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.
We reported last week on a public relations standoff between our local cops' union and the Muni bus system: The cops dropped off a pile of posters seeking witnesses to the murder of a 17-year-old boy, hoping they'd be plastered in city buses and trains. But a Muni official nixed the plan. Happily, skilled diplomat and Muni spokesman Judson True cobbled together a same-day truce, whereby the Police Officers Association will produce new posters according to Muni's size and paper-stock specs.In the
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 father is bald; B. Ben Franklin was bald; C. Therefore, my father was Ben Franklin. This manner of thinking was jarringly brought to mind when I read an article on the San Francisco Bay Guardian's po
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