Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Justice

DA Gascón to Hire Attorney Dedicated to Vehicular Manslaughter Cases

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 28, 2014 | 3 Comments

District Attorney George Gascón has announced that he will hire an attorney devoted to handling vehicular manslaughter cases, in what could be a major step toward bringing accountability to drivers who kill. “We’ve lost children, grandparents, people in the prime of their life,” Gascón said yesterday in his State of Public Safety Address, where he announced the initiative under […]

Cesar Chavez: A Traffic Sewer Transformed Into a Safer Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 29, 2014 | 13 Comments

Western Cesar Chavez Street has been transformed after decades as a dangerous motor vehicle speedway that divided the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods. City officials cut the ribbon today on a redesign of the street, nearly nine years after residents began pushing for safety improvements. Cesar Chavez was widened in the 1930s and 40s at […]

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SFPD Commits to “Vision Zero” With Policy Reforms to Back Up the Rhetoric

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 17, 2014 | 13 Comments

[Editor’s note: Streetsblog will not be publishing Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.] The conversation is changing when it comes to the SFPD’s approach to traffic violence. That much was clear at a four-hour hearing at City Hall last night, where SFPD Chief Suhr and Traffic Company Commander Mikail Ali pledged to […]

SFPD Arrests Two Drivers After Holiday Spate of Pedestrian Deaths

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 2, 2014 | 24 Comments

In what could be a departure from the SF Police Department’s usual failure to penalize reckless driving, officers have arrested two of the five motorists who have killed people on San Francisco streets since December 20. In the last hours of 2013, the year’s pedestrian death toll increased to 20. Both of the crashes in which […]

SFPD Renames MAIT Team, Removes “Accident” From Web Site

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 15, 2013 | 5 Comments

The SFPD’s Major Accident Investigation Team has been renamed the Traffic Collision Investigation Team, and the department’s website has removed the term “accident” from its contact info page. The news follows a Streetsblog post on October 21, in which we pointed out that SFPD regularly violates its official policy of referring to car crashes as “collisions.” […]

Contrary to SFPD Policy, Police Still Refer to “Collisions” as “Accidents”

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 21, 2013 | 34 Comments

Anyone who keeps track of the daily reports that come out of the SFPD’s press office might be surprised to learn that the department has a policy of using the term “collision” — not “accident” — when referring to traffic crashes. That’s because, in practice, the SFPD’s top brass and press officers use “accident” as […]

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