By John Geluardi
The
San Francisco Police Commission will begin the New Year by kicking off
a national search for new police chief who, unfortunately, will be
denied a critical tool to make improvements on one of the most
dysfunctional departments in the country. Chief Heather Fong, who will step down in April, leaves
behind a technologically backwards and rudderless police department in
which the only thing lower than morale are the arrest statistics.
The most poigant
statistic is the de
If Gary Delagnes had been the cop working next to Johannes Mehserle when the now-infamous ex-BART policeman shot Oscar Grant, he knows what he would have said: "What the fuck did you just do?"The 30-year cop and president of the San Francisco Police Officer Association said that watching the much-traveled Internet videos of Grant's shooting death is especially cringe-worthy for those in the police community, who are baffled by their fellow officer's behavior. "You watch the chain of events and i
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The Ingleside police station, where Sgt. John V. Young was killed in 1971The president of San Francisco's police union railed against supervisors Eric Mar and Sophie Maxwell today for their sponsorship of a resolution asking that charges be dropped against the seven men charged with killing a city police sergeant in 1971.Gary Delagnes of the San Francisco Police Officers Association said the resolution, which he characterized as "idiotic," is "going to send a pretty devastating message to the me
Sgt. John V. YoungIf leftist supervisors sought to show the world that their sympathy for a group of alleged cop-killers in San Francisco was more than a zany political stunt, they have done themselves no favors with a new resolution that links the men's arrest to the Bush Administration, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib.The resolution, which will be reviewed this afternoon by the supes' Government Audit and Oversight Committee, urges California Attorney General (and presumed 2010 gubernatorial
Joe EskenaziIncoming Police Chief George Gascon addresses the sweating throngs of the fourth estate, as Mayor Gavin Newsom looks onThere are two times in life when it's pretty much guaranteed that everyone will find something nice to say about you: Your wedding and your funeral. It was a little bit of both today in Room 200 of City Hall, when incoming Police Chief George Gascon was given a hero's welcome while his predecessor, Chief Heather Fong, politely looked on -- and was lauded as wel
See you on the waterfrontThis Sunday, July 5, San Francisco's International Longshore and Warehouse Union will hold a procession to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Bloody Thursday, the clash between police and striking longshoremen during the city's 1934 General Strike that led to a permanent local rift between cops and stevedores.The San Francisco Labor Council is also going to be joining in the festivities, and is spreading the word about the event through its e-mail list. When we got one
Police Chief George Gascon​When George Gascon became chief of police two months ago, everybody seemed to agree: This bad-ass cop would rid the SFPD of its dead wood, and reform what experts had taken to calling the Western United States' most hidebound law enforcement agency.On Tuesday, Gascon is scheduled to suffer his first major setback in that quest, as the Board of Supervisors votes on a measure that effectively cancels the hope that Gascon will install his own leadership team from outsid
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