Category: Crime
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Gascón Outlines Plan to Ramp Up Neighborhood Prosecutor Initiative
At his quarterly neighborhood newspaper briefing Friday, District Attorney George Gascón announced plans to ramp up the Neighborhood Prosecutor Initiative as part of his vision to make San Francisco the safest large city in the country.
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SFPD Continues Push for Tasers
Despite strong opposition to their use, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr returned to the Police Commission Wednesday arguing for the adoption and use of Tasers by the police department.
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Propaganda: North Korea Perspective on US, Western Civilization
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in Business, Crime, Culture, Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Homelessness, Housing, Human Interest, Immigration, Land Use, Law, Media, Opinion, Politics, Religion, Sports, WarOn a trip to visit family in Seoul in April, I was approached by a man and a woman who claimed to be North Korean defectors. They presented me with a DVD that recently came into their possession and asked me to translate it. They also asked me to post the completed film on the…
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Only in America
The massacre in the Aurora movie theater should surprise no one. After Virginia Tech, after Columbine, after Jordan Lee Loughner’s assault on Gabby Giffords, it should surprise no one. And that’s just the latest. Count on it, it’s going to happen again.
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Protesters Disrupt MUNI On One-Year Anniversary Death of Kenneth Harding
Demonstrators disrupted San Francisco Municipal Railway service Monday morning to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of 19-year-old Kenneth Harding Jr.
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Deadly June in San Francisco Results in 68 Arrests During Citywide Sweep
With ten gun-related homicides in June adding to a tally of 38 in 2012, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr announced today the arrests of 68 wanted suspects resulting from a multi-agency sweep of the city.
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Police Investigating Connection Between Two Mission District Sexual Assualts
Investigators looking into the June 18th incident have discovered some similarities between the previously unreported incident, and a separate attempted sexual assault case, which was reported to police on June 15th and occurred just five blocks away. On June 15, 2012 on Erie Alley near 13th Street, a woman was approached from behind by two…