Political Reporter

Mike Ege

SFPD is the only department to reject all recommended reductions, citing urgency of staffing shortfalls and reforms.


A Bay Area mother is protesting the open-air drug market in the Tenderloin.

Legal vendors in the Mission say that permit enforcement is minimal, and new legislation could drown them with an overflow of unpermitted peddlers.

Mayor London Breed wants to push funding toward hospital improvements, family shelter, street safety and plaza upkeep. 

In the Tenderloin, Breed stumped for a $27 million police overtime bill that is expected to meet resistance at the Board of Supervisors.