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Newsom’s Resign-O-Rama: Sixteen Reasons it Could Become a Fiasco
September 18, 2007Halloween In Fallujah: Castro Cops Promise Barricades, Ambulances ... Possibly Chaos
September 24, 2007Castro Halloween: ‘100,000 People are Coming. Where Will They Urinate?’
October 11, 2007Halloween Headlines: Cops, BART, Parking, Protests, Funerals
October 31, 2007The Case of the Missing Heather Fong Letter
April 17, 2008After 14 Years, His SFPD Paperwork is Approved
July 2, 2008The Chief Is In: Is She Accountable?
August 7, 2008Fong Retires with "Dignity"? Nope: Try "Perjury."
Every time I think the Mayor's office couldn't take 100 homicides any less seriously, he one-ups himself with a stunt like this. By Benjamin Wachs There's lies, damn lies, and then there's the stunt that Gavin Newsom and Heather Fong just pulled. Silent Fong's supporters are going on about how SF's top cop is retiring on her own terms, with dignity - but the problem has always been that her dignity came at the expense of law enforcement in San Francisco...and nothing could illustrate that bett
December 24, 2008SF'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 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
December 31, 200811th Hour Decision: Let there be BINGO! (At least for 90 days)
By Lauren SmileyWaiting for "Bingo!" at Army Street Bingo has been suspenseful for more than dauber-wielding grannies in the last couple months. The eight non-profits who hold games there to fund-raise for their charities have worried they'd lose a major source of revenue since the police denied their 2009 permits in November. (Read our story here.)This afternoon, with hours ticking till the New Year, the police informed the non-profits they wouldn't slaughter their cash cow. Yet. The non-profi
December 31, 2008Tenderloin Activists Push San Mateo Chief as SF's Next Top Cop
An influential neighborhood group serving one of San Francisco's most crime-ridden districts has thrown its weight behind San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer as successor to San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong, who announced her retirement last month. In a statement released Saturday, the Community Leadership Alliance (CLA), a group active in the Tenderloin that has strong ties to the mayor's office, said picking Manheimer "is an opportunity for our police commission-mayor to make hist
January 12, 2009Azeem Drops Dope New Video
AzeemFor years, we've been following the career of local wordsmith Azeem with interest--and occasional awe. Dude has been killing it for a while with his spoken word-influenced rap style, not to mention his collaborations with DJ Zeph, Wide Hive collective Variable Unit, and his one man theater piece, "Rude Boy." At this point, Azeem's got to be among the top conscious hip-hop lyricists in the entire Bay Area, if not the entire country.With the recent release of Azeem's new video, "Latin R
March 3, 2009Condi Rice for Next SFPD Chief! And Other Ideas From Last Night's Tenderloin Policing Forum
Peter JamisonPolice Commission President Theresa Sparks (right) talks it outAhhhh, democracy. Try as we might, it never quite runs according to script, save in those enlightened, post-democratic nations -- such as Russia, Haiti or Uzbekistan -- that have figured out how to tame the snarling beast of representative government. San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, while it bears more than passing similarity to these locales in some respects, is no such place. This much could be seen at a commu
March 20, 2009B Zero
Cops say nonprofits and their landlord were gaming the bingo laws.
December 24, 2008No Sanctuary
Police slow to help crime victims who are here illegally.
December 17, 2008Stiffed
Amidst all the murders in San Francisco, some suspicious deaths are hidden in a secret burial ground of bureaucracy.
September 10, 2008SF Weekly Letters
August 20, 2008The 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.
August 6, 2008Gay Weddings We’d Really Like to See
June 25, 2008To Serve & Collect
June 4, 2008VideoGate cop injured on duty at his desk job
May 28, 2008Tricky Treat
October 10, 2007Earl’s Last Laugh
Exiled in retirement after Fajitagate, ex–Police Chief Earl Sanders has re-emerged with a fresh account of the infamous Zebra murders. And his critics are on the warpath.
