Five months ago, two black homicide detectives got fed up with the Police Department's inaction on black-on-black murders. Thus was born the Crime Response Unit to Stop Homicide (CRUSH): six cops with the grit and guile to tackle the toughest cases in the
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
