San Francisco has beaten its police union in every venue. Why does the city still defer to it?
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
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
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
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
On May 19, Supervisor Norman Yee introduced a potential Charter Amendment that would mandate San...
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Don’t book ’em, Danno: Police move to limit release of mugshots to prevent racial profiling
Police Chief Bill Scott vowed to crack down on how police release booking photos, also known as...
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SFPD lags in Crisis Intervention Training, and Black people remain over-represented in use of force incidents
Only half of San Francisco Police Department officers have taken a required 40-hour Crisis...
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Police chief says transparency is a step to accountability, but declines to explain his Jessica Williams decision
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott declined to say why he recommended no disciplinary action...
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BART Police may be the next targeted for ‘defunding’
Like every other police department in the Bay Area, the BART Police Department is facing calls for...
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Reform/defund/abolish the San Francisco Police Department: What we can do, what we can’t — and what we won’t
Major alterations to the SFPD may require your vote — and that election can’t come before 2022 On...
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Mayor London Breed jumps on police reform, but many of her proposals are already under way and struggling
Mayor London Breed on Thursday announced a raft of reforms largely mimicking a reform effort that...
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Woman found in parked car on Alabama Street pronounced dead Tuesday
A woman who was found in a parked car on Alabama Street was given CPR by first-responders and...
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Police Commission rejects proposed $23M budget cut in acrimonious nine-hour meeting
Five hours of public comment lambastes SFPD and calls for its defunding After meeting for nine...
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Officer who shot Jessica Williams was recommended for firing. Instead, he was suspended 45 days.
Editor’s note, June 15, 2020: This story has been updated as more information has become...
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Woman claims Sheriff’s Deputies struck her, others at San Francisco protest — and pointed Taser at crowd
A South Bay woman is claiming that a group of San Francisco Sheriff’s Deputies became violent when...
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San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott ‘open’ to defunding police department
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said he’s “open” to the defunding of his police department....
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