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The SFPD is making no friends among the top brass of other Bay Area police departments, with their LED mobile billboard going right into other departments' parking lots offering their cops higher pay to jump ship. The San Francisco Police Department has been complaining for years that they are short-staffed. But staffing shortages are hobbling police departments all over the Bay Area, and really, across the entire country. The SFPD decided to get cute this week in a move to recruit more officers, and in doing so, has other Bay Area police departments pretty outraged.

For nearly 200 days, a large white police bus sat on one of the busiest transit plazas in San Francisco. And during that time, it cost the Mission District police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, according to Captain Sean Perdomo. The bus - a San Francisco Police Department "mobile command unit" - was meant to deter criminal activity like drug use and illegal vending at 16th and Mission streets.

The San Francisco Police Department is offering a $50,000 reward for information about the shooting death of wheelchair-bound Keith Albert, 32, who was killed at 20th and Shotwell streets in August 2024. The department today posted a bulletin with images of a young man with black hair, wearing glasses and red-and-white gloves as an "unknown suspect." The reward, the bulletin said, is for information "leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the suspect(s) responsible."

You shouldn't die in training right?

The SFPD is mourning the loss of 30-year-old cadet Jon-Marques Psalms, who suffered a medical emergency during a training exercise last week, and died on Friday. He was honored with a Monday procession. In a heartbreaking blow to the SF Police Department, as a 30-year-old new recruit who was joining the department suffered a medical emergency last Wednesday, was hospitalized, and died on Friday, according to KTVU.

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco police recruit officer died Friday, just days after he suffered a medical emergency while training at the academy, according to police. The death is believed to be the first of its kind for the San Francisco Police Department. The recruit - identified as Jon-Marques Psalms, 30, of San Francisco - suffered the emergency after finishing a training exercise Wednesday, police said in a news release. Psalms was taken to an area hospital, where he later died.

The San Francisco Police Department arrested a man for possessing and distributing nitrous oxide outside Dead & Company's shows, with SFPD finding a trailer with 100 metal tanks.

Many of the AI-esque and often sexually suggestive memes depict real department members - mostly women of color, targeting specific officers with unverified accusations.

The SFPD is rolling out a DUI checkpoint on Saturday night between 7pm July 5th, 2025, and 3 am July 6, somewhere in SF city limits.

"This is about creating something truly meaningful. It's about building a department that reflects the values of LA, community safety and progress," Scott said at his introductory press conference in LA.

The SFPD decided to suspend overtime rules independently, leading to significant overspending and violating guidelines initially set to control extra work hours for officers.