Data Reporter

Noah Baustin

Senior Investigations Reporter

Michael Barba

San Francisco police used force on homeless people more than 1,300 times in 5 years

News

An Army veteran who stole food was among the homeless people SFPD used force against in more than 1,300 newly identified cases.

News Reporter

Ezra Wallach

Deputies released a psychotic man. Two hours later he killed someone

The killing of Michael Molland raises questions about how police are increasingly declining psychiatric detentions, despite potentially grave consequences.

Deputy News Editor

Stephanie K. Baer

A killing at Palisades: How a visa worker was slain by cops at Tahoe’s biggest resort

A Jamaican worker spent two seasons at one of California’s premier mountains, until a mental health crisis led to tragedy.

Senior Culture Editor

Astrid Kane

Dump Dean or embrace him? Sizing up the most polarizing man in city politics

Politics

Whether they see him as a bomb-throwing ideologue or courageous man of principle, everybody has an opinion about Supervisor Dean Preston.

Senior Politics Reporter

Josh Koehn

Did car-free Market Street kill San Francisco’s most important boulevard?

Big plans to turn Market Street into an iconic 21st century boulevard have imploded. Can San Francisco’s most important street be saved?

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San Francisco police used force on homeless people more than 1,300 times in 5 years

Deputies released a psychotic man. Two hours later he killed someone

A killing at Palisades: How a visa worker was slain by cops at Tahoe’s biggest resort

Dump Dean or embrace him? Sizing up the most polarizing man in city politics

Did car-free Market Street kill San Francisco’s most important boulevard?