Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SFPD

In Cleveland, Trucker Went to Prison, Lost License for Killing Woman on Bike

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 28, 2013 | 8 Comments

So far, no charges have been filed against the truck driver who earlier this month turned right across the bike lane on Folsom Street, killing 24-year-old Amelie Le Moullac. SFPD investigators are reviewing the video of the crash that SFBC staffer Marc Caswell located and handed to them — a piece of evidence that police say will […]

Will “Tone-Deaf” SFPD Own Up to Its Botched Bike Crash Investigation?

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 27, 2013 | 43 Comments

The San Francisco Police Department has finally started to respond to the failure of its investigators to acquire camera footage of the truck crash that killed Amelie Le Moullac on her bike, as well as accusations of stonewalling the attorney representing the victim’s family. But the department still hasn’t publicly acknowledged fumbling the investigation, nor […]

In Case SFPD Doesn’t Ask for Crash Footage, New Website Can Help Find It

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 26, 2013 | 8 Comments

A new online platform called CommunityCam provides a crowdsourced map of surveillance cameras on the streets that could help investigators and the public find video footage that may prove useful after a traffic crash. As we saw last week, San Franciscans can’t rely on the SFPD to do their jobs when a pedestrian or bicyclist […]

SFBC Finds What SFPD Didn’t: Video of Crash That Killed Amelie Le Moullac

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 23, 2013 | 124 Comments

Soon after an SFPD sergeant harassed bicycle advocates at a rally for safer streets at the site where Amelie Le Moullac was killed, SF Bicycle Coalition Program Manager Marc Caswell found what SFPD investigators claimed they couldn’t: two surveillance cameras facing the street, one of which had footage showing the truck driver running over Le […]

At Safe Streets Rally, SFPD Blocks Bike Lane to Make Point of Victim-Blaming

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 21, 2013 | 172 Comments

Update: Shahum reported that SFBC staffer Marc Caswell found a surveillance camera at an auto body shop which has footage of Le Moullac’s crash, even though SFPD has said no such footage could be found. More on that story later as it develops. San Francisco Police Sergeant Richard Ernst apparently decided that the best way to […]

Eyes on the Street: Bike Thief Hit With Ice Cube, Nabbed on Bike Lane

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 20, 2013 | 30 Comments

Last night at about 11:30 p.m., Jessica Kuo came across “a man handcuffed with his face planted against the bike lane” at Market and Valencia Streets in the left-turn bike junction. She reported: A friend who lived in an apartment a block away actually saw the guy steal the bike, and right as he biked away, my […]

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