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Kamala Harris: Is She Really the Nation's Foxiest AG?

President Obama yesterday calling out Kamala Harris as, "by far, the best-looking Attorney General," was, unquestionably, an odd moment. It was a clunky thing to do for a man with strong reputations as both an egalitarian and a glib orator; it'd be akin to watching Richard Petty driving slowly in th ... More >>

Hate Crimes Against Latinos Rise 47 Percent in California

​The year 2010 saw a marked uptick in hate crimes against Latinos statewide, according to newly released statistics from the California Attorney General's office.Attorney General Kamala Harris' annual report on hate crimes -- incidents in which victims are targeted because of their ethnicity, sexu ... More >>

Gascon Says He Will Seek The Death Penalty In Cases That 'Warrant' It

Death Penalty Supporter​It's no secret that San Francisco's District Attorney's Office and The Police Department have a long history of tension and soured relations, even long before the fajitagate incident when the famously left-wing Terence Hallinan indicted the top brass of the SFPD.Things didn ... More >>

Will Federal Crime Lab Reform Affect California?

​Perhaps not, according to an interesting report published yesterday by California Watch.Kendall Taggart writes that some of the foremost advocates for reforming the field of forensic science within California are skeptical as to whether new legislation proposed by U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy will imp ... More >>

A Timeline of Problems at the SFPD DNA Lab

​Through reporting over the past month, SF Weekly has uncovered multiple instances of scientifically and ethically questionable conduct by DNA analysts at the San Francisco Police Department Crime Laboratory. Our findings focus on two lapses in particular: the destruction of records of a potential ... More >>

DADT Repeal: With All Deliberate Speed -- Or None At All?

​The Week in GayThe repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is fucking mess, but I think there might be a way to fix things. If we act quickly. This is a real longshot -- and it's not guaranteed to work -- but we need get our hands on some mercury. Lots of it. A flock of Ibises in Florida has been rendered ... More >>

Mayor's Office: Kamala Harris Will *Not* Name Her Successor

I didn't say that thing I said...​Earlier today, SF Weekly noted that reports of Mayor Gavin Newsom allowing District Attorney Kamala Harris to name her own replacement came as a surprise to even the DA's office. Turns out the mayor was a bit surprised, too. Mayoral spokesman Tony Winnicker said t ... More >>

Kamala Harris Wins Attorney General Race as Steve Cooley Concedes

Tyra Banks' AG of choice, Kamala Harris, is the big winner​Say what you will about Steve Cooley, but the man can do math. The Republican candidate for attorney general would have had to beat Kamala Harris by insane margins among uncounted ballots in Harris-leaning counties. Not going to happen -- ... More >>

Gavin Newsom Cruises to Victory. Kamala Harris Tossup. Political Bedlam to Ensue in S.F.

Richard Haick The Giants are coming home, and Gavin is leaving it​Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday succeeded in his long quest to get out of San Francisco politics, handily winning his race for lieutenant governor -- and leaving an unknown and yet-to-be-determined successor to humiliate the mayor of A ... More >>

Attention, Guardianistas: Here are your endorsements.

Isaac Espinoza's Sad Legacy

Isaac Espinoza, 1974-2004​Most of us never met Isaac Espinoza, but we owe him more than we can say. In 2004, the 29-year-old decorated cop was pointlessly gunned down by David Hill, a young man with a lengthy criminal history.  Espinoza repeatedly turned down cushier beats than Bayview. His d ... More >>

Two Haters, a Home-Burner and a Skyscraper Climber in Court Today

Not above the law in SF​Say what you want about District Attorney Kamala Harris -- the Attorney General candidate is a "different kind of prosecutor," according to a lengthy profile published in today's Los Angeles Times, and true to form, her office prosecutes different kinds of cases. And how. F ... More >>

Lionel Sevilla, Cop Accused in Cover-Up, Suspended

Good news, boys! Sevilla's keepin' his job! ​The Chronicle is reporting that Lionel Sevilla, a veteran cop accused of instructing a young police officer to lie about a prisoner's escape, will be suspended -- seven years after the alleged incident. SF Weekly's search of the city's most recent payro ... More >>

