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Business owners in San Francisco are reportedly pleased with the SFPD's increase in foot patrol activity in various neighborhoods.
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San Francisco politicians abruptly cut funding for their police department to obtain TASERs, putting yet another roadblock in place in a years-long effort to add the ECDs to SFPD officers’ duty belts.
Read More →Robert Arcos would be the first Latino police chief of the city. Bill Scott, who left the LAPD to lead the troubled San Francisco Police Department, is African American. Michel Moore, whose father was a Basque immigrant, was already in the top echelons of the LAPD when the other two candidates were appointed to their first station commands.
Read More →“Chris was fired for doing what he was trained to do by the SFPD Academy, and for what happened on his fourth day on the job under extremely stressful and difficult circumstances,” union chief Marty Halloran wrote in a statement. “This was a needless action as any taken by someone wearing the uniform of our chief.”
Read More →Central Lake Armor Express Inc. has been awarded a new, two-year contract with the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and San Francisco Sheriff's Department (SFSD) to provide its Vortex IIIA Gen 2 ballistic vest.
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San Francisco police will suspend the department's much-criticized collaboration with FBI counterterrorism efforts, police said Wednesday, in an announcement that was celebrated by civil liberties and immigration advocates.
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LAPD Deputy Chief William "Bill" Scott, the department’s highest-ranking African American officer, has been appointed chief of the San Francisco Police Department.
Read More →A report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice accuses the San Francisco Police Department of implicit and institutionalized bias against minority groups.
Read More →'Reform or don't get paid' is the message Supervisor John Avalos is sending to the San Francisco Police Department as part of the Board of Supervisors' review of Mayor Ed Lee's $9.6 billion budget proposal.
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New pistol training guidelines require police recruits to hear the command "threat" before they fire at targets, to shoot only two rounds at a time, and to stop and reassess threats after every two shots.
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