Tag: SFPD

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, ...

If you are lucky enough to actually live in your city while working as a police officer, there are “good-news, bad news” angles that a lot of people aren’t aware ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco police officers appeared baffled when stopping a vehicle that had no driver or occupants, according to a report.  So what should officers do in this ...

Everyone got to arrest Michael at least once. I explain: Mission Station was a Field Training Officer base primarily because of our diversity and the eternal intensity of criminal activity. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After four days of deliberation, a California jury on Monday found Officer Terrance Stangel of the San Francisco Police Department not guilty of assault and battery, according ...

“The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers!”                   - William Shakespeare's,  Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 My ...

There’s an old Law Enforcement maxim about having to physically fight a suspect: “When you get down in the mud to fight a pig, you get dirty, and the hog ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a stunning declaration, Police Chief William Scott of the San Francisco Police Department said his agency will no longer work with District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office ...