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New SFPD Traffic Chief Ann Mannix Hesitant to “Focus on the Five”

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 27, 2015 | 22 Comments

SFPD Traffic Company Commander Mikail Ali has been replaced by Northern Station Captain Ann Mannix, the SF Chronicle reported today. Ali, who held the position for two-and-a half years, has repeatedly promised that the SFPD is committed to its “Focus on the Five” enforcement campaign. But under his tenure, only one station has come close […]

Trucker Who Killed Amelie Le Moullac Deemed “Negligent” in Civil Suit

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 15, 2015 | 3 Comments

A civil jury has determined that a truck driver was negligent when he killed Amelie Le Moullac as she rode her bike at Folsom and Sixth Streets in August 2013, KQED’s Bryan Goebel (Streetsblog SF’s first editor) reported today: A San Francisco Superior Court jury has found the driver of a big rig truck negligent for striking […]

SFPD Traffic Commander’s Strategy for Safer Streets: Finger-Wagging

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 13, 2015 | 8 Comments

For SFPD Traffic Company Commander Mikail Ali, the reason so many people are getting killed by drivers on SF’s streets apparently has nothing to do with the fact that every station but one is failing miserably to adhere to the department’s “Focus on the Five” enforcement strategy. Nor is it because SF’s streets are overwhelmingly designed to […]

Second Sleeping Man Killed by a Driver at the Same Driveway

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 22, 2014 | 41 Comments

For the second time in two years, a homeless man was run over and killed by a driver exiting the same garage exit on Third near Bryant Street in SoMa. The SF Chronicle reports: Randy Jacobs, 53, fell asleep Friday night in the driveway of a private apartment garage at Third and South Park streets, […]

Only One SFPD Station is “Focused on the Five” for Safer Streets: Richmond

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 18, 2014 | 20 Comments

Nearly two years after SFPD announced its “Focus on the Five” program, only one of the 10 police stations is actually meeting its goal of issuing at least 50 percent of traffic citations for the five most common violations that cause pedestrian injuries. Department-wide, that rate was an abysmal 24 percent in September, the latest month […]

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How SFPD Caught One of the Violent Panhandle Bike Thieves

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 17, 2014 | 23 Comments

The SFPD says it has arrested one of the bike thieves who assaulted six people biking on the Panhandle in October and stole their bikes. Lieutenant Jason Sawyer of SFPD Park Station’s Investigations Unit said police “have no doubt” that the juvenile male was one of the assailants who threw bottles at bike commuters and jammed […]

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