MAP: A Month’s Worth of Crime
By ANGELA KILDUFF This is what a month’s worth of Mission District crime looks like–this one spans February 19-March 17, 2009 and is based on Mission Station Capt. Stephen Tacchini’s weekly e-mail....
View ArticleMAP: Crime in the Mission, Mid to Late March
By ANGELA KILDUFF The map below helps visualize the crime data that Mission Station Capt. Stephen Tacchini sends out in a weekly email. This map includes crime from March 17 to March 26. This is now a...
View ArticleUPDATE: Shooting at 22nd and Florida Streets
By ANGELA KILDUFF Speaking at a neighborhood watch meeting on Monday night, Capt. Stephen Tacchini addressed Saturday’s shooting at 22nd and Florida streets saying the crime was “definitely...
View ArticleMAP: Crime in the Mission, Final Week of March
By ANGELA KILDUFF The map below helps visualize the crime data that Mission Station Capt. Stephen Tacchini sends out in a weekly email. This map includes crime from March 23 to March 30. You can check...
View ArticleDefendants in Graffiti Case Read the Writing on the Wall
By ANGELA KILDUFF Two men appeared in court on Wednesday for what a police press release had described as “an early morning felony graffiti spree.” Scott Cuilty, 28, and Cameron Jeffries, 24, were...
View ArticleMAP: Crime in Early April
By ANGELA KILDUFF The map below helps visualize crime data that Mission Station Capt. Stephen Tacchini sends out in a weekly email. This map includes incidents from April 5 to April 12. In a recent...
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Dolores Park Turf War
By VANESSA CARR When a police command van started showing up on weekends in Dolores Park this spring, some park goers saw it as a crackdown on fun. For others, it gave hope that their many concerns —...
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Drugs Plague 16th Street
A well-dressed red headed twenty-something slips a wad of bills into a woman’s hand at the intersection of Mission and 16th streets. From behind she looks to be his age but as she turns and signals to...
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Police and Residents Discuss Murders, Gangs
Mostly middle-aged and older residents eager for answers from police about this weekend’s three homicides packed into the community center Tuesday night on 24th Street and Treat Avenue. While many...
View ArticleI Thought I Was Going to Die
Pilar Baglieri’s voice wavered with tears as she described to a room of 40 residents at the Mission Police Station Tuesday night how an undercover officer put a gun to her 19-year-old son Ernesto’s...
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What It Took to Catch a Thief in the Mission District
By ANGELA KILDUFF Juan Romero just wanted to have a beer with his friends. Instead, he ended up chasing armed robbers. Around 8:30 p.m. on a recent Monday, Romero, a construction worker, met his...
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El Capitán
By SHALWAH EVANS On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Captain Stephen Tacchini sat on a couch at KLOK radio station with a local business owner, making small talk and waiting to be interviewed on El Show...
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Do You Know Where Your Laptop Is?
By ANGELA KILDUFF It only took a minute. Garrett McAuliffe, an intern at two Bay Area publications, was among the hundreds of people sitting in a Mission District cafe on a Friday, working away on his...
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Cleaning up 16th Street
At the intersection of 16th and Mission streets on a busy midday afternoon, three people shared a small bottle of clear liquor, draining every last drop. The trio decided against concealing their...
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Rash of Shootings Along 19th Street
By ANGELA KILDUFF Photographer Geoffrey Ellis returned home Saturday night to find yellow tape cordoning off the intersection of 19th and Capp streets. With siren lights flashing, police and emergency...
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