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Tagged with: criminal justice

The Agenda, May 2-May 9: Will the mayor meet with the hunger strikers?

The hunger strike for police accountability is now well into its second week, and still not one word – seriously, not one word –...

The Agenda, April 4-10: Changing the DCCC rules (again), the first Kim-Wiener debate ….

Let us start this week with Airbnb. The company has finally decided, after many years, to help the city crack down on what everyone...

Some Mother’s Daughter: Fighting the criminalization of sex workers

Imagine a woman goes missing and no one looks for her. There’s no inquiry, no need for forensics, and no further investigation required. In...

Protesters go to City Hall: ‘A young man was murdered on your watch’

“There’s been this kind of waiting game going on, let’s just wait this out and see if people lose interest and go away. Well...

The Agenda, March 21-27, 2008: A homeless emergency, mayoral vetoes ….

The mayor was out of town when news broke that his approval ratings continue to dive, just a few months into his final term....

59 shots: Closing arguments in the Nieto case

“We are here today because of 59 shots,” Nieto family attorney Adante Pointer said, as he began his closing argument in the Nieto trial....

Final argument in the Nieto case: What I would say

I am not a lawyer. I don’t know the rules of evidence. I don’t know what you can and can’t mention in a closing...

A trainwreck of a witness on final day of Nieto case

One of the city’s star witnesses in the Alex Nieto case took the stand today, and the result was one of the worst legal...

Would modern police training have saved Mario Woods’ life?

Police Chief Greg Suhr and Captain Gregory Yee, who oversees department training, discussed changes in use-of-force training tonight that strongly suggested that the shootings...

The Agenda: The cops, the city attorney, Hillary and Bernie ….

When you’re the San Francisco city attorney, you have to defend your client, and sometimes your client is the Police Department, which is getting...