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Death for spitting—and more key revelations from the Police Commission
Police Chief Bill Scott weighed in Wednesday night on the killing of Banko Brown, the assaults on homeless people in the Marina, and the role of the CHP and National Guard in the Tenderloin, and...
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All 11 supes are now challenging the DA on the Banko Brown case
The Board of Supes unanimously challenged the district attorney today, demanding the release of videos and witness statements from the shooting of Banko Brown. DA Brooke Jenkins is complaining that...
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Banko Brown video is horrifying—as is the response of the district attorney
As I wrote last week, I don’t see how Brooke Jenkins and London Breed get out of this. Jenkins was forced by public pressure, and pressure from all 11 supervisors, to release today the video, police...
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Chesa Boudin talks crime, justice—and what’s happened to SF under Brooke Jenkins
It’s been a year since a small percentage of the voters in San Francisco recalled Chesa Boudin from the office of district attorney. The recall was fueled by a radically unfair media narrative and $7...
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Hundreds who are by law innocent sit in SF jail because of court backlog
Sarina Borg sat in San Francisco County Jail for two and half years on a criminal charge that was ultimately dismissed. The San Francisco mother was accused of aiding and abetting a homicide in May...
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Among the drug traffickers you don’t hear about: The United States Border Patrol
Nothing riles up the electorate like fentanyl overdoses, which are now the leading cause of death of men between the age of 18 and 45. Governmental institutions from the FBI to local police...
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Newsom’s CHP plan will not make Oakland safer
When will our elected officials start making data driven decisions to address violence and increase public safety in our communities? Governor Newsom’s decision to send California Highway Patrol...
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The right-wing forces can’t blame their DA or their mayor, so they are...
The right-wing folks who helped recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin have a bit of a problem today: Crime is up in many categories, and certainly not down, since their candidate, Brooke Jenkins, took...
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Breed continues to push arrests as solution to substance-abuse issues
Mayor London Breed is doubling down on her strategy of arresting people who are not just dealing drugs but using drugs—and the evidence so far suggests that, as many of us suspected, it isn’t working....
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Right-wing attack on local judges is officially underway
We all knew it was going to happen, but the right-wing attack on San Francisco judges is now officially underway. The new War on Drugs isn’t working. Mayor London Breed now has her own district...
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Some perspective on the case of a brutal stabbing of an Asian senior
So I got this email today from StopCrimeSF, which tried without success to get rid of two judges in the March election: Stop Crime Action strongly condemns the judicial ruling handed down Friday for...
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