San Francisco Police Department

After a moral panic about crime, San Francisco’s billionaires and political leaders demanded more arrests. Pretrial detainees are now seeing the harmful effects.

Multiple major cities including San Francisco and Oakland this year have considered obtaining armed police robots that can kill people.

For the wealthy backers of the Boudin recall, “progressive” prosecutors are the perfect scapegoat for what they see as threats to a system that treats them just fine.

After more than a year in office—and despite pushback—the San Francisco DA’s policies have kept people out of jails and prisons.

Under current law, established during the “tough on crime” era, San Francisco mandated at least 1,971 full-time police officers. Voters will now have the opportunity to reconsider that mandate.

As a Black child in San Francisco, I learned early that mine and others’ bodies meant nothing to those supposedly tasked with our protection.

Activists hope Chesa Boudin will press charges, and push for systemic changes to address the criminalization of mental illness.

Chesa Boudin is just 240 votes behind Suzy Loftus, even after local law enforcement spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat him.

Interim San Francisco D.A. Suzy Loftus claims to be a “progressive,” but her long record as a prosecutor reveals an all-too-familiar path chosen by establishment-types who have little interest in disrupting the status quo.

Ahead of the city’s district attorney election on Tuesday, the alleged baton beating last month of Dacari Spiers has renewed debate over police accountability.

Loftus led the San Francisco Police Commission through a bloody and turbulent era.

Heather Marlowe, now an activist, says neglected kits are a reflection of who and what police prioritize.