A vacation gone wrong: SFPD sued for allegedly falsely arresting parents, holding their baby ‘hostage’
A Northern California family has filed a lawsuit against the San Francisco Police Department,...
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Covering the Police
SF Police Commission to resume amid confusion and acrimony
After a nearly three-month hiatus, the Police Commission will reconvene in a virtual format as...
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COVID-19: Ingleside Police Station closes for cleaning after officers potentially exposed
The Ingleside Police Station was closed for around two hours Monday morning for a cleaning by...
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SFPD reforms moving ‘too slow,’ state DOJ finds
The state Department of Justice slammed the San Francisco Police Department’s reform progress in a...
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Should the San Francisco Police Department apologize to the black community?
Should the San Francisco Police Department issue a public apology to San Francisco’s African...
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SFPD system meant to prevent misconduct is eviscerated as ‘highly inaccurate’ by outside researchers
The San Francisco Police Department’s in-house system for preventing misconduct by officers is...
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Police shooting victim Sean Moore’s federal civil rights case vs. San Francisco will continue — even after his death
Sean Moore survived being shot multiple times by San Francisco Police officers on his own property...
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Police union president calls for federal prosecution of man accused of assaulting cop as police union runoff election commences
San Francisco police union president Tony Montoya’s call this morning for federal prosecutors to...
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SFPD officer drove drunk, accessed confidential information — and kept his job
A San Francisco Police officer has been allowed to remain with the SFPD, despite being criminally...
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San Francisco records lowest number of homicides since 1961
Violent crime and property crime declined across the city in 2019, with homicides dropping 11...
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SFPD officers who shot Jamaica Hampton have been assigned back to active duty
The two San Francisco Police officers who shot Jamaica Hampton, a man armed with a glass bottle on...
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Jamaica Hampton, shot by SFPD, has leg amputated
Jamaica Hampton, the 24-year-old man who police shot multiple times in December at the...
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SF moves to settle lawsuit alleging racially motivated SFPD drug bust and racist comments
The City of San Francisco has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that the San Francisco Police...
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Former police union boss threatened supervisor by warning he’d leak her husband’s confidential police records
Threatening letter from former POA boss predated Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer’s ‘Fuck the...
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Mission Station officers are pointing their guns at people far more than other San Francisco cops. Is culture to blame?
In 2019, Mission Station police officers pointed their guns at civilians more often than cops at...
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SFPD officer who shot Jamaica Hampton became a training officer — despite excessive force charges
One of the two San Francisco Police officers who shot Jamaica Hampton on Dec. 7, 2019, is...
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