More about why a blog on San Francisco's police later, but I've been thinking about this project for a while and one of today's articles in the SF Chronicle seemed to be a good place to start.
What is it?
A story about a woman who bumped into the person who stole her identity. She called 911 and set off on a foot chase around San Francisco. She stayed on the phone the entire time and chased the identity thief for 45 minutes before a police officer strolled over. The quote that caught my eye, "When Officer Rickey Terrell arrived a moment later -- about 45 minutes after the chase began -- he, too, searched the Walgreens garage." Folks, this is downtown San Francisco in the middle of the day. A woman chasing down another person on the streets, calling 911 and pleading for help shouldn't be vigilante for 45 minutes. Our police can do better.
That is today's "bad cop, no donut" story. More stories, links and photos to follow.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/15/MNG77QG0G11.DTL
