Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SFPD

Are Mayor Lee, SFPD, and SFMTA Serious About Ending Hazardous Parking?

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 4, 2014 | 27 Comments

Mayor Ed Lee, along with the heads of the SFPD and SFMTA, vowed yesterday to crack down on double parking and “box blocking” as part of broader “Congestion Management Strategy to improve traffic flow and safety.” It’s a big promise, upending SF’s history of lax enforcement towards parking violations that routinely make streets more dangerous […]

SFPD to Cite Driver Who Hospitalized Woman While Backing Up

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 5, 2014 | 3 Comments

SFPD said a ticket will be issued to a driver who hit a woman last Wednesday while backing up on 16th Street near Pond Street, next to the Eureka Valley Branch Library. In initial reports, police said the driver had not been cited: The woman was hit at about 3:40 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection […]

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It’s the Little Things: A Notably Positive SFPD Encounter on My Bike

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 14, 2014 | 7 Comments

Last night, I was biking home on Irving Street in the Inner Sunset when I encountered an all-too-familiar sight: A double-parked car. I signaled and moved to the left to pass the car, in view of an SFPD cruiser behind. Normally, I’d expect the police to move along, doing nothing about this kind of situation. […]

Witness: Hit-and-Run Driver Fled With Victim in Sunroof, Tried to Toss Booze

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 7, 2014 | 17 Comments

A drunk driver who hit a man crossing the street at Valencia Street and Duboce Avenue Sunday continued to drive with the victim hanging head-first inside the sunroof, according to a witness who saw the vehicle stop outside his home on Market at Guerrero Streets. After continuing for three blocks past the scene of the […]

The (Not-So) Odd Reasons Why SFPD Parks Cars All Around Park Station

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 30, 2014 | 10 Comments

A few years ago, SFPD’s Park Station in Golden Gate Park started storing police trucks and vans on a short section of pathway adjacent to the station’s fence. I first noticed this while biking on Kezar Drive several years ago, and since then I’ve never seen the path without a police vehicle and/or barricade in the […]

SFPD Arrests Driver for Killing Pui Fong Yim, 78, at Stockton and Sacramento

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 22, 2014 | 109 Comments

SFPD arrested an SUV driver, 40-year-old Calixto Dilinila, for killing 78-year-old Pui Fong Yim Lee in a crosswalk Saturday at Stockton and Sacramento Streets, outside the Stockton tunnel. Witnesses told CBS 5 that Dilinila was making a left turn from Sacramento onto Stockton when he ran Yim Lee over, as she made her way across Stockton during what […]

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