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June 16, 2009
Know Your Potential Future Police Chief: George Gascon
George GasconUPDATE: Mayor Gavin Newsom did indeed choose George Gascon to be San Francisco's next chief. Recently on this page, we noted that Harold Hurtt, potentially Police Chief Heather Fong's successor in San Francisco -- may be out of a job altogether if he doesn't land the top slot here ... More >>
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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 >>
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June 23, 2009
'Three-Ring Circus' Of Immigrant-Bashing in Mesa, Ariz. May Have Hastened New SFPD Chief George Gascon's Departure
George Gascon, San Francisco's police chief-to-beBy now, anyone even loosely following city government knows that San Francisco's next police chief is George Gascon -- and, if you've been following SF Weekly's coverage, you may even know how he stands on policy matters (and that he sounds a bit like ... More >>
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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.
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July 22, 2009
Lucky George: Incoming San Francisco Police Chief Says He Was About to be Canned From Old Job
George GasconIncoming San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon -- the subject of this week's SF Weekly cover story -- is certainly walking into a dicey situation in his avowed attempts to shake up San Francisco's problematic police department. But it's better than filing for unemployment, which he c ... More >>
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August 5, 2009
Goin' Down South? With LAPD's Top Cop Stepping Down, Will George Gascon's Tenure in S.F. Be Brief?
Hello, I must be going?When San Francisco's police chief-to-be was introduced to throngs of media members in a rather small, stuffy room earlier this summer, your humble narrator got to ask George Gascon one question. And he gave us zero answers. "How long a commitment have you given the city?" w ... More >>
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August 7, 2009
Will Police Chief's New U.S. Homeland Security Gig Undermine S.F. Crime-Fighting?
Will tough-talking George Gascon kill the federal goose that lays golden eggs that buy police departments neat toys like this?Top S.F. crime-fighter is one of two new hats on the head of tough-talking new police chief George Gascon. He also last month signed on as a member of U.S. Homeland Securi ... More >>
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August 25, 2009
Proposed Rule Change Would Allow New Chief to Purge Top SFPD Brass
Chief George GasconNew San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon has not announced plans to liquidate top SFPD brass and fill positions with his own people, as he did during his first year as chief of the police department in Mesa, Arizona.Notwithstanding, a proposed amendment introduced by Superv ... More >>
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September 3, 2009
Public Defender Says Tenderloin Drug Sweep Spells Trouble for Court System
No sooner had newly minted San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon declared a much-publicized sweep of drug dealers in the city's notoriously crime-ridden Tenderloin neighborhood than doubters began speaking up. After all, as San Francisco Chronicle columnists Matier and Ross noted recently, mak ... More >>
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October 2, 2009
Chronic City: How Much Should We Read Into S.F. Police Chief's Prohibition Reference During Pot Press Conference?
George GasconDid San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon tacitly hint at the benefits of marijuana legalization during a press conference this week? That's one way to read the, er, tea leaves. At the conference, held Wednesday to tout the SFPD's recent raids shutting down illegal marijuana growh ... More >>
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October 5, 2009
Did Police Union Block New Chief From Hiring Outside Brass?
Police Chief George GasconWhen 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 >>
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October 21, 2009
Say Hello To My Little Friend: S.F., Meet CompStat
Can the SFPD saved by the miracle of computers? Wednesday morning, at the unveiling of the city's new crimefighting tool, CompStat, San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon had the city say hello to his not-so-little friend and implementer, LAPD detective Jeff Godown.Gascon intend ... More >>
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October 30, 2009
Cops: No Tolerance For Halloween Drunkenness, Pissing -- Making This a Remarkable Day in S.F.
