cops

12 Nov 2019

All About the BART McMuffin Protests

Muni may have those cornball dad-joke signs about proper backpack etiquette and standing away from the doors to facilitate ingress and egress, but it’s BART’s rules and regs that have made the news since last Friday. The saga began last Monday, when a BART police officer with the badge name

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14 Jun 2018

New Law Could Actually Put Killer Cops in Jail

On Tuesday, June 19th,  the California Senate Public Safety committee will discuss AB931, The Police Accountability and Community Protection Act, which aims to limit when cops can legally kill citizens and hold police legally responsible when they kill people wrongfully. In 2015 SF police fired 26 rounds at Mario Woods

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18 Jul 2017

Are Tasers Non-Lethal Weapons? Hundreds of Deaths Say Otherwise.

This originally appeared in Street Sheet Grassroots movements of people organized under the banner of Black Lives Matter have put law enforcement under a whole new level of scrutiny. The public outcries and unrest of the communities of Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles have unleashed a new

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
17 Jun 2015

Crabs, Communists, and Cops: The Story of Specs’

It’s a sad thing that The Bold Italic has shuttered. They did a lot of really great things for many SF artists and writers and it’s a true shame that they are no longer around. The Bold Italic not only gave SF creatives great exposure, it also actually paid them good

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
02 Nov 2009

Sinkers and Mud – Fuzzy Comforts for Night Owls at Bob's Donuts

Oh, doughnut! Whether you be called sinker or soul cake, come in bar shape or circle, you are a grand staple of cheap eating! Doughnuts are in the upper echelon comfort foods.  It can be cold and unforgiving outside, but for a few minutes you have the sugary embrace of

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder (Editor, San Francisco) 0