Doctor Gets 11 Years for 'Inappropriate and Unprofessional' Vaginal Exams on Latinas

​A San Francisco doctor who catered to Spanish-speaking patients has been sentenced to almost 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting women in his care with unnecessary "pelvic examinations."Jose Rosas, a general practitioner from Peru, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years and eight months in ... More >>

Jimmy Jen, Former City Building Official, Charged with 232 Felonies

The Alexandria Theater is among Jimmy Jen's allegedly fraudulent projects​Jimmy Jen, a former city plan-checker and private engineer, has been charged with 232 felonies stemming from alleged fraud on construction projects throughout the city.San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris asserted i ... More >>

Psychotherapist Steven Allan Korn Arrested and Charged with Boinking Patient

​A weird press release just came in and confused the shit out of us. Apparently, a San Francisco psychotherapist, Steven Allan Korn, has been arrested and charged with two misdemeanors for having sex with a twenty-something female patient during therapy sessions. Since when is sex not allowed in t ... More >>

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 >>

Grandpa Allegedly Molested 8-Year-Old at School, Saying He Was Bringing Her A Snack

D.A. Kamala Harris​A 68-year-old man has been charged with felony sexual assault for allegedly attacking his eight-year-old step-granddaughter, the district attorney's office announced today.Erica Derryck, spokeswoman for D.A. Kamala Harris, said in a press release that Pedro Hernandez was caught ... More >>

Kamala Harris' Alleged Stalker Pens Epic 44-Page 'Press Release'

​It came in a manilla envelope with three American flag stamps, entitled "Important Pre-Election Press Release." Return address: David Bavineau (ecstatic), County Jail 4, 850 Bryant St. Over at SF Weekly, we tore the thick envelope open with no small amount of anticipation. Bavineau, as some may r ... More >>

Election 2010 Results: Demon Sheep, Gavin Newsom, Open Primaries Triumph

Meg Whitman never liked voting, but plenty of Californians voted for her​Results are starting to roll in from today's voting on ballot initiatives and primaries for statewide office. Wanna know the latest, greatest bad decisions California's electorate has chosen to impose upon itself? SF Weekly h ... More >>

Kamala Harris Calls AG Opponent Chris Kelly Liar, 'Rookie' in Latest Attack Ad

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has launched a new television ad attacking former Facebook executive Chris Kelly, her foremost adversary in the Democratic primary for the California Attorney General's race.In this latest bout of mud-slinging between Harris and Kelly, the D.A.'s campaig ... More >>

Latest in Crime Lab Backlash: District Attorney Creates 'Trial Integrity Unit'

Meanwhile, down at the crime lab...​In the latest step -- there are, presumably, 12 -- back from the Deborah "Skimming the Coke" Madden scandal at the crime lab, District Attorney Kamala Harris has created a special in-house unit. The newly formed group will review cases in which prosecu ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz -- Win the Car of the Future!

Get yours today!​That's right: Get a perfect score, e-mail it to me here, and you can win the (toy) CAR OF THE FUTURE. It looks nothing like the photo above, by the way. We think it's way cooler. 1. A Republican candidate for governor this week suggested California do what with pedophiles? A. Exec ... More >>

D.A. Kamala Harris Appoints Iran-Contra Prosecutor to Handle S.F. Criminal Cop Scandal

John Keker, who went after Iran-Contra defendant Oliver North (pictured), will soon be looking into the SFPD.​District Attorney Kamala Harris announced today that she will appoint a high-powered private attorney to review the growing scandal over her office's failure to disclose the criminal backg ... More >>

Wife-Beating Cops Can Keep it a Secret? Public Defender Not Pleased.

