San Francisco Police

• Police proposal to use potentially deadly robots approved in San Francisco

  Supervisors in San Francisco voted to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations.

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  Nov 30, 2022
  
• How San Francisco’s Chinatown fought back against anti-Asian hate

  San Francisco’s Chinatown appears safe on the surface but like Vancouver, the northern California city saw an explosion of anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Features

  Sep 8, 2022
  
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• Murals and minimal graffiti: VPD and business leaders tour San Francisco Chinatown

  During an Aug. 30 tour, the Vancouver delegates saw a community of seniors and families where merchants have a close relationship with the San Francisco Police Department.

  Features

  Sep 7, 2022
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• ‘They’re going to die’: San Francisco, Vancouver drug crises have advocate calling for intervention

  Many of San Francisco’s close to 8,000 homeless people end up in the Tenderloin – the epicenter of a drug crisis that claimed 700 lives in 2020 and 650 more in 2021.

  Health

  Sep 6, 2022
• San Francisco police used rape kit DNA to link woman to crime, says district attorney

  San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin called the alleged practice of using sexual assault victims' rape kit DNA to prove criminal activity 'legally and ethically wrong.'

  World

  Feb 15, 2022
• San Francisco police will stop releasing mug shots, citing racial bias

  San Francisco police will stop releasing the mug shots of people who have been arrested unless they pose a threat to the public, as part of an effort to stop perpetuating racial stereotypes, the city's police chief announced Wednesday.

  World

  Jul 1, 2020
• FBI agent’s gun, badge stolen from car in San Francisco

  San Francisco police say an FBI agent's gun and badge were stolen after his car was broken into in the city's popular Alamo Square.

  Crime

  May 30, 2016
• GPS leads U.S. police to Canadian backpacker Audrey Carey’s alleged killers

  The GPS device in a stolen car helped police on the U.S. West Coast locate the alleged killers of a Canadian traveller found dead as a result of a shooting.

  Crime

  Oct 9, 2015