A new YouTube video presents a much clearer picture of what Police Chief Greg Suhr has called a “sprint of vandalism” in the Mission District following Occupy SF demonstrations earlier this month.
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The trigger-happy madman who was killed by a police sharpshooter in a Lower Nob Hill apartment Wednesday night had been wanted in connection with the slaying of his mother in Rohnert Park, police said.
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As budget season warms up, police Chief Greg Suhr is warning that The City’s low homicide rate could grow if more officers are not put on the streets.The Police Department’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year has increased to $480 million, Suhr told the Board of Supervisors budget committee last week. Nearly 90 percent of that is pre-negotiated pay, he said.
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A San Francisco man who apparently knew his victims was arrested Sunday in connection with the grisly slaying of five adults found Friday morning in the Ingleside neighborhood.Limited details were released Sunday regarding the ongoing investigation, but San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said that suspect Binh Thai Luc, 35, is being held on five counts of murder.
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San Francisco police discovered five adults dead in a home near City College of San Francisco Friday morning in a grisly crime that may have been a murder-suicide.
Although police do not yet know the details of the crime, in which at least some of the victims died from gunshot wounds, they believe it was confined to a single home at 16 Howth St. and are consequently not searching for a gunman, Police Chief Greg Suhr said.
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Five volunteer members of the Richmond Community Police Advisory Board resigned in the past week over another member being removed for possibly intimidating a city supervisor.The board has been proactive in addressing noise and safety issues involving businesses in the normally quiet neighborhood. But one member, Chris Rillo, apparently was too vocal.
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A judge has imposed strict sanctions against two Tenderloin markets that police and city officials had accused of maintaining “safe havens” for drug dealers and traffickers in stolen goods.Judge Harold Kahn earlier this month ordered Razan Deli at 391 Ellis St. closed for a year and imposed an $80,000 fine. City Attorney Dennis Herrera said the closure would provide “a measure of relief” for local residents.
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Police Chief Greg Suhr said Tuesday he wants the mayor to veto legislation that would open up to public scrutiny the department’s working relationship with the FBI’s counterterrorism unit.Suhr said the bill, passed Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors, would jeopardize the Police Department’s presence “in the room” of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which provides valuable crime-fighting information.“We do not support it,” Suhr said.
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A catastrophic earthquake strikes the Bay Area, and Oakland’s emergency responders can’t communicate with their San Francisco peers. Firefighters are called to a burning apartment building, but can’t see flames approaching across the complex. A child or Alzheimer’s sufferer is missing, but police in other cities lack a photo.
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The BART police officer who fatally shot a knife-wielding homeless man at the Civic Center station last summer “acted lawfully in self-defense,” the District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.In a seven-page report to police Chief Greg Suhr, District Attorney George Gascón wrote that “there appears no reasonable factual or legal basis upon which to charge” Officer James Crowell for the fatal shooting of 45-year-old Charles Hill on July 3.
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