Public Defender Jeff Adachi, pictured at a press conference last month​Public Defender Jeff Adachi said this afternoon that he has serious misgivings about District Attorney Kamala Harris' appointment of a private attorney to review which cases of police officers' criminal misconduct should be dis ... More >>

Public Defender Jeff Adachi Says D.A. Kamala Harris Blowing Off Crime Lab Scandal -- and Him

Public Defender Jeff Adachi ain't happy with D.A. Kamala Harris​San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi sharply criticized District Attorney Kamala Harris' handling of a growing scandal at the San Francisco Police Department crime lab today, saying the city's top prosecutor had ignored repeated ... More >>

Rival AG Candidate Throws Fund-Raiser on Kamala Harris' Turf

Yeah, but how much money did he raise?​SoCal Assemblyman and Attorney General candidate Ted Lieu -- who earlier publicized a poll showing he was drawing a fat 7 percent of the electorate thus far -- has now made another bold move. Lieu yesterday held a fund-raiser here in the city, essentially in ... More >>

Stalker threatens D.A. (an opponent of the death penalty) with the electric chair

DA Announces Sweeping Broke Niggas Thievin' Gang Indictment

​District Attorney Kamala Harris announced today that 10 members and associates of the notorious Bayview street gang known as Broke Niggas Thievin' have been indicted by a San Francisco criminal grand jury for dozens of felonies, including three murder charges.The indictment came after three month ... More >>

The ABCs of Ditching School

Schools are trying to contain their truancy epidemic. How're they doing? Just ask the students smoking pot less than a block from campus.

Will a big-name Dem run away with the attorney general's race?

Dwindling Dollars in Attorney General Race May Not Be Due to Recession

Do I have any money? Not for you!​Guess what? Jackie Speier isn't running for Attorney General. Who knew? Now that we've gotten that out of the way, on to the article. We thought it was interesting last week when the campaign of San Francisco District Attorney -- and would-be AG -- Kamala Harris s ... More >>

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 >>

In Wake of Unpleasant Poll, Kamala Harris Trumpets Fund-Raising Totals

'One million dollars!'​According to a press release Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris fired off about an hour ago, her campaign raised more than a million bucks in the last half of 2009. But according to a poll leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle -- she'll need it. The J. Moore Methods su ... More >>

Kamala Harris Hasn't Made Friends With S.F. Cops -- But That May Not Cost Her in the End

Kamala Harris​In many American towns, the debate over the merits of Chevy or Ford pickup trucks is no laughing matter. In a nerdier milieu -- one less likely to cause a bar fight at least -- Apple and PC partisans snipe at each other smarmily. And here in San Francisco, we have our own endless, ta ... More >>

So, Top City Elected Officials Lost 2.45 Percent of Their Salaries? Here's What They Could Have Bought.

Apparently, even this guy has been forced to give up $4.90 every time he passes "Go"​The official reason that 18 of the city's highest paid elected officials will take a minuscule pay cut was a recent city charter. But you could trace this one back to the Code of Hammurabi. Way down at the end, it ... More >>

Kamala Harris Benefit Announced

Cali's Next Top Cop? Kamala D. Harris It takes a lot of cojones to stand up for what you think is right in the political world, especially when faced with high-level pressure. Though she's generated controversy and made a few formidable enemies in law enforcement circles, SF DA Kamala Harris ... More >>

California Courts to Prostitute Recruiters: If She's Already Hooking, Go for It!

Now my only troubles are with the fashion police.In November, San Francisco failed to pass Proposition K , which would have decriminalized prostitution -- indicating a majority of city dwellers still think it should be illegal to pay or be paid for sex. Yet in a ruling handed down in state court las ... More >>

San Francisco Police Department Can't Stop Homicides

Prop. K Backers Hope to Ride No on 8's Wings

Not Present

Former truants relapse, stay away from attendance awards in droves.

AsianWeek Strikes B(l)ack!

Sistah Kamala

Let It Bleed

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

Zipped Up

S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?

Lap 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

Letters to the Editor

Week of October 22, 2003

Letters to the Editor

Week of October 8, 2003

Kamala's Karma

She's smart, she's experienced, and she's running for DA. But she's Willie Brown's ex-girlfriend, and her opponents are trying to crucify her for that.