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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Family of police shooting victim Luis Gongora Pat settles civil suit with the city

Jan 11, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Immigrant Life, Mobile, Newsletter, SNAPS, Today's Mission, Topics

The family of Luis Gongora Pat, the homeless Mexican immigrant police shot and killed in the...

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San Francisco Police vow to better serve sexual assault and domestic violence survivors

Jan 11, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The San Francisco Police Department is belatedly undertaking the process of correcting a lapse in...

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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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Stolen goods valued at $300K recovered after eight-month sting

Dec 20, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics, Trouble

The San Francisco Police Department’s press room looked a bit like Santa’s workshop on Thursday...

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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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Sex workers, advocates denied entry into Mission Station in protest over ‘Sex Worker Abatement Unit’

Dec 17, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Sex worker advocates are calling on the San Francisco Police Department to end its so-called “sex...

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SF’s top law enforcement officials square off over police shootings

Dec 14, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

San Francisco’s four top law-enforcement officials took the stage on Friday and chewed over the...

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Have you seen this car? Photos released in Valencia Street hit-and-run

Oct 17, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

The San Francisco Police Department has turned to the general public for assistance, releasing a...

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California police misconduct records to be made public again after four decades of secrecy

Oct 2, 2018 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Starting next year, Californians will have access to certain records relating to police misconduct...

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