Covering the Police

Police Commission to SFPD: Why is use of force on men of color so disproportionately high?

Mar 7, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

‘Numbers don’t lie,’ concurs SFPD captain. The San Francisco Police Department...

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San Francisco dropped the Joint Terrorism Task Force two years ago. Now the FBI wants to pick things back up.

Feb 27, 2019 | Command Staff, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Police Commission, Today's Mission, Topics

After a two-year separation, the FBI wants to get back together with San Francisco. The bureau...

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SF no longer has final say over police officer discipline — at least for now

Feb 20, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Welcome news came last Wednesday evening for San Francisco Police Department officers who are...

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SF Bayview residents feel abandoned after abrupt reassignment of respected police captain

Jan 22, 2019 | Bayview Station, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Bayview residents are dismayed over the swift departure of a police captain they say was finally...

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Mission homicides down 17 percent in overall trend

Jan 17, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile

Homicides, non-fatal shooting incidents, and other violent and property crimes in 2018 decreased...

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SFPD ‘not in substantial compliance’ with several DOJ reforms

Jan 16, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Despite concerns that the San Francisco Police Department’s reform process would atrophy following...

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Family of police shooting victim Luis Gongora Pat settles civil suit with the city

Jan 11, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Immigrant Life, Mobile, Newsletter, SNAPS, Today's Mission, Topics

The family of Luis Gongora Pat, the homeless Mexican immigrant police shot and killed in the...

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Police oversight body makes big recommendations — but will the SFPD listen?

Jan 9, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The San Francisco Police Department needs to improve its body camera and search warrant policies,...

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Family remembers SFPD shooting victim with a memorial and hot chocolate for the homeless

Jan 9, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mission Station, Mobile, Newsletter, Police Shootings, Today's Mission, Topics

Two and a half years after police shot 45-year-old Luis Gongora Pat to death at the edge of a...

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Police union president spikes Chief Bill Scott’s column from union newsletter

Dec 20, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Police Officers Association president Tony Montoya has unilaterally ordered the editor of his...

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Police union moves to block access to all current police shooting files

Dec 20, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

A last-ditch effort by a law enforcement union may block the public from gaining access to records...

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SFPD Chief Bill Scott’s proposal to cease making suspects sit on the street generates pushback from cops, union

Dec 19, 2018 | Command Staff, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

The sight of suspects cuffed and seated on the pavement with San Francisco police officers...

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Special Report: Building the next generation of ‘guardian’ cops — a blueprint for San Francisco?

Dec 18, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

In 2001, a young, recently retired Marine with the build of a football tight end sat in the Las...

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Sex workers, advocates denied entry into Mission Station in protest over ‘Sex Worker Abatement Unit’

Dec 17, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Sex worker advocates are calling on the San Francisco Police Department to end its so-called “sex...

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SF’s top law enforcement officials square off over police shootings

Dec 14, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

San Francisco’s four top law-enforcement officials took the stage on Friday and chewed over the...

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First ‘Textgate’ disciplinary cases to come before Police Commission today

Dec 5, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Police Commission, Today's Mission, Topics

Tucked away at item No. 9 in tonight’s Police Commission agenda are a handful of issues that...

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