It's a butterfly knife, Charlie Brown...At yesterday's SFPD press conference, Chief George Gascon -- he of the nifty suit -- appears to have dressed as a police officer for Halloween. You can, too -- but if you tote a weapon, stumble drunkenly through public thoroughfares, urinate or defecate in ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Newsom and Gascon Annouce Drop in Violent Crime A Week After Gascon Admits Record-Keeping Flaws
A week ago, the San Francisco Examiner broke this story about how the San Francisco Police Department statistics are botched, and have been for some time, particularly in the area of aggravated assaults. Somehow, the department failed to include domestic violence incidents in ... More >>
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January 13, 2010
Yet Another San Francisco Vehicle Fire
www.lcpstc.orgThe other day we wrote about how San Francisco was attempting to reclaim its mantle as The City That Knows How ... To Burn Cars from the East Bay. Well, the hits keep coming. Shortly before 1 a.m. this morning, police officers spotted a vehicle burning at Alemany and Naglee in the E ... More >>
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January 13, 2010
Gascon Defends Plan to Post Photos of Sex Customers. Will DJs Be the Big Winners?
Police Chief George GasconSan Francisco already has an award-winning, nationally imitated "John School" that tries to re-educate first time offenders caught in prostitution stings. What's more, the program was lauded by an in-depth Department of Justice Analysis. Now, police chief George Gascon i ... More >>
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January 19, 2010
Police Chief Now Says First-Time Johns Won't Be Publicly Shamed
Umberto MarinIs this Plan B?The problem with San Francisco is that people come here to do stuff they think they can't get away with at home. Prostitutes from South Carolina, for instance. This was police chief George Gascon's take, expressed at a community press conference this afternoon re ... More >>
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January 27, 2010
City hounds the homeless for dog licenses
Umberto MarinIs this Plan B?The problem with San Francisco is that people come here to do stuff they think they can't get away with at home. Prostitutes from South Carolina, for instance. This was police chief George Gascon's take, expressed at a community press conference this afternoon re ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
Police Will Still Bust Drug Dealers Despite Crime Lab Closure
Still in business...Police Chief George Gascon ensured in a Thursday afternoon press conference that police are continuing to bust drug dealers even as the department crime lab's narcotics unit went dark this week after accusations one of the civilian lab technicians was skimming drugs from evide ... More >>
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March 30, 2010
Harsh Audit Slams Overworked, Careless S.F. Crime Lab
San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon announced today that the embattled crime lab's drug unit will remain closed until it can adhere to the industry's average annual caseload per worker -- just one of many recommendations in a peer audit of the drug lab released by the police Tuesday. The ind ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
Cops Claim Pot Clubs are Crime Magnets, Won't Provide Evidence To Back It Up
According to the SFPD, this sort of stuff is happening all the time out in the Sunset. They've got evidence to prove it -- er, somewhere. San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon has pledged to drag his department out of the Stone Age, using the COMPSTAT system he helped pioneer in Los Angele ... More >>
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June 1, 2010
Baylinks: Hipsters, Fliers, & Questions
Aren't we all one Web design class away from yuppie-dom, anyway?Who's gentrifying the Mission: Hipsters vs. Yuppies. [Mission Mission]Sierra Club doesn't "frown on fliers" even if they do kill trees. [SFAppeal]Read the Mehserle jury questionnaire. [Crime Scene]Cesar Chavez meridian appears to def ... More >>
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July 6, 2010
Police Chief George Gascon Says Arizona Immigration Law Lets Thugs Run Wild
...Gascon says Arizona law will lead to lawlessnessSan Francisco Police Chief George Gascon -- known for locking horns with anti-immigrant demagogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County while Gascon served as chief of police in Mesa, Arizona -- said the Grand Canyon State's much-maligned immigra ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Police Create Committee To Suss Out Crooked Cops
Shawn CalhounChief George Gascon is angry. He wants you to be angry, too.A retired judge and police team will begin reviewing the misconduct and criminal histories of San Francisco police officers. This is part of a new process to disclose information that may discredit cops testifying at trial. ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
SFPD wants to recruit suburbocops from outside the city
Shawn CalhounChief George Gascon is angry. He wants you to be angry, too.A retired judge and police team will begin reviewing the misconduct and criminal histories of San Francisco police officers. This is part of a new process to disclose information that may discredit cops testifying at trial. ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
