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Gary Delagnes

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Jeff Adachi Responds to Police Slander Allegations

    ​Gary Delagnes, president of the Police Officers Association, doesn't miss many opportunities to take shots at local pols -- figuratively speaking -- as evidenced again in today's Chron. He penned a brief yet sharp op-ed bluntly calling out Public Defender Jeff Adachi for "slandering" local cops.F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Has Gary Delagnes to Thank

    There were plenty of "Zombie Candidates" in this year's race, but not Ross Mirkarimi​A favorite old Far Side comic depicts a dying duelist expiring in the arms of the ritual's adjudicator and stating "I could have sworn you said eleven paces..." In other words, failure to comprehend the rules can ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    DROP Kick: Not So Many Cops Enroll in Double-Dipping Program

    ​We've written quite a bit about the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP), a sweet deal voters awarded police several years back that allowed cops to amass salaries and pensions simultaneously -- and retire with lump sump payments exceeding $400,000. Despite the quixotic and bizarre attempts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Will DROP Program Live to Double-Dip Again?

    ​Update: Police Union head Gary Delagnes predicts Ross Mirkarimi will push renewing DROP for one year. Not long ago, SF Weekly wrote a story about the city's Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP). The program allows older police officers to simultaneously earn pensions and salaries -- a tough sce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Will the SFPD Forgo Raises?

    Is he a politician or not?​One of the reasons why so many people like Mayor Ed Lee is because he has that understated aura of being nonpolitical. But in reality, the mayor is rather good at the sport of politics, and he's even better at down playing it.A clear example of this is when he made the t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Greg Suhr: Was the New Police Chief a Bargaining Chip?

    Suhr was worth millions​Mayor Ed Lee has finally chosen Greg Suhr, a veteran cop long attached to the good ol' boy network, as San Francisco's next chief of police. And why wouldn't he pick Suhr? That's who the San Francisco police union wanted. Not to say that Suhr is the wrong choice. On the con ... More >>

  • News

    April 13, 2011

    Double Drain: Program Pays Cops Pensions While Still on the Force

    Suhr was worth millions​Mayor Ed Lee has finally chosen Greg Suhr, a veteran cop long attached to the good ol' boy network, as San Francisco's next chief of police. And why wouldn't he pick Suhr? That's who the San Francisco police union wanted. Not to say that Suhr is the wrong choice. On the con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Allegations of 'Phantom Voting' in Police Union Election

    I ain't afraid of no phantom voter...​Accusations as to whether "phantom voting" helped San Francisco Police Officer's Association President Gary Delagnes win reelection fairly surfaced today on the blog of outspoken former cop Andrew Cohen.Despite grumblings about the longtime union president, De ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Police Union Head Has 'Concerns and Regret' Over Gascón Appointment

    George Gascón​The head of San Francisco's police union is circulating a bulletin to members today that expresses surprise and concern over the appointment of SFPD Chief George Gascón as the city's new district attorney.The memo also strikes a positive note, however, pointing out that a former c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    Byron Williams, Alleged I-580 Shooter: Poster Boy For Flaws With Three-Strikes Law?

    Did Byron Williams pending third strike influence his decision to allegedly trigger a massive gunfight?​Alleged I-580 shooter Byron Williams is a man seemingly torn from a bad 1980s movie. We may never know what was going through the mind of a person accused of stealing mom's guns, donning a suit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Cops Weigh in on Johannes Mehserle

    Johannes Mehserle​Today, jurors resume deliberations in the case against Johannes Mehserle, deciding whether the former BART cop murdered unarmed rider Oscar Grant, is guilty of manslaughter, or should be outright acquitted. Based on the subsequent reaction of an angry mob, those 12 men and women ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Union Boss: 'No Way' Kamala Harris Gets Cops' Endorsement for Attorney General

    Tyra Banks is supporting Kamala Harris. The city's cops are not. ​California Watch has a good story up today on the role the state's influential police unions will play in deciding the attorney general's race between Kamala Harris and Steve Cooley. As reporter Timothy Sandoval notes, San Francisco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Poll: Harris Is AG Front-Runner -- Until Pollster Starts Talking Dirty

    With how much salt shall we take Ted Lieu's new poll?​It's not every day that a political candidate eagerly publicizes a survey revealing he's polling in the single-digits and trails the leader by double-digits. And yet, this has turned out to not be a typical Attorney General's race. Would-be AG ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    S.F. Cops on BART Glass-Shattering Incident: C'est La Vie

    Every once in a while, we give a call to a veteran San Francisco police officer with 20 years of patrol experience. Naturally we phoned him up to get his take on the weekend incident in which a BART officer removing a disorderly man from a train resulted in a  YouTube video titled "Officer Br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Did Police Union Block New Chief From Hiring Outside Brass?

    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 ... More >>

  • News

    August 5, 2009

    SFPD possibly detained and released fugitive who later killed cop

    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 ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2009

    The Outsider

    George Gascon is S.F.'s first police chief in 30 years who wasn't homegrown — and he's promising big changes. Criminals and lazy cops, you have been warned.

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of General Strike Falls Amid Renewed Police-Labor Feud

    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 lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Top Cop George Gascon Meets The Press

    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 littl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    Supes' Resolution Links Arrest of Alleged Cop-Killers to Iraq Torture Scandals

    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, Gua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Supervisors Push for Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers

    San Francisco Eight, Board of Supervisors, Sophie Maxwell, Eric Mar, San Francisco Police Department, Sgt. John Young, Black Liberation Army, Black Panthers

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Union President: Supervisors' Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers is 'Spitting in the Face of Every Cop in San Francisco'

    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 p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    S.F. Police Union President: 'I Would Bet My Kids' Lives' Oscar Grant Shooting an Accident

    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-tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    SF's New Top Cop Won't Have Contract Protection

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    San Francisco Police Department Can't Stop Homicides

    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 ... More >>

  • News

    August 6, 2008

    The Chief Is In (for Now)

    With homicide cases going unsolved and morale in the police department sinking, Heather Fong's days as chief may be numbered.

  • News

    June 4, 2008

    To Serve & Collect

    Nearly extinct and long at odds with the SFPD, the little-known San Francisco Patrol Special Police appears poised for a comeback.

  • News

    March 26, 2008

    Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • News

    January 30, 2008

    Cop Shortage Makes Newsom's Police Promise Look Unlikely

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

  • News

    April 18, 2007

    The Bizarro Endorsement

    Liberal candidate may get a boost from the police organization that condemns him

  • News

    April 4, 2007

    Coming to Terms

    Pols weigh how to sell voters term-limit extensions. How about adding Gavin to the mix?

  • News

    January 31, 2007

    A Fine Mess

    Pols weigh how to sell voters term-limit extensions. How about adding Gavin to the mix?

  • News

    January 18, 2006

    Let It Bleed

    Prosecutors' reluctance to charge murder suspects in S.F. leaves alleged killers on the street, flush with bravado

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