At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the U.S.-supported national police, The Associated Press has determined, feeding accusations that they were victims of federal death squads.
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An AR-15 assault weapon was stolen from an unmarked police car over the weekend.
San Francisco police said Sunday night that the weapon — which gained notoriety last year in mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newton, Conn. — was in a cop car that was parked and secured when suspects broke into the vehicle and snatched the weapon.
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A 17-year-old girl was one of two people who were critically injured in vicious stabbings Tuesday, police said.
In the incident involving the teen, officers responded at 7 p.m. to a fight that broke out on Valencia Street between 20th and 21st streets. When the officers arrived, they learned that the 17-year-old had been stabbed and taken by friends to San Francisco General Hospital, police Officer Gordon Shyy said Wednesday.
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The Recreation and Park Department is poised to hire a new manager to oversee its beleaguered park patrol unit.
Robert Lotti, a veteran law enforcement officer who is the current chief of the Colma Police Department, will be formally introduced Aug. 14 as the new head of Rec and Park’s 25-member patrol unit.
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San Francisco police unveiled an ambitious plan Monday to eventually equip patrol officers with mobile devices that will allow them to remotely file police reports and access case information without having to return to the station.
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San Francisco police unveiled an ambitious plan Monday to eventually equip patrol officers with mobile devices that will allow them to remotely file police reports and access case information without having to return to the station.
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San Francisco’s police and fire departments are preparing for hundreds of retirees.
To address the imminent staffing shortages, Mayor Ed Lee is funding the beginning of a six-year hiring plan for both departments in his proposed city budget. The mayor’s budget includes three 50-member police academy classes next fiscal year and a 42-member firefighter academy class.
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Police in South San Francisco are searching for a couple who scammed a woman out of money and jewelry with the promise of sharing $100,000 in lottery winnings.
The victim, a 33-year-old South San Francisco woman, was walking in the 300 block of Maple Avenue on Friday when she was approached by a Hispanic man in his 30s with black hair and a patchy beard, police said.
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San Francisco police officers could not call one another on cellphones and were barely able to send text messages while patrolling the 49ers’ two recent playoff games at Candlestick Park, police Chief Greg Suhr said.
The communication breakdown during the NFC Championship Game shows just how challenging it could be for first responders to communicate with one another if there was a catastrophic event such as a major earthquake.
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Police are still hunting for three youths who beat an elderly man to death in a 2010 case that sparked racial tensions between blacks and Asians in the Bayview neighborhood.
A news conference will be held at the crime scene about 4 p.m. today.
Huan Zhou Chen, 83, had just left the Muni light-rail stop at Third Street and Oakdale Avenue on the evening of Jan. 24, 2010, and was on his way to his assisted-living facility when a group of boys assaulted him, police said.
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