New Year's Eve: San Francisco Police Lay Down the Law
Chief Gascon wants you to be smart, not dumbWhen a roomful of grimly unsmiling, gun-toting, uniformed police officers say they want everyone to "have fun," it goes without saying a definition of what is "fun" is forthcoming. Or, perhaps more accurately, here's what the San Francisco Police Depart ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Police Union Head Has 'Concerns and Regret' Over Gascón Appointment
George GascónThe 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 >>
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January 11, 2011
George Gascón Now Western State Law School's Most Famous Alum
George Gascón has made his alma mater very proud...It seems safe to say that, for whatever reasons erstwhile Mayor Gavin Newsom selected George Gascón to be district attorney, it wasn't for his lawyerin' skills. The former police chief -- who will be deciding whether or not to apply the death p ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Ammiano Bill: Growing Pot Would No Longer Be Automatic Felony
Turns out, you might not be considered a felonCalifornians caught growing cannabis without a medical recommendation -- and indeed, some marijuana cultivators with medical recommendations -- are on their way to becoming felons. Law enforcement has no choice -- cultivation is a felony.Although that ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
SFPD Officers Committed Perjury in Reporting Drug Busts, Public Defender Claims
Lawyers at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office today accused multiple police officers of committing perjury by falsely describing drug busts they conducted in written police reports.At a press conference, deputy public defenders Tal Klement and Anne Irwin showed video taken by surveillance ca ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
George Gascón Targets Petty Theft, Mortgage Fraud
No new system of community courts after all?Recently appointed District Attorney George Gascón plans to expand use of community courts for petty scofflaws, while stepping up prosecution of white-collar crimes such as mortgage fraud, according to a new report.Gascón's idea is to "develop a neigh ... More >>
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March 4, 2011
DA George Gascón Says Probe of Alleged SFPD Perjury Isn't Conflict of Interest
Independent of what?Update: KGO reports this morning that the FBI is launching its own investigation into the allegations over the police misconduct during a drug bust earlier this year. The agency will look into possible civil rights violations among other violations.Original story, Thursday, Ma ... More >>
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March 11, 2011
FBI Takes Over Police Misconduct Investigation from DA George Gascón
DA George GasconDistrict Attorney George Gascón said today that he is turning over his office's investigation into alleged police misconduct to FBI agents and the U.S. Attorney's office.Following a press conference, Gascón issued a statement that U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag "has agreed to take o ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Accused White Supremacists Charged with Beating Mexicans in S.F.
Welcome to San Francisco, gentlemenThree alleged white supremacists appeared in a San Francisco courtroom this morning to answer to charges of attacking two Mexican nationals -- kicking one unconscious while yelling "White power."The accused attackers in this Tenderloin hate crime case -- includi ... More >>
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April 1, 2011
Mayor Ed Lee, Candidates Use Cesar Chavez Day as a Chance to Schmooze
We wish we were flies buzzing around them.Politicos rolled out of bed early Thursday morning to make an appearance at the 8 a.m. Cesar Chavez Day breakfast in the Mission. They munched on $60 plates of eggs, frijoles, and tortillas to benefit the upcoming Cesar Chavez Parade & Festival ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Pot Busts Are a High Priority for Cops -- But They Shouldn't Be
Waiting for Godot to fire up a jointIt's long been the desire of voters and San Francisco lawmakers that the city's peace officers enforce all other crimes before busting adults smoking pot. In light of this, it's hard for pot advocates to figure out why undercover police spent 30 minutes on Marc ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
George Gascón Likens Community Courts to Village Elders Meting Out Justice
Electing George Gascon as D.A. Will Be Like Siccing These Guys On SF Apple StealersAre Community Courts, as proposed by District Attorney George Gascón, a great way to quickly resolve nonviolent crime cases without clogging up the Hall of Justice? Or are they merely a way for prosecutors to rail ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
Gavin Newsom Hearts George Gascón
Degree of difficulty: No jokes about hair in this story!In a move every bit as awe-inspiring as a magician pulling a rabbit out of a rabbit hutch, District Attorney George Gascón today trumpeted an election endorsement from the lieutenant governor. "I'm endorsing George Gascón for the same reas ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Will George Gascón Get the Gay Vote?
