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Heather Fong

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Pot Busts Are a High Priority for Cops -- But They Shouldn't Be

    Waiting for Godot to fire up a joint​It'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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Heather Fong's Pension: $277,656 Per Year

    Heather Fong has become the poster child for oversize pensions​While former Police Chief Heather Fong was about as far from universally popular as you can get, few would question her work ethic. And yet, no matter how diligently the former chief performed her duties, it's hard not to drop one's ja ... More >>

  • News

    August 25, 2010

    Workers' comp covers retired cops who get cancer

    Heather Fong has become the poster child for oversize pensions​While former Police Chief Heather Fong was about as far from universally popular as you can get, few would question her work ethic. And yet, no matter how diligently the former chief performed her duties, it's hard not to drop one's ja ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Nine Hundred Ex-S.F. Employees Earn $100K Pensions -- or Higher

    ​Whatever you're thinking of buying, whatever you've bought, whatever you will buy -- you can't afford it. Trust us. We've read the report. Today's publication by the city's Civil Grand Jury is titled "Pension Tsunami: The Billion Dollar Bubble." Its title is the only part of it that is entertaini ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    San Francisco's Marijuana Arrest Totals Getting Higher

    Put out that joint, mister...​What's that smell in the air, wafting from bus stops, parks, and most any street corner? It's evidence of a cavalier attitude regarding open-air cannabis consumption: This is San Francisco, after all -- feel free to puff away freely. Or, maybe not. According to statis ... More >>

  • News

    November 4, 2009

    Once a joke, SFPD is actually solving murders these days

    Put out that joint, mister...​What's that smell in the air, wafting from bus stops, parks, and most any street corner? It's evidence of a cavalier attitude regarding open-air cannabis consumption: This is San Francisco, after all -- feel free to puff away freely. Or, maybe not. According to statis ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2009

    Feds complain that S.F.'s sanctuary city policies impeded investigation of Latino gang

    Put out that joint, mister...​What's that smell in the air, wafting from bus stops, parks, and most any street corner? It's evidence of a cavalier attitude regarding open-air cannabis consumption: This is San Francisco, after all -- feel free to puff away freely. Or, maybe not. According to statis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Support 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 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 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 u ... More >>

  • News

    August 19, 2009

    Activists say the SFPD is unfairly impounding and selling cars owned by illegal aliens

    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 u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    Because 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, se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    The 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 u ... 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 >>

  • News

    June 17, 2009

    SFPD's shadow disciplinary system wastes taxpayer money

    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 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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    Supes' 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 s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    Heads 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 Co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    What 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Police 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Friends, 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 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Alleged 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Activists 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    Homeless, 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 die ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    Condi 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Azeem 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 piec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    Tenderloin 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 ... 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

    December 31, 2008

    11th 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 th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    Fong 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' ... More >>

  • News

    December 24, 2008

    B Zero

    Cops say nonprofits and their landlord were gaming the bingo laws.

  • News

    December 17, 2008

    No Sanctuary

    Police slow to help crime victims who are here illegally.

  • News

    September 10, 2008

    Stiffed

    Amidst all the murders in San Francisco, some suspicious deaths are hidden in a secret burial ground of bureaucracy.

  • News

    August 20, 2008

    SF Weekly Letters

    Amidst all the murders in San Francisco, some suspicious deaths are hidden in a secret burial ground of bureaucracy.

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2008

    The Chief Is In: Is She Accountable?

    Amidst all the murders in San Francisco, some suspicious deaths are hidden in a secret burial ground of bureaucracy.

  • 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.

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2008

    After 14 Years, His SFPD Paperwork is Approved

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

  • News

    June 25, 2008

    Gay Weddings We’d Really Like to See

    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

    May 28, 2008

    VideoGate cop injured on duty at his desk job

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

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2008

    The Case of the Missing Heather Fong Letter

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

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2007

    Halloween Headlines: Cops, BART, Parking, Protests, Funerals

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

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2007

    Castro Halloween: ‘100,000 People are Coming. Where Will They Urinate?’

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

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2007

    Newsom’s Resign-O-Rama: Sixteen Reasons it Could Become a Fiasco

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

  • News

    February 21, 2007

    Earl’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.

  • News

    February 14, 2007

    The First Step

    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.

  • News

    January 3, 2007

    Image 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?

  • News

    September 27, 2006

    Cops Who SPY

    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?

  • News

    January 4, 2006

    No. 1 With a Bullitt

    San Francisco's murder rate is at its highest level in a decade. Whose fault is that?

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    Straight to Video

    Dog Bites turns into a film critic to help us understand the Bayview police video scandal

  • News

    November 17, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, November 17, 2004

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