Eleni Balakrishnan
Police and Courts Reporter at Mission Local
police & courts reporter @MLNow • desi-habesha siempre pensando en méxico • @RiceUniversity, @LJJProject alum • tips: [email protected]
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5 days ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
People who are addicted to fentanyl, says Dorothy Dean, “don’t listen to nobody.” For that reason, Dean is proud of every person she has talked into seeking medical help. But in late March, Vanguard Lab, an art and activist space on Sixth Street, where Dean did harm reduction work, found out that it was caught up in federal cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency. Its $250,000 federal grant was cut off abruptly. Vanguard Lab closed its doors a few weeks later.
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1 week ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
Chief Bill Scott took over the San Francisco Police Department more than eight years ago amid chaos and upheaval: a series of fatal police shootings, a hunger strike to oust the former chief, and federal government intervention to reform the department’s issues. Today, as upheaval continues in San Francisco — a shift back toward more law-and-order policing, a new mayor at the helm — Scott announced on Wednesday he will be leaving in June.
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1 week ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
A police chase on San Jose Avenue this afternoon sent two suspects bailing out of a vehicle and fleeing into the backyards of the Fairmount area of Glen Park, according to residents and police. Witnesses saw dozens of police, including officers from Daly City and a helicopter from the California Highway patrol swarming the area with rifles drawn after 5 p.m., going door to door seeking two suspects.
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1 week ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
A man was shot and killed at a Mission District home on Friday afternoon, police have confirmed. The shooting occurred at a residence on 26th Street between Alabama and Florida streets around 12:48 p.m., according to a police statement, and police are investigating the incident as a homicide. “Officers arrived on scene and located an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound,” the statement said. Paramedics declared the man dead on the scene.
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2 weeks ago |
missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan
Nine months into a two-year pilot curfew on certain stores in the Tenderloin, San Francisco police officials said today it has been effective in its goal to reduce street loitering and crime in areas of the neighborhood.
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