February 21, 2007The First Step
February 14, 2007Image Problem
Why have SFPD Chief Heather Fong and Mayor Gavin Newsom pursued an overblown pseudo-scandal when there’s so much else on the department’s plate?
January 3, 2007Cops Who SPY
September 27, 2006No. 1 With a Bullitt
San Francisco's murder rate is at its highest level in a decade. Whose fault is that?
January 4, 2006Straight to Video
Dog Bites turns into a film critic to help us understand the Bayview police video scandal
December 14, 2005Fajita the Night
Were the cops really innocent of assault, or is our DA's Office just lame?
April 6, 2005San Francisco Dog Court
February 16, 2005Letters to the Editor
Week of Wednesday, November 17, 2004
November 17, 2004Lap Victory
How a DA's decision to drop prostitution charges against lap dancers will change the sexual culture of S.F. -- and, perhaps, the country
September 8, 2004Homeless, Edwardians, Very Old People Mix at '06 Quake Commemoration
All Photos | Joe EskenaziQuake survivors William Del Monte, 103, and Rose Cliver, 106. No, they don't let you wear a hat like that until you turn 100.As a convoy of archaic fire trucks led by an ethereally beautiful convertible Jaguar -- of the vintage that Isadora Duncan may or may not have died within it -- turned from McAllister onto Market, the old emergency vehicle's sirens began to wail. It was not quite 5 a.m., and the homeless men snoring on crushed cardboard boxes blearily shook the
April 20, 2009Activists Say SFPD is Trashing City ID Cards
Pretty fancy 'garbage'Neighborhood activists complained to supervisors today that San Francisco police officers are showing "disrespect" for people holding the municipal identification cards the city began distributing in January -- including one alleged incident where an officer in the Tenderloin told a man his city-issued ID was "garbage." At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors' Public Safety Committee, immigrant-rights activists from the Tenderloin and Mission districts said people in the
May 4, 2009Alleged Latino Mortgage Fraudster Accused of Preying on Own Community Headed to Court
Edwin Parada, a Mission-based real estate and mortgage broker who allegedly stole from Spanish-speaking immigrants seeking to buy, sell, or re-finance their homes, has been charged by San Francisco's district attorney with 24 criminal counts, including grand theft and tax evasion. We wrote a cover story on Paradas' alleged misdealings last year, when police investigators estimated he may have pocketed more than $1 million. The investigation has since rounded up 27 families who claim they w
June 5, 2009Friends, Family of Slain Frenchman Hugues de la Plaza Threaten to Sue City For Negligence
Hugues de la PlazaTwo years have come and gone since Hugues de la Plaza was found dead in his blood-stained Hayes Valley apartment. He had been stabbed twice in his torso and once in the throat, and the knife was nowhere to be found -- and witnesses reported the door repeatedly slamming at 2:30 in the morning. Astoundingly, the San Francisco Police Department's operating theory was suicide -- it was postulated that the 36-year-old may have taken the time to toss the knife out the window, where s
June 8, 2009What the Hell Is Guardian Thinking With Newsom-Police Chief-District 6 Love Triangle?
