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Tagged with: SF Police

Police Commission approves Tasers

Despite a strong plea from its president, who asked that the city’s new use-of-force policies be given a chance to work, the SF Police...

The Agenda: Tasers, cannabis, and homeless deaths…

The Zarate trial, and the history of the weapon that fired the fatal bullet that killed Kate Steinle, got me thinking about who gets...

OPINION: The case against Tasers

On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. at City Hall the San Francisco Police Commission will be holding its last public hearing on...

59 dead. Hundreds maimed. And we still can’t get real gun control

The best analysis I’ve seen so far of the horrific killings in Las Vegas is from Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker, who notes: If...

New evidence casts doubt on prosecution theory in Steinle killing

A motion filed today by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office sheds some new light on the events that led to the tragic killing...

Officer involved shooting shuts down market street

A San Francisco Police officer shot a man near 5th and Market Streets Wednesday around 11.30 am officials say. Parts of Market Street are cordoned...

Homelessness and colonial media

"The Homeless caused the fires, they are always leaving trash and causing a mess everywhere they go," read the headline scrolling across the...

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. 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,...

Luis Gongora autopsy confirms he was shot on the ground

Last week, the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office  released the autopsy report of Luis Demetrio Gongora Pat, a 45-year-old Yucatec Mayan man who was...