SF police union threatens ‘aggressive’ legal action against Police Commission
The San Francisco Police Officers Association said Friday it was ready to “take the most...
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Tag: use of force
SF Police Commission draws a line in the sand over POA demands to meet and confer
At Wednesday night’s Police Commission meeting, a fiery public commenter told the commissioners...
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SF Police Commission: Racial bias statistics remain ‘disturbing’
Members of the San Francisco Police Commission say they’re unsettled by recent police...
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SFPD to explicitly ban officers from using their knees on the necks of civilians
The San Francisco Police Department is amending its use of force policy to explicitly bar officers...
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SFPD lags in Crisis Intervention Training, and Black people remain over-represented in use of force incidents
Only half of San Francisco Police Department officers have taken a required 40-hour Crisis...
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Police chief says transparency is a step to accountability, but declines to explain his Jessica Williams decision
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott declined to say why he recommended no disciplinary action...
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Officer who shot Jessica Williams was recommended for firing. Instead, he was suspended 45 days.
Editor’s note, June 15, 2020: This story has been updated as more information has become...
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Amid calls for change, San Francisco Police Department remains slow to reform and, despite all data to the contrary, continues to deny racial bias
As thousands of people have taken to the streets of San Francisco to protest the killing of George...
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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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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 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 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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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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Jamaica Hampton: San Francisco Police Department addresses public at ‘town hall’ meeting following Dec. 7 shooting
In a taut and crowded “town hall” meeting Tuesday night at the packed gym of Cesar...
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Woman who says her son was shot by San Francisco police questions use of lethal force
A woman who said she is the mother of a man shot in the Mission district this weekend by San...
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