San Francisco’s outdated and inaccessible criminal records request system is an obstacle to public safety. It leaves journalists and crime victims unclear about what is actually happening in our criminal justice system. Our court must provide clear records on demand for everyone — it is essential to hold officials accountable.

San Francisco lacks a fully interconnected criminal justice computer database that shares information in real time. Good data that’s easy to access can help residents understand what is really happening in our district attorney’s office, the police department, and the courts.

Victim stories in their own words: Photographer Andrew Bland was targeted by robbers for his equipment and escaped an attempted carjacking after taking photos of owls in Golden Gate Park.

Ghost guns represented 16 percent of all firearms seized in San Francisco in 2020. Who sold the remaining 84 percent of guns that were used in crimes? That's an important question to answer if we want to address rising gun violence.

Here/Say Media interviewed the victim’s grandson, Jack Liao, who claimed the district attorney’s office kept the family “in the dark” while trying to convince his non-English speaking grandfather to agree to no prosecution.

Unlike many cities around the country San Francisco does not publish homicide or assault clearance statistics on a regular basis. This information should be posted yearly on the SFPD website, readily accessible website as “Crime Trends.” It’s impossible to hold our public servants accountable without reliable, publicly available information.

Unlike many cities around the country San Francisco does not publish homicide or assault clearance statistics on a regular basis. This information should posted yearly by January 31, and readily accessible on the SFPD website as “Crime Trends.” We would like to see the information be easy to read and access and copy, with links and downloadable, copy-ready files.

When a public school teacher who lives in the Bayview expressed concern about drug deals and illegal dumping outside her home, Stop Crime SF board member Nancy Tung offered to raise the funds for a security camera — and installed it herself. The availability of lower cost home camera systems is a great way to fight neighborhood crime.

The quiet Duboce Triangle neighborhood was hit with two homicides and a series of severe assaults in recent years — even as violent crime in San Francisco has gone down. But information about solving the Duboce Triangle crimes has been hard to come by.