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The San Francisco Police Department released video of the Sept. 4 officer-involved shooting of a man who rushed an officer while making stabbing motions with scissors.
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Recruit Officer Jon-Marques Psalms, 30, reportedly suffered a medical emergency after completing a training exercise on Wednesday August 20, 2025, at the Academy.
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The inmate grabbed one of the officers’ guns and fatally shot Detention Officer Francisco Flattes. Detention Officer George Fienauer was also injured in the attack.
Read More →Officer Timothy Ontiveros died Sunday night in an Albuquerque hospital after multiple surgeries, Bloomfield Police Chief Phillip Francisco said.
Read More →Opened as a prison in 1934, Alcatraz (“The Rock”) Federal Penitentiary is situated in San Francisco Bay and is now a museum. The prison closed in 1963.
Read More →The agency, which primarily safeguards national monuments in Washington, D.C.; New York City; and San Francisco, is at its lowest staffing level since 1975, according to Ken Spencer, chairman of the United States Park Police Fraternal Order of Police (FOP
Read More →A spokesperson for the police union said that the overtime cap for the police department has been repeatedly increased over the past few years, and is now at 2,000 (hours), with overages beyond that allowed in certain circumstances.
Read More →The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, which oversaw the crowd-control training exercise on May 21 and launched an investigation of the incident, has apologized to the students and their families as well as the faculty.
Read More →The proposition—which was placed on the ballot by Mayor London Breed—needed a simple majority to pass. In initial returns, the measure was winning with nearly 62% of the vote.
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Amid recruiting challenges of recent years, the San Francisco Police Department is set to graduate more recruits from the police academy than is has since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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