SFPD Archives

Bill to Prohibit Law Enforcement From Posting Some Mugshots Online Signed Into Law

July 26, 2021 10:58 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law this weekend to prohibit law enforcement officers from sharing mugshots of individuals arrested for nonviolent crimes into law. Assembly Bill 1475, authored by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), would also require police...

San Francisco Mid-Year Crime Statistics Show General Rise of Crime in City

July 13, 2021 4:30 amJuly 29, 2021 10:59 am

San Francisco Mayor London Breed and San Francisco Police Department Chief Bill Scott announced the mid-year crime statistics of San Francisco, showing a general uptick in crime in the city. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story,...

San Francisco To Reallocate $3.75 Million From SFPD Budget to Black-Owned Businesses in City

May 7, 2021 2:36 amMay 10, 2021 3:47 pm

San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced on Wednesday that $3.75 million of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) budget would be redirected to black-owned businesses in the city. The reinvestment by the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) and...

Lawlessness in San Francisco Blamed on District Attorney Chesa Boudin

September 13, 2020 9:10 amSeptember 13, 2020 5:31 pm

The San Francisco Marina Times has a story about a meth-addicted homeless vagrant who was caught on video surveillance in August burgling a commercial building in the Mission District. Members of the San Francisco Police Department recognized the guy and...

Congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine filed another police report against Omar Navarro after his arrest.

UPDATE: Threats Continue Even After Congressional Candidate Navarro Arrested and Posted Bail For Violating A Restraining Order

December 10, 2019 10:15 amDecember 11, 2019 9:07 am

UPDATE below: Conservative commentator and California GOP Congressional Candidate DeAnna Lorraine filed another police report on Congressional candidate Omar Navarro a day after he was arrested for violating a restraining order, as the California Globe reported. Navarro, who is also...

In Jeff Adachi Case, a Tale of Two Different Autopsies

August 26, 2019 8:54 pmAugust 27, 2019 8:16 am

Former San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi died suddenly in February from a case of acute mixed drug toxicity exacerbated by a previously-unknown coronary disease. That’s the official line from the autopsy conducted by the San Francisco medical examiner’s office,...

News employee exposed freelance journalist at center of Adachi leak

August 5, 2019 1:35 pmAugust 5, 2019 2:14 pm

A newsroom employee led police to a freelance journalist whose home and business were raided in May in connection with the leak of a confidential police report on the death of former San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. The reporter...