SF Police Commissioners walk out of meeting in protest following election of board president

Feb 6, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Board-appointed police commissioners decry mayoral appointees as “agents of the mayor,” after...

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SFPD responds to calls for transparency with opacity

Jan 23, 2019 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Department declines to be transparent … about its own transparency procedures Search a San...

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SF Bayview residents feel abandoned after abrupt reassignment of respected police captain

Jan 22, 2019 | Bayview Station, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Bayview residents are dismayed over the swift departure of a police captain they say was finally...

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Mission homicides down 17 percent in overall trend

Jan 17, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile

Homicides, non-fatal shooting incidents, and other violent and property crimes in 2018 decreased...

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SFPD ‘not in substantial compliance’ with several DOJ reforms

Jan 16, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Despite concerns that the San Francisco Police Department’s reform process would atrophy following...

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Police oversight body makes big recommendations — but will the SFPD listen?

Jan 9, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The San Francisco Police Department needs to improve its body camera and search warrant policies,...

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Family remembers SFPD shooting victim with a memorial and hot chocolate for the homeless

Jan 9, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mission Station, Mobile, Newsletter, Police Shootings, Today's Mission, Topics

Two and a half years after police shot 45-year-old Luis Gongora Pat to death at the edge of a...

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Police union moves to block access to all current police shooting files

Dec 20, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

A last-ditch effort by a law enforcement union may block the public from gaining access to records...

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SFPD Chief Bill Scott’s proposal to cease making suspects sit on the street generates pushback from cops, union

Dec 19, 2018 | Command Staff, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

The sight of suspects cuffed and seated on the pavement with San Francisco police officers...

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Special Report: Building the next generation of ‘guardian’ cops — a blueprint for San Francisco?

Dec 18, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

In 2001, a young, recently retired Marine with the build of a football tight end sat in the Las...

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Textgate: Supreme Court swats case, clearing San Francisco to pursue discipline of officers in bigoted text scandal

Sep 12, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The California Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal in the legal case emanating from San...

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Why AB 931, a police use-of-force reform bill, died this week

Aug 31, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Police interests score major victory On Monday, supporters of a bill that would change how police...

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The battle over California’s police use-of-force bill heats up

Aug 30, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Photo: Body cam footage of Officer Chris Samayoa readying his gun before firing through his window...

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These two potential California laws could dramatically change policing

Aug 23, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

A pair of California bills aimed at building greater trust between police and the communities they...

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SFPD officers accused of homophobic remarks have a history of misconduct

Aug 22, 2018 | Central Station, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mission Station, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Photo: Patrick M. Tobin (third from the left) receives an honor for utilizing Crisis Intervention...

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An SF police officer is suing the city, alleging harassment for being gay

Aug 17, 2018 | Central Station, Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Photo: Outside of Central Station, Officers Brendan Mannix (left) Jen Viceral (right) hand out the...

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