Gascón likes gay people but do they like him?We know how discouraged San Francisco was after District Attorney George Gascón was elevated into his position only to admit that he supports the death penalty -- that's not what San Francisco voted for!But since then, Gascón has done much to rectif ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
George Gascon Tries to Back Up Pro-Pot Claims by Dropping Charges on Grower
sfgov.orgWe know what we're doingYesterday, we told you the story of Wayne Kiloh, a 63-year-old Richmond District man who for seven years has grown medical cannabis in his Avenues home for the Green Cross, the city's lone licensed medical marijuana delivery service. After a July 2010 police raid ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
George Gascón Criticized for Considering Three Strikes Law in Alex Trebek Burglary
Will he strike out with voters?Update: District Attorney George Gascón's campaign manager Maureen Erwin told SF Weekly today that she believes David Onek's campaign incorrectly propagated information that Gascón chose to prosecute Lucinda Moyers under the Three Strikes law."From a campaign's st ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
DA George Gascón Defends Handling of Crime Lab Memo
George GascónDistrict Attorney George Gascón fought back against attacks on his suppression of an internal memo criticizing the San Francisco Police Department Crime Lab's DNA unit at a public forum for DA candidates last night, asserting that his office was prepared to disclose the memo throug ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
City Attorney Contradicts DA George Gascón's Statements on DNA Lab Memo
George GascónThe San Francisco City Attorney's Office yesterday contradicted statements District Attorney George Gascón made last week about why his office has refused to release an internal memo criticizing the DNA unit of the city's troubled police crime lab.The memo, which was authored by na ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
SFPD Investigates Officer for Mouthing Off to Press
George GascónThe San Francisco City Attorney's Office yesterday contradicted statements District Attorney George Gascón made last week about why his office has refused to release an internal memo criticizing the DNA unit of the city's troubled police crime lab.The memo, which was authored by na ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
City Attorney Says DNA Lab Memo Is Exempt from Public Records Act
Rockne Harmon co-authored a controversial internal memo on crime lab problemsWe reported Tuesday that City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office, contrary to assertions made at a public debate last week by District Attorney George Gascón, had not provided an opinion as to whether a controversial inte ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
DA's Office to Appeal Judge's Order Unsealing DNA Lab Memo
George GascónProsecutors in the office of District Attorney George Gascón have decided to appeal a judge's order that they release an internal memo detailing problems with DNA analysis in the San Francisco Police Department crime lab.The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Saturday that the DA' ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
DA Candidates Ramp Up Attacks on George Gascón over Efforts to Conceal DNA Lab Memo
Photo courtesy Sharmin Bock for District AttorneyBill Fazio, David Onek, and Sharmin Bock speak to reporters at City HallCandidates attempting to unseat District Attorney George Gascón in the November election held a press conference today in an effort to draw attention to Gascón's continued ef ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Cop Who Called Gascón a 'Media Whore' in SF Weekly Gets Slap on the Wrist
The final fall-out. So it turns out that calling your boss a "media whore" in the San Francisco Police Department doesn't get you suspended, but it does get you slapped on the wrist. Sassy. Sgt. Carl T. -- yes, that's his real name -- has received notice that he's gotten a disciplinary repr ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Election Money -- Who Gave What in San Francisco
Invest, young man. Invest in politics! As of last night, San Francisco's election season is all over except for the shoutin' -- and recriminatin' and fulminatin' and tabulatin' who bought what. Assuming Mayor Ed Lee does pull it out, a number of observers will note he did so in spite of the actio ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
DA George Gascón Pleased with Feds' Investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Joe ArpaioIn San Francisco, District Attorney George Gascón is known as an administratively competent political moderate who has a firmly established place in the ascendant "city family" headed by Mayor Ed Lee. During his tenure as chief of the Mesa Police Department in Arizona, Gascón was know ... More >>
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