Pose with the mayor and he'll support your run for higher office. It's the law. Anyone who ever languished through a Rhetoric 1A course in college knows the joys of syllogisms: We won't delve into the ins and outs, but we do recall a few examples of spectacularly bad logic, along the lines of: A. My father is bald; B. Ben Franklin was bald; C. Therefore, my father was Ben Franklin. This manner of thinking was jarringly brought to mind when I read an article on the San Francisco Bay Guardian's po
June 10, 2009Police Commission Confirms Three Chief Hopefuls, Mayor Expected to Make Swift Choice
Police Commission President Theresa Sparks announced Wednesday she had forwarded to the mayor the names of three finalists in the race to replace retiring police chief Heather Fong."My perception, and this is just a guess, that the process will now move very quickly," said Sparks, following a closed hearing in which the Commission voted to refer to the mayor three names, which are being kept secret. "The Commission spent 49 hours interviewing, meeting with community members. It's been a clean pr
June 10, 2009Supes' Proposed $82M Cuts to Cops, Firefighters are 'Symbolic' -- But Portend Bare-Knuckle Budget Battle
The budget battle is under way...A shot across the bow. A brushback pitch. A dropping of the gauntlet. Call it what you will, but when the Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee yesterday approved $82 million in cuts from San Francisco's police, fire, and sheriffs' departments it was a statement. In essence, the Supes are putting it this way to Mayor Gavin Newsom: "You wanna cut social programs and health services and give the police, sheriffs, and firefighters more? Not without gett
June 11, 2009Heads of Fire, Police Departments Frown On Proposed Budget Cuts
Last night, the Board of Supervisors proposed cuts of about $82 million to the budgets of San Francisco police, fire and sheriff's departments. Today, those departments got together and called a press conference. Police Chief Heather Fong, Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, Police Commissioner Theresa Sparks, Police Commissioner Tim Mazzucco, Assistant Police Chief Jim Lynch, and Deputy Police Chief David Shinn all took turns explaining to jotting journalists and TV&nbs
June 11, 2009Know 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: One of the mayoral candidates in Houston has pledged to fire Hurtt if elected. No such quandary exists for George Gascon, the Mesa, Ariz. chief also widely acknowledged to be in the running for the
June 16, 2009Top 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 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
June 17, 2009The Wire: San Francisco's Orthodox Jews Rejoice, as They Can Now Legally Schlep Their Children On Sabbath
Stacey PalevskyRabbi Joshua Strulowitz of San Francisco's Orthodox Adath Israel watches as Supervisor Carmen Chu and Police Chief Heather Fong sign papers granting Jews the right to carry objects on the Sabbath. The chances are exactly 100 percent neither Chu nor Fong ever thought they'd be called upon to do this.In a story that may have slipped under the wire -- somewhat literally -- San Francisco last week got its first eruv since at least the days when Levi Strauss decided to make pants out o
June 23, 2009SFPD's shadow disciplinary system wastes taxpayer money
June 17, 2009Because Somebody Had To: Your Gubernatorial Look-Alikes Article
While perusing the New York Times Magazine's 26.3 billion-word article on the (wo)men who would rule California -- which may well spur the rest of us to consider the merits of Nevada, Oregon, or Arizona -- a thought hit us. Not an important thought, but a thought nevertheless.For reasons unknown, septuagenarian Attorney General Jerry Brown consented to be photographed next to a gnarled, old tree that only emphasized his own gnarliness. That's when it struck us: Brown is a dead ringer for Walter,
July 14, 2009'Text-a-Tip' Program Drags SFPD Into 21st Century. SFPD Web Site? Still Vintage 1994.
The SFPD Web Page induces nostalgia for the 1990s​When Police Chief George Gascon today announces San Francisco cops will soon have the ability to engage in real-time text message conversations with people who have witnessed -- or are witnessing -- a crime, it will be more than a technologically uplifting moment. It also marks one of the few socially redeeming uses for text-messaging. The knock on the SFPD has long been that its hardware and IT systems -- and data compilation -- are more antiq
August 19, 2009Activists say the SFPD is unfairly impounding and selling cars owned by illegal aliens
August 19, 2009Support Your Local Police: Cops Ask Permission to Accept Key Chains and Pistols
​Everyone harbors suspicions that police are enjoying deep discounts on coffee and donuts all over the city -- and, as department spokeswoman Sergeant Lyn Tomioka tells us, they usually are. But it's protocol to never accept anything for free. If the clerk insists, the common practice is to toss the price into the tip jar. There's a sound reason for this. It requires a ruling of the Police Commission in order for a cop to accept a "gift" of any value. A police officer must petition his or her
October 9, 2009Feds complain that S.F.'s sanctuary city policies impeded investigation of Latino gang
October 21, 2009Once a joke, SFPD is actually solving murders these days
November 4, 2009
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