor Norman Yee now poised to move forward legislation that could undo police...

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BART shifts $2M away from police department, as director defends Confederate general Robert E. Lee

Jun 25, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

The Bay Area Rapid Transit’s reckoning with internal racism played out in real-time on Thursday as...

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San Francisco School Board votes to cut ties and funds from police

Jun 23, 2020 | Covering the Police, Education, Featured, Front Page, Inequality, Mobile, Today's Mission

The San Francisco Unified School District will no longer partner with or fund the San Francisco...

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School District moves to part ways with San Francisco Police Department

Jun 20, 2020 | Covering the Police, Department of Police Accountability, Elementary Schools, Featured, Front Page, High School, Inequality, Middle Schools, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Trouble, Twitter

The San Francisco Board of Education announced a resolution last night that would break its...

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Bogged down in meetings with police union, measure to potentially reduce SFPD size may miss ballot

Jun 19, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

On May 19, Supervisor Norman Yee introduced a potential Charter Amendment that would mandate San...

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