Police Chief George Gascón vehemently denied that a major investigation was taking place at the Police Department involving narcotics and money laundering, claiming his words Wednesday to the San Francisco Police Officer’s Association Board of Directors were taken out of context.
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San Francisco police will attend a memorial service on Friday to mourn former police Chief Alex Fagan, who passed away last week.Fagan, a 31-year veteran who served as the department’s 37th police chief from 2003 to 2004, died on Nov. 8.
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It looks like the Police Commission is going to move soon on changing its current policy on shooting at moving vehicles.
The commission is scheduled on Dec. 8 to hear an amendment to the Department’s general orders that would make it policy to not shoot at oncoming vehicles even if the driver is trying to run the officer down.
“I think we need to move on that sooner rather than later,” said Police Commission Vice President Thomas Mazzucco on Wednesday.
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San Francisco’s crime rate continues to plummet — it’s down 9 percent so far this year — after some of the most deadly years in decades, police Chief George Gascón said Thursday.
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An attempted robbery was discovered by San Francisco Police Department early Monday morning an hour after two successful robberies were reported.
This latest attempt happened around 4:40 a.m. Monday, when a 25-year-old man attempted to get into a cab in the 1000 block Mission Street, according to police, when two men approached him.
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As voters prepare to decide the fate of Proposition M, which would mandate police foot patrols, Chief George Gascón is supporting the removal of one such officer from the tight-knit community of Bernal Heights.
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A deranged man attacked a couple walking along The Embarcadero Sunday.
The suspect swung a glass bottle at the victim’s wife during the attack, which occurred just south of Grant Avenue around 8 p.m., police said.
The incident began when the lunatic suddenly began yelling “racial and derogatory statements” at the couple. The husband stood in the way of the attacker’s opportunity to strike his wife, police said.
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Police activity created a stir at a gas station on San Francisco's 19th Avenue today before officers determined the call they were responding to had no merit.
A resident near 19th Avenue and Santiago Street called police shortly before 1 p.m. to report three people on a fire escape, two armed with guns, police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.
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A woman who accepted a ride with an apparent stranger Sunday was kidnapped and attacked with a hammer, police said.
The 57-year-old woman was trying to flag a taxi in the 2000 block of Market Street when the suspect, described as a 50-year-old white man, offered her a ride to 16th and Mission streets around 1 a.m., police said.
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A woman who accepted a ride with an apparent stranger Sunday was kidnapped and attacked with a hammer, police said.
The 57-year-old woman was trying to flag a taxi in the 2000 block of Market Street when the suspect, described as a 50-year-old white man, offered her a ride to 16th and Mission streets around 1 a.m., police said.
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