Jonah Owen Lamb

1 week ago | sfstandard.com | Jonah Owen Lamb

Police would shorten the academy and give additional training to officers in the field. Every mayoral candidate in San Francisco’s recent election — including Daniel Lurie — promised they would beef up the city’s flagging police ranks by hiring more cops. Now, one potential solution being floated by some in the San Francisco Police Department is less training.

2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Jonah Owen Lamb |Max Harrison-Caldwell

With the Department of Veterans Affairs expected to lay off tens of thousands of employees amid the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to downsize the federal government, an information-seeking visit Monday by a three-person team from the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters sparked panic and protests at San Francisco’s VA hospital.

1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez |David Sjostedt |Jonah Owen Lamb |Kevin Truong

By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, David Sjostedt, Jonah Owen Lamb, Kevin Truong, and Han LiPublished Apr. 14, 2025 • 6:00amIn politics, 100 days can seem like an eternity — has it really been only three months since Trump took office again? — or a blink. Assessing a mayor’s — or president’s — tenure at the 100-day mark is a convention, but an imperfect one, an exercise in judging beginnings without knowledge of the endings.

1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Noah Baustin |Jonah Owen Lