Thursday, May 2, 2024

Tagged with: Police Commission

Dramatic video shows BART cops beating innocent man

Dramatic new video footage from BART Police body cameras shows in detail how a young African American man was restrained and beaten by officers...

Supes approve memorial for Alex Nieto

The Police Officers Association lost a significant vote today, further isolating the organization from the mainstream of San Francisco politics. Despite an effort by Sup....

The next police commissioner

The Board of Supes Rules Committee, on a 2-1 vote, sent the full board a recommendation that law professor and immigration-rights lawyer Bill Ong...

The Agenda, Dec. 12-18: Will the supes fold on free City College?

First, let us take a moment to say: We are losing three great supervisors. John Avalos, David Campos, and Eric Mar have been the...

The Agenda: Why Breed and Lee are blocking Sanctuary City legislation

You can see the shape of the new Board of Supervisors, and the impact of the November election, with the decision by President London...

Defending San Francisco values

  You have to go back to 1972, and the landslide victory of Richard Nixon, to find a moment where so many people were so...

The Agenda, Oct. 23-30: Does the Eastern Neighborhoods plan even work any more?

There’s more and more evidence that the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan, which since 2008 has guided development in a large swath of San Francisco, is...

The Agenda, Oct. 16-23: Airbnb threats …

Did anyone catch the not-at-all-veiled threat in the Chronicle story on new efforts to limit Airbnb rentals? The measure, sponsored by Sups. London Breed and...

Mayor to decide on new police chief as feds blast force

The San Francisco Police Commission is preparing to recommend a new chief just as a report from the federal Justice Department slams the department...

The Agenda, Oct. 10-17: Should we celebrate the Twitter tax break?

I am glad, I suppose, that there’s nice art coming to mid-Market to “spur curiosity and connection.” Five years after the Twitter tax break,...