SF Police Commission approves sweeping new policy on community policing

Oct 8, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

The Police Commission on Wednesday passed a sweeping revision to the San Francisco Police...

Gaps in SFPD discipline ‘alarming’ to Police Commission

Sep 17, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

The San Francisco Police Commission raised major concerns about the police department’s...

Malia Cohen stakes out her positions on police reform — glides toward Police Commission appointment

Aug 17, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Former San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen cleared her first hurdle to becoming a San Francisco...

SF police union threatens ‘aggressive’ legal action against Police Commission

Jul 3, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Police Commission, Topics

The San Francisco Police Officers Association said Friday it was ready to “take the most...

SF Police Commission draws a line in the sand over POA demands to meet and confer

Jul 2, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

At Wednesday night’s Police Commission meeting, a fiery public commenter told the commissioners...

SF Police Commission: Racial bias statistics remain ‘disturbing’

Jul 2, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter

Members of the San Francisco Police Commission say they’re unsettled by recent police...

Police Commission rejects proposed $23M budget cut in acrimonious nine-hour meeting

Jun 11, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Five hours of public comment lambastes SFPD and calls for its defunding After meeting for nine...

Deal is purportedly rejected by Mayor Breed — and, so are her nominees for police oversight body

Jun 9, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Purported offer to yank Nancy Tung’s nomination in exchange for approval of Geoffrey...

Rules committee rejects Mayor Breed’s moderate nominees to the Police Commission

Jun 2, 2020 | Covering the Police, Department of Police Accountability, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, Today's Mission

With the backdrop of a country in flames over the issue of police brutality and San Francisco’s...

SF Police Commission approves sweeping new anti-bias policy

May 21, 2020 | Covering the Police, Department of Police Accountability, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, Police Commission, Trouble

The San Francisco Police Commission unanimously passed an anti-bias policy on Wednesday night in...

SF Police Commission to resume amid confusion and acrimony

May 6, 2020 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Topics

After a nearly three-month hiatus, the Police Commission will reconvene in a virtual format as...

SB 1421 Madness: S.F. Police Commission advances enhanced police misconduct records protocol

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

The San Francisco Police Commission on Wednesday night unanimously passed a tentative version of the city’s protocol for releasing police misconduct files under a statewide transparency law — a move that may ease confusion and speed up the dissemination of the previously confidential records.

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.