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Petra DeJesus

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    September 23, 2011

    SF Cops Join LA's Finest In Disputing RAND Study's Findings That Marijuana Clubs Don't Cause Crime

    Not the club's fault​What with the company's deep connections to the American war machine, the RAND Corporation isn't exactly a pack of hippies. Which makes it all the more surprising that the policy-think tank released a study this week declaiming that medical marijuana dispensaries cause a ... More >>

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    February 9, 2011

    Fake Pot Crime Stats Continue to Gall Police Commissioner, Cannabis Patients

    Giving the green light​Petra DeJesus isn't angry -- she's just frustrated. The criminal defense attorney and San Francisco Police Commissioner last year publicly remonstrated then-Captain Denise Schmitt of the SFPD's Taraval Station for Schmitt's claims that medical cannabis dispensaries cause cri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Marijuana Roundup: The Year In Pot

    ​How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Cops Can't Link Crimes Near Pot Clubs to Pot Clubs

    Is he robbing you because there's a pot club 100 feet away? Or just because he's robbing you? The cops have no idea.​Glide Memorial Church is an oasis in the Tenderloin, a sanctuary amidst some of the starkest examples of human wreckage many of us will ever see. Nobody would call Glide dangero ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    SNAFU Will Result in Three Fewer Police Commissioners Next Month

    Ladies and gentlemen, your new police commissioners! ​"Put it off, put it off, blow it off" makes for one hell of a senior quote. But it's no way to run a municipal government. Well, welcome to San Francisco. A delay in appointing and/or reappointing members of the Police Commission until it was j ... More >>

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