Effort to require SFPD officers to hand out business cards to detainees has been yearslong affair

Sep 13, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Should police officers hand over a business card with their information every time they stop to question or search someone? If so, how and what information should they hand over?

Report: Officers who shot Amilcar Perez-Lopez acted within policy and were not disciplined

Sep 5, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

The two San Francisco Police officers who fatally shot 21-year-old Guatemalan immigrant Amilcar Perez-Lopez in the Mission District in February 2015 acted within department policy, according to a report released Wednesday. They were not disciplined for the incident.

Paulo Morgado, the SFPD officer who earned more than the chief in 2018, has been fired — again

Sep 3, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Paulo Morgado, an officer who the San Francisco Police Department fired in 2011 and then had to abruptly rehire in 2017 as the result of a major court case, has been canned again. But in the meantime, he got a big payout and walked away with more than half a million dollars.

California just passed a sweeping police use-of-force law. San Francisco is still grappling with police bias.

Aug 20, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

While Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a new law that made it more difficult for police to shoot...

No charges for Joshua Cabillo, SFPD officer who shot fleeing man on a crowded street

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

An officer who shot an armed, fleeing man in the back on a San Francisco street crowded with...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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