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Legal System Fails Again: No Charges for Trucker Who Killed Amelie

By Aaron Bialick | May 14, 2014 | 27 Comments

Note: Amelie Le Moullac’s mother, Jessie Jewitt, and other Bay Area musicians will perform at a benefit concert on Friday in Palo Alto at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds will go to Amélie’s Angels, “a fund dedicated to bringing the gifts of education, food, clothing, toys, and most importantly love and laughter, to the children of Haiti.” The truck […]

Fundraiser for Nikita May, 3-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized by Driver on Fulton

By Aaron Bialick | May 12, 2014 | 3 Comments

Three-year-old Nikita May remains in recovery at SF General Hospital, after being hit on his bike by a pickup truck driver at Fulton Street and 43rd Avenue on April 10. Friends, family, and community members have set up a fundraiser to help the family see him return to health. May was making his way through a crosswalk […]

SFPD Tickets to Peds, Cyclists, Grow 7X Faster Than “Focus on the Five”

By Aaron Bialick | May 9, 2014 | 27 Comments

The SFPD may be working towards its “Focus on the Five” goals — focusing traffic enforcement on the five most dangerous violations, all by drivers — but meanwhile, it’s really ratcheting up its ticket enforcement against those walking and bicycling. This counterproductive use of limited enforcement resources was highlighted at a Police Commission hearing this […]

SFPD Finds SUV in Crash That Killed Oi Yeung, 82; Driver Still at Large

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 25, 2014 | 3 Comments

SFPD has found the SUV in the crash that killed 82-year-old Oi Yeung in a crosswalk at Bayshore Boulevard and Visitacion Avenue Thursday morning, after which the driver fled the scene. The SF Chronicle reported that police located the white Dodge Durango seen by witnesses and in video footage near the intersection where the crash occurred, […]

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SFPD Traffic Citations Increasing Towards “Focus on the Five” Goals

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 14, 2014 | 11 Comments

The SF Police Department is issuing more traffic tickets, and a greater share of them are going toward the five most dangerous violations, according to early SFPD data on traffic citations issued so far this year. With a new, more efficient database, the SFPD began posting monthly citation data on its website starting in January […]

SFPD Park Station’s Most Dangerous Intersections: Not on the Wiggle

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 11, 2014 | 11 Comments

New SFPD data indicates that the Park District’s most dangerous intersections have nothing to do with the Wiggle, where Captain Greg Corrales has devoted his station’s limited traffic enforcement staff to ticketing bike commuters who roll stop signs. Under SFPD’s “Focus on the Five” campaign, captains have pledged to target the five most dangerous intersections […]

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