Police

The Boy Scouts' Police Problem: Explorers Have Been Sexually Abused by Cops. Should Scouts Share the Blame?

Police Chief George Gascon Says Arizona Immigration Law Lets Thugs Run Wild

...Gascon says Arizona law will lead to lawlessness​San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon -- known for locking horns with anti-immigrant demagogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County while Gascon served as chief of police in Mesa, Arizona -- said the Grand Canyon State's much-maligned immigra ... More >>

SFPD: DNA Links Dead Man to Murder of San Franciscan Charles McAleer-Bonilla

Charles McAleer-Bonilla​The San Francisco Police Department is announcing that DNA evidence ties a suspected bank robber and kidnapper who recently died in a shootout with the Sacramento Sheriff's Department to the April stabbing death of San Franciscan Charles McAleer-Bonilla in Noe Valley.

Stung

Men don’t have to agree to sex in order to get busted in a prostitution sting. They just have to seem interested.

Did SFPD needlessly hound a rival officer while she lay dying of cancer?

Men don’t have to agree to sex in order to get busted in a prostitution sting. They just have to seem interested.

D.A. Kamala Harris Doesn't Know How Many S.F. Cops Are Also Criminals

​You heard that right: San Francisco District Attorney and Police Chief George Gascon said at a press conference this afternoon that they don't know how many police officers in San Francisco have past criminal convictions.The press conference came in the wake of damaging revelations in the San Fra ... More >>

Cops: S.F. Policies Would Likely Have Prevented BART's Glass-Shattering Incident Here

While being tossed through a plate-glass window is a staple of the action movie genre, it is less pleasant -- or common -- in reality. So when a BART police officer was caught over the weekend at West Oakland Station in a YouTube video titled "Officer Breaks Window With Drunks Face" it quickly beca ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Time Bomb

Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed an S.F. cop in the name of revolution.

SFPD possibly detained and released fugitive who later killed cop

Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed an S.F. cop in the name of revolution.

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?" w ... More >>

The Outsider

George Gascon is S.F.'s first police chief in 30 years who wasn't homegrown — and he's promising big changes. Criminals and lazy cops, you have been warned.

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 littl ... More >>

SFPD's shadow disciplinary system wastes taxpayer money

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 littl ... More >>

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 Co ... More >>

Supervisors Push for Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers

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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 p ... More >>

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." Thi ... More >>

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' ... More >>

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.

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.

VideoGate cop injured on duty at his desk job

Nearly extinct and long at odds with the SFPD, the little-known San Francisco Patrol Special Police appears poised for a comeback.

The Case of the Missing Heather Fong Letter

Nearly extinct and long at odds with the SFPD, the little-known San Francisco Patrol Special Police appears poised for a comeback.

SF Weekly Letters

Nearly extinct and long at odds with the SFPD, the little-known San Francisco Patrol Special Police appears poised for a comeback.

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

Nearly extinct and long at odds with the SFPD, the little-known San Francisco Patrol Special Police appears poised for a comeback.

Cop Shortage Makes Newsom's Police Promise Look Unlikely

Nearly extinct and long at odds with the SFPD, the little-known San Francisco Patrol Special Police appears poised for a comeback.

Cheif Heather Fong Avoids the Chopping Block

Nearly extinct and long at odds with the SFPD, the little-known San Francisco Patrol Special Police appears poised for a comeback.

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

The Bizarro Endorsement

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

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.

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?

Still Snoopin'

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?

Cops Who SPY

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?

Lifestyle Check

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

Fajita the Night

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

Surprise!

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

Toothless Wonder

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

Fajita Backlash

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

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?

Bunco Squad

Police brass can't account for a rogue vice operation

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?

The Grid

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

Crushing CRUSH

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

Cop Stop?

A Jordan first: He lurches left on cop discipline

Foreign-Born Dog Soldiers

U.S. police departments, including the SFPD, shun American-bred recruits for their canine corps

Paper Trails

U.S. police departments, including the SFPD, shun American-bred recruits for their canine corps

Report From the Commissioner?

Police Commissioner Anthony Rodriguez accused of halting police probe to protect OCC chief

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?

Cops Watching Cops

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

Cops vs. Cops

They look like cops. They carry guns like cops. They can even arrest you like cops. But San Francisco's patrol special officers are a different breed of police - one marked for extinction by the SFPD and powers that be.