Subject: San Francisco District Attorney's Office

• Alleged S.F. Road Warrior Omeed Popal to Face 35 Felony Counts

  January 8, 2008

• Slim’s Bouncer Beatdown Update: Security Guard’s Lengthy Criminal Record

  February 18, 2008

• Public Defender: First Norteño Convicted for Violating Gang Injunction a Dubious Victory in City's Battle with Street Gangs

  Earlier this week, the San Francisco District Attorney successfully tried the first case against a Norteño gang member for violating the city's gang injunction, which bans members from hanging out in a "safety zone" in the Mission. A brainchild of City Attorney Dennis Herrera, the gang injunctions have drawn outcry from civil rights groups and neighborhood activists. (Read our cover story on the injunction here.) Yet to what degree the conviction constitu

  February 4, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  November 19, 2008

• He's No Angel

  June 18, 2008

• Politics didn't play into decision not to prosecute domestic violence case, DA says

  December 19, 2007

• Untouchable

  Half of U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's lawyers have quit. But as he remains bunkered against criticism, who's minding the shop?

  October 4, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, January 25, 2006

  January 25, 2006

• Fajita the Night

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

  April 6, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of February 2, 2005

  February 2, 2005

• Zipped Up

  S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?

  January 19, 2005

• Toothless Wonder

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

  November 12, 2003

• Hey, Man, Got Any ID?

  Why the Legislature shouldn't extend the city's medical marijuana identification system statewide

  June 11, 2003

• See No Evil

  S.F. Archbishop William Levada styles himself as a leading advocate for openness among Catholic leaders on the clergy sex-abuse issue. So why doesn't he practice what he preaches?

  May 21, 2003

• The Russian Card Game

  A peek inside a new form of Russian organized crime and an ingenious method of turning credit card mailings into large amounts of cash

  February 12, 2003

• Rebuilding Credit

  San Francisco's Providian Financial was once the most despised company in the credit card industry. Now, after a humbling fall, it just wants to be loved.

  April 17, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  Cleaning Up the Cash; A Group Hug; Burning Bush; Correction

  November 14, 2001

• Now, the Emphatic Colonic News

  Chevron to Turks: Bay is pristine! GOP to pot doctor: Good job! Tenants to landlords: You're illegal! Potheads to supervisors: Like, wow -- a sanctuary!

  July 18, 2001

• Dog Bites

  Details, Details; Problem Is, It's Hard to Read in the Dark; PG&E Strikes Back

  April 18, 2001

• Postscript

  From Russia With Sleaze

  May 31, 2000

• The Land of Blood & Money

  Foreign workers coming into the country for high-paying tech jobs often bring wives with them. When these women are beaten and abused, they have nowhere to run.

  May 3, 2000

• Benign Neglect

  There's a pot of money available to investigate real estate fraud, but Terence Hallinan isn't using it

  November 24, 1999

• Angel of Theft

  A high-flying New Age company is grounded amid allegations that its main financial backer embezzled $4.5 million from UCSF

  November 10, 1999

• Letters

  July 14, 1999

• Cothran

  June 16, 1999

• Invasion of the Coffee Shops

  Forgive and Remember

  November 25, 1998

• The Housing Authority's Dirty Dozen

  Twelve convicted drug dealers and other major felons have recently been employed by the San Francisco Housing Authority. But are there even more criminals on the public payroll?

  July 22, 1998

• Perverted Justice?

  Or is a new law that puts sexual predators in long-term psychiatric lock-up really -- and finally -- justice for perverts?

  June 3, 1998

• Dog Bites

  September 24, 1997

• The Art of the Steal

  Harcourts Gallery was at the center of S.F.'s serious art scene for decades. Now, with serious money missing, the gallery's at the center of a criminal investigation.

  March 12, 1997

• Dead Heat

  Despite the deaths of Aaron Williams and Mark Garcia, the SFPD continues to use pepper spray on suspects who stand a good chance of dying in custody.

  May 15, 1996

• SF Gov InAction: The Supes Have SUCH Good Intentions This Week That One of These Laws Just HAS to Work!

  Monday, Aug 17 11 a.m. - Public Safety Committee A lot's happened to the Public Safety Committee since the last time I wrote about it -- and there's one thing I just don't understand. Ross Mirkarimi used to be the chair of the Public Safety Committee, and he was exceptional at pulling the many tangled threads of San Francisco's attempts to keep its citizens safe from crime (the better to lecture us about not smoking) into an organized weave. City crime mattered to him both as a humanitarian

  August 17, 2009