SF News Video: Authorities Seize 85 Bikes After Cyclists Attempt to Take Over Bay Bridge Dozens of cyclists were spotted swerving in and out of traffic, riding directly at moving cars, and narrowly missing pedestrians before heading the wrong way up the ramp to the Bay Bridge — where they were greeted by the SFPD and CHP.
SF News SFPD Negotiates With Assault Suspect Barricaded Inside Cadillac Hotel In the Tenderloin A person suspected of an earlier assault barricaded themselves inside a unit at the Cadillac Hotel in SF’s Tenderloin District Tuesday, and the SFPD eventually took them into custody with the help of crisis negotiators.
SF News SFPD May Have Violated Sanctuary Laws By Helping ICE at SFO, Bystander Files Lawsuit A witness at SFO Sunday filed a complaint that SFPD officers violated sanctuary laws by shielding ICE agents in plainclothes from bystanders who were asking them to identify themselves, as the ICE agents attempted to restrain a woman being deported with her young daughter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Parents of SFPD Recruit File Wrongful Death Suit 30-year-old Jon-Marques Psalms reportedly died from over-exertion during an SFPD training exercise and his parents are now suing; SF's newest office tower is changing hands; and Trump joked about Pearl Harbor to the Japanese prime minister.
SF News SF Police Officers Accused of Racial Profiling, Excessive Force, and More In August 2025 Case The SF Public Defender's Office filed a complaint this week with the city's Department of Police Accountability in connection with an August 2025 incident in which they say two men were wrongfully detained and abused at the hands of police in the Hunters Point neighborhood.
SF News Woman Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries In Violent Attack Near SF’s UN Plaza, Suspect Arrested On Monday morning, SFPD officers patrolling the 7th and Market area came upon the scene of a suspected aggravated assault that left the female victim lying on the ground with life-threatening injuries, and they detained the suspect who was attempting to walk away.
SF News Advocates Express Concern Over Potential Police Overreach Following Mayor’s Tenderloin Scuffle There was heavy police presence on Cedar Street, an alley on the edge of the Tenderloin, following Thursday’s violent scuffle involving SF Mayor Daniel Lurie’s security detail, with two additional arrests Friday, and neighborhood advocates worry about potential overreach.
SF News Lawsuit Says SFPD’s Flock Cameras Were Accessed by Federal Agencies 1.6 Million Times A local law firm filed a lawsuit against Flock alleging federal agencies accessed data from the SFPD’s cameras more than 1.6 million times, and a recent audit by El Cerrito's police department found that several federal agencies briefly accessed its data.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed Near 16th and Mission Streets, Arrest Made The Mission Street block where some of the Tenderloin's and Sixth Street's drug activity moved to last year was the scene of an apparent homicide Friday morning.
SF News Man Charged With Attempted Murder Over Bizarre Car Chase That Almost Killed SFPD Officer in Oakland An SFPD officer assigned to Oakland was nearly killed on the job Tuesday, in an eventful car chase that featured a murder attempt, a wrong-way chase on I-580, and Oakland Police opening fire for reasons even they can’t explain.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo’s Tiger Lola Euthanized After Infection From Injured Paw Tesla Cybertruck sales decreased by 48% in 2025; Trump’s latest Truth Social post frenzy involved TikTok and Newsom; and one of Oakland Zoo’s tigers has died from an infection that spread after a foreign object became lodged in her paw.
SF News Report: Flock Safety, Maker of SF’s License Plate Reader Cameras, Had Gobsmacking Security Flaw Turns out anyone with an internet connection, and not even a password, could access the feeds of a line of the Flock surveillance cameras that are currently all the rage with the SFPD and Oakland Police Department.
SF News San Francisco Closed Out 2025 With Lowest Number of Homicides In 70 Years While one homicide is always too many, San Francisco can claim to have one of the most rapidly declining homicide rates in the land, and 2025 closed out with a record-low homicide total not seen since the 1950s.
SF News Take That, Fox News: SF Crime Was Down 25.5% in 2025, Third Straight Year SF Crime Went Down More evidence that the national narrative about crime in San Francisco is complete baloney, as the city sees its third straight year of crime rates plummeting, this year by a full 25.4% reduction in crime across the board.
SF News Dozens Attend Outer Sunset Sideshow, Set U-Haul on Fire From Inside With Roman Candles Residents said more than 100 people attended an illegal early morning sideshow in SF’s Outer Sunset Saturday. SFPD, which was flooded with reports of gunshots, fireworks, and a U-Haul full of furniture being set ablaze, reportedly took more than 20 minutes to respond.
SF News SFO's Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Shut Down and Evacuated Due to Suspicious Item Terminal 1 at SFO was temporarily evacuated Friday morning due to a suspicious, unattended item, and passengers on airlines using the terminal were instructed to go through security at the International Terminal.
SF News Man Arrested Following Hours-Long Police Standoff After Barricading Himself Inside Palace Hotel The SFPD arrested and detained a potentially armed man who had locked himself inside the Palace Hotel in downtown SF Saturday afternoon and evening — all while the hotel experienced a power outage. Market Street near the hotel was closed along with several side streets.
SF News [Update] Social Worker Dies From Injuries Following Stabbing at SF General Hospital, Suspect Arrested The social worker who was stabbed by a patient several times in the neck and shoulder at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Thursday has died from his injuries. The suspect, who reportedly has a history of violent behavior, has since been arrested.
SF News Lurie Names Longtime SFPD Veteran Derrick Lew as New San Francisco Police Chief A San Francisco native and 22-year veteran of the SF Police Department, SFPD Deputy Chief Derrick Lew has just been named the permanent new SF Police Chief. And, interestingly, he was once shot by London Breed’s cousin.
SF News Man Found Shot on Sixth Street Dies From Gunshot Wounds San Francisco Police officers patrolling the South of Market neighborhood early Sunday morning found a man in the road suffering from gunshot wounds. He died at the scene, and the case is being investigated as a homicide.
SF News Person Dies Following Home Burglary in SF’s Ingleside, Police Are Calling It a Homicide When the SFPD responded to reports of a home burglary in SF’s Ingleside neighborhood Sunday, they found an adult victim suffering from undisclosed injuries. The person later died, and police are now investigating the case as a homicide.
SF News SFPD Raid Yielded 86 Arrests But Only One Drug-Dealing Charge, and That Person Was Just Found Not Guilty A very anticlimactic ending to that much-ballyhooed February SFPD raid of Jefferson Square Park where 86 people were arrested: Only one suspect actually faced felony drug charges, and he was just acquitted of those charges.
SF News Unprovoked Dog Bite Leads to Officer-Involved Shooting of Man, Dog in SF’s Union Square A confrontation near O’Farrell and Market streets between the SFPD and a homeless man, whose large, off-leash dog allegedly bit a bystander in an unprovoked attack, led to one of the officers shooting both the man and dog in the legs.
SF News Shots Fired During Fight Near Outer Richmond Safeway, Five Injured, Including One Critically A little before 9 pm Saturday night, gunfire erupted when a fight broke out between a group of people near the Safeway supermarket at Fulton and La Playa streets in SF’s Outer Richmond neighborhood. At least five people were injured, including one critically.
SF News SFPD Arrests 19-Year-Old Suspect in Last Week’s Golden Gate Park Sexual Assault of a Child Not a moment too soon for SF parents whose kids are heading out trick-or-treating tonight, SFPD has arrested a 19-year-old in the case of a girl who was dragged into a bathroom and sexually assaulted at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field.
