Tag: SFPD

When politicians get stars in their eyes, especially if it involves 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington DC, then local city budget restrictions get ignored. In San Francisco, California, then Mayor ...

California Penal Code Section 647(b)(1) - “An individual who solicits, or who agrees to engage in, or who engages in, any act of prostitution with the intent to receive compensation, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just when officials in San Francisco demonstrated some rational thought, those same people have reversed course and caved to public pressure regarding a policy that would have ...

Authors note: This disclaimer is for the Police Internal Affairs Unit, the empaneled County Grand Jury, and the busy bodies at the ACLU: This is one of those “stories” that ...

The Police Department Record Room is a vital, extremely important, legally required, and a boring-as-hell assignment. When I finally made lieutenant and was looking for places to show off my ...

UPDATE: The suspect accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer has been identified as 42-year-old David Depape by the San Francisco Police Department. Chief William “Bill” Scott of the San ...

Why do cops always eat at doughnut shops? Slightly after the invention of the wheel, and way before the sorry advent of "Gluten-Free" everything, if you were working the "dog watch" ...

If ever there was a specific phrase that I truly hated during my career at the SFPD, (and elsewhere) it was this question being asked by a self-important nimrod at ...

If you’ve ever seen the movie, “West Side Story,” the glamorized and sanitized tale about gangs in a New York City barrio, you’d be unpleasantly surprised at what really goes ...

As the Jefferson Starship would later proclaim: “We Built this City on Rock and Roll.” In our Thin Blue Line world, it was more accurate to say it was “Sex, ...