Covering the Police

SF police misconduct records remain elusive, despite transparency law

Aug 6, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

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

Jul 31, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

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

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

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?

Jun 19, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

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

Jun 13, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

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

Jun 12, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

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.

Jun 4, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

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

May 30, 2019 | Command Staff, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mission Station, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

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

May 24, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

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.’

May 22, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

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

May 22, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Kelly O’Connor had just finished working a double shift at Foreign Cinema on Mission Street when...

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Jeff Adachi leak: Chief Bill Scott describes raid of journalist’s home as investigation of ‘alleged co-conspirator’

May 21, 2019 | AP, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

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

May 21, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

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

May 17, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

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

May 15, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Despite meager attendance, all eyes were on Chief Bill Scott at Wednesday night’s San Francisco...

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Experts, community participants in SFPD anti-bias group wonder if police are listening

May 14, 2019 | Command Staff, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

A new day for collaborative reform between civilians and the San Francisco Police Department — or...

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