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Academy-cuts plan met with force
- As San Francisco struggles to reduce its high homicide rate, some city officials want to take potential officers off the streets in an effort to save millions of dollars.
- As San Francisco struggles to reduce its high homicide rate, some city officials want to take potential officers off the streets in an effort to save millions of dollars.
Cost-saving effort trims police force
- Nearly 90 officers filing papers and answering phones in The City’s police stations could be replaced by civilians in a cost-saving measure originally approved by voters in 2004.
- Nearly 90 officers filing papers and answering phones in The City’s police stations could be replaced by civilians in a cost-saving measure originally approved by voters in 2004.
Busted Central Station in dire need of replacement
- When rain falls on North Beach, the officers who use the men’s locker room in the SFPD’s Central Station know what to expect: the putrid stench of sewage. For years, cops have ignored the bubbling intrusion of bacteria along with dozens of other deficiencies.
- When rain falls on North Beach, the officers who use the men’s locker room in the SFPD’s Central Station know what to expect: the putrid stench of sewage. For years, cops have ignored the bubbling intrusion of bacteria along with dozens of other deficiencies.
System of giving police crime data to public attacked
- Growing concerns about neighborhood crime trends have led to frustrations with the Police Department’s “CrimeMaps” system, a six-year-old technology that pinpoints where crimes have occurred in The City.
SFPD’s latest officers may be new, but bring experience
- Ignatius Chinn worked the hardscrabble streets of Oakland for more than 20 years. He took on notorious organized-crime syndicates. He was promoted to detective, then supervisor. He served as an expert witness in gun-control cases.
- Ignatius Chinn worked the hardscrabble streets of Oakland for more than 20 years. He took on notorious organized-crime syndicates. He was promoted to detective, then supervisor. He served as an expert witness in gun-control cases.
Beats make city feel safer
- While a majority of San Franciscans feel safer since a police foot-patrol program was implemented last year, the Police Department doesn’t possess the management skills to run the program, according to a report released Tuesday.
- While a majority of San Franciscans feel safer since a police foot-patrol program was implemented last year, the Police Department doesn’t possess the management skills to run the program, according to a report released Tuesday.
Officers sue for time spent changing
- More than 1,000 San Francisco police officers have been asked to join a lawsuit that could cost The City millions of dollars in back pay for the time spent gearing up and dressing down for a shift.
- More than 1,000 San Francisco police officers have been asked to join a lawsuit that could cost The City millions of dollars in back pay for the time spent gearing up and dressing down for a shift.
Officials launch anonymous crime tip line
- Bay Area police may now have one more tool to fight crime — anonymous informants.
Police Department wants more money as city faces budget deficit
- Although The City faces a projected $233 million budget deficit for next fiscal year, the San Francisco Police Department has drafted a budget proposal that asks for a 15 percent increase in funding over last year’s budget to address The City’s growing demand to fight crime. Despite recent police data that shows that violent crime has decreased over 2007 levels, the homicide rate was its highest in more than a decade.