Subject: Police

• Cheif Heather Fong Avoids the Chopping Block

  January 5, 2008

• The Case of the Missing Heather Fong Letter

  April 17, 2008

• Mirkarimi drops a bomb: Maybe the police should work for the Supes

  May 1, 2008

• San Francisco Police Department Can't Stop Homicides

  November 6, 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'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, 2008

• Cops vs. Cops

  April 19, 1995

• Report From the Commissioner?

  June 21, 1995

• Fire Trek

  June 21, 1995

• Paper Trails

  July 19, 1995

• Foreign-Born Dog Soldiers

  September 6, 1995

• Win Free Swag -- from the Cops!

  To protect and serve ... and give away swag!This just in from The Snitch's favorite police report writer, Capt. Paul Chignell of the Taraval Police Station: What is the name of the revered Deputy Chief of Police from the 1970s who lived on Santiago and died suddenly in his early 50s? First to answer correctly will be given 10 police stickers.Do you know? Are you a whiz with Google? Write the Captain here and get your free crap!

  March 12, 2009

• Comparing Public's Anguish -- and Reaction -- Regarding Police Murders, Oscar Grant Killing Is Natural, Justified -- and Wrong

  As the Bay Area's mood shifts from shock and horror over the senseless weekend murders of four Oakland police officers into a desire for the community to rise up and repudiate this sickening act, we can only measure the moments until some well-meaning soul utters the phrase "a teachable moment." This repudiation is all the more necessary, some elements within the community and media claim, because of the popular fervor surrounding the call for "justice" surrounding the Jan. 1 death of unarmed BA

  March 23, 2009

• Stay Away ... Please

  Can cops keep an accused drug dealer from roaming the Tenderloin?

  March 18, 2009

• 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.

  August 6, 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.

  June 4, 2008

• VideoGate cop injured on duty at his desk job

  May 28, 2008

• SF Weekly Letters

  March 19, 2008

• San Francisco Patrol Special Police: Rent-a-Cops With Guns

  March 5, 2008

• Cop Shortage Makes Newsom's Police Promise Look Unlikely

  January 30, 2008

• Who Killed Hugues de la Plaza?

  His parents are so frustrated with seeking the answer that they want to bring investigators from France into the case

  July 18, 2007

• The Bizarro Endorsement

  Liberal candidate may get a boost from the police organization that condemns him

  April 18, 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.

  February 21, 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?

  January 3, 2007

• Still Snoopin'

  December 20, 2006

• Cops Who SPY

  September 27, 2006

• Lifestyle Check

  A gay ex-cop buys a ranch in Gold Country and finds his own version of Brokeback Mountain

  May 3, 2006

• No. 1 With a Bullitt

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

  January 4, 2006

• Fajita the Night

  Were the cops really innocent of assault, or is our DA's Office just lame?

  April 6, 2005

• Surprise!

  If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

  January 21, 2004

• Toothless Wonder

  Why S.F.'s police watchdog agency has never been effective - and why Prop. H won't change that

  November 12, 2003

• Innocence Arrested

  Albert Johnson was exonerated for a crime he didn't commit, but not before spending over a decade in prison. Why guiltless people get jailed -- and how to stop it.

  October 29, 2003

• Fajita Backlash

  Our DA's ineptitude in dealing with a food-inspired police scandal may frustrate desperately needed reform of SFPD

  March 12, 2003

• Death and Access

  When police officers and death coincide, the public has a right to the official record of the event

  December 12, 2001

• Officer Down

  Steve Landi was a hero at 101 California and a cop to his bones. Why is the SFPD trying so hard to get rid of him?

  June 7, 2000

• Bunco Squad

  Police brass can't account for a rogue vice operation

  March 3, 1999

• Duck! You're in Wine Country

  Why do police in bucolic Santa Rosa kill more citizens per capita than cops in crime-ridden cities like San Francisco and New York?

  September 17, 1997

• The Grid

  April 2, 1997

• Crushing CRUSH

  November 29, 1995

• Cop Stop?

  A Jordan first: He lurches left on cop discipline

  November 22, 1995

• Cops Watching Cops

  Police watchdog agency the Office of Citizen Complaints braces for its fifth lame director

  June 14, 1995

• Supervisors Push for Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers

  San Francisco Eight, Board of Supervisors, Sophie Maxwell, Eric Mar, San Francisco Police Department, Sgt. John Young, Black Liberation Army, Black Panthers

  June 8, 2009

• Union President: Supervisors' Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers is 'Spitting in the Face of Every Cop in San Francisco'

  The Ingleside police station, where Sgt. John V. Young was killed in 1971The president of San Francisco's police union railed against supervisors Eric Mar and Sophie Maxwell today for their sponsorship of a resolution asking that charges be dropped against the seven men charged with killing a city police sergeant in 1971.Gary Delagnes of the San Francisco Police Officers Association said the resolution, which he characterized as "idiotic," is "going to send a pretty devastating message to the me

  June 8, 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 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, 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 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, 2009

• SFPD's shadow disciplinary system wastes taxpayer money

  June 17, 2009

• Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of General Strike Falls Amid Renewed Police-Labor Feud

  See you on the waterfrontThis Sunday, July 5, San Francisco's International Longshore and Warehouse Union will hold a procession to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Bloody Thursday, the clash between police and striking longshoremen during the city's 1934 General Strike that led to a permanent local rift between cops and stevedores.The San Francisco Labor Council is also going to be joining in the festivities, and is spreading the word about the event through its e-mail list. When we got one

  July 2, 2009

• The Outsider

  July 22, 2009

• Goin' Down South? With LAPD's Top Cop Stepping Down, Will George Gascon's Tenure in S.F. Be Brief?

  Hello, I must be going?​When San Francisco's police chief-to-be was introduced to throngs of media members in a rather small, stuffy room earlier this summer, your humble narrator got to ask George Gascon one question. And he gave us zero answers. "How long a commitment have you given the city?" we queried. "This is a great city and I've been made to feel very welcome," he replied. Well, okay then. That question looms a bit larger now with the news that William Bratton, the chief of the Los An

  August 5, 2009

• Time Bomb

  September 16, 2009

• Did Police Union Block New Chief From Hiring Outside Brass?

  Police Chief George Gascon​When George Gascon became chief of police two months ago, everybody seemed to agree: This bad-ass cop would rid the SFPD of its dead wood, and reform what experts had taken to calling the Western United States' most hidebound law enforcement agency.On Tuesday, Gascon is scheduled to suffer his first major setback in that quest, as the Board of Supervisors votes on a measure that effectively cancels the hope that Gascon will install his own leadership team from outsid

  October 5, 2009