Can it happen here?

About a dozen neighbors stood vigil last night on Folsom Street at the site where Amilcar Perez Lopez was killed by San Francisco police. An...

When you are up against the threat of fascism, you have to be willing to inhabit, always uncomfortably, a big tent.  So these days, I find m...

Radley Balko is an extremely unsentimental observer of US policing. His 2013 The Rise of the Warrior Cop is an essential history of the evo...

Sociologist Patrick Starkey wanted to explain, first why crimes against property and people soared in the 1970s and 1980s -- and then rapidl...

A leisurely perusal of the collection of the San Francisco's Tenderloin Museum (398 Eddy Street at Leavenworth) proved there is nothing...

Our cop-endorsed D.A. Brooke Jenkins tried to shove the killing of the young unhoused trans man down the forgetery, but the ploy is not wor...

The Los Angeles Times has produced a devastating report about how police are trained to interrogate family members of people they have kill...

Kyle Rittenhouse. Oh yeah, the troubled teenager who grabbed up an AR-15 and drove to Kenosha, Wisconsin to play vigilante during protests i...

Some twerp named Michael Knowles who writes for a rightist propaganda outfit called the The Daily Wire suggested recently that  it was time ...

Things to think about ... • Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur started 2023 off right. Congress has not covered itself with glory since ...

Sherrilyn Ifill led the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, serving from 2013-2022. Because we have not found a way to provide safety ...

In the midst of the Trump presidency, Adam Server summed that regime up: "The cruelty is the point."   San Francisco may have hate...

The ejection by recall of San Francisco D.A. Chesa Boudin only spotlights our broader season of discontent. I decided several months ago tha...

Being a San Francisco progressive is always about living to fight another day. (At least, usually -- didn't work out that way for George...

William Jenkins from Mission Local summarized the account given by the San Francisco Police Department in a public meeting about how office...

Our progressive District Attorney has many supporters who understand he's doing the work to make all of us safer. Meet a few here.

A lengthy article in the sports section of the San Francisco Chronicle has haunted me for the last couple of weeks. Three young male Univer...

It's been seven years since San Francisco police officers shot Amilcar Perez Lopez six times in the back. The young Guatemalan laborer m...

Washington Post politics and data writer Philip Bump has done a terrific job of showing how politicians exaggerate crime statistics when go...

It seems likely the city will be paying out some such sum to Sergio Lugo for an encounter with three out-of-uniform San Francisco cops, if h...