More than double the number of murders have occurred this year compared to the same time frame last year, but on Thursday, a San Francisco police captain insisted the bloodshed will level off.The uptick in killings is raising concern and prompting calls from several members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to do more to fight crime.
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Sometimes a robot just can’t replace a human, as was the case this morning in Potrero Hill when the San Francisco Police Department bomb squad arrived to take care of five or six grenades left over from grandpa’s war chest.The newscasters over at KTVU watched with amusement and then shocked disbelief this morning as a bag containing grenades ripped open while in the grasp of the bomb squad robot.
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The San Francisco Giants and 49ers both count on San Francisco police officers to patrol their ballparks during games, but with budget cuts draining the resources of the department, some are rethinking that arrangement.
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At an intersection near the Balboa Park BART station Friday, a man who was text messaging was punched in the mouth and robbed of his cell phone.There has been an uptick in such incident around Bay Area, particularly in denser urban areas, and residents say they have been assaulted and robbed in public while texting, e-mailing, tweeting or posting updates on Facebook.
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A 10-year-veteran officer of the San Francisco Police Department is facing jail time and termination on suspicion of taking a car registration sticker from someone he pulled over and putting it on his own personal car.
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A pot buyer was beaten up for disputing the cost of the marijuana he illegally tried to purchase in the Upper Haight on Tuesday, police said. The 33-year-old man was hospitalized after the deal went up in smoke near Alvord Lake in Golden Gate Park around 2:30 p.m. The female dealer’s “cohorts” attacked and beat up the buyer, police said.Police responded and searched the area, arresting a 49-year-old man for the assault, police said.
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Gun-toting thugs punched and kicked a woman while she was on the ground during the robbery of a Mission district store on Tuesday, police said.The violent heist occurred at a shop near 24th Street and South Van Ness Avenue around 6:20 p.m. Two goons pushed a 34-year-old woman to the back of the store. Then a 38-year-old man walked into the store, and he also was ordered to the back of the store, police said.
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A $50 heist landed three people in jail Wednesday.The suspects, two men and a woman ranging in age between 55 and 67, held a man at knife-point inside a room in the 800 block of O’Farrell Street around 12:15 a.m., police said.A 67-year-old man is accused of wielding the knife. The suspects stole a wallet from the victim, a 47-year-old man. The victim managed to leave the room and fetch police.
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A 48-year-old man was jumped and robbed of his cell phone Monday night by two brutes in their 20s at 24th and Dolores streets, cops said. One of the suspects punched the victim in the face, causing him to fall to the ground, at around 10:30 p.m., police said. They then grabbed his phone and fled, cops said. The victim refused treatment for a small cut to his right cheek, police said.There were no arrests.rnagle@sfexaminer.com
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An SFPD inspector terminated in 2009 in part because of an incident involving Antioch police has settled a lawsuit against that city for $750,000. Marvetia Richardson claimed in a federal civil rights suit that she was unnecessarily shocked with a Taser by Antioch police. The incident happened during a dispute with a tenant at her home in which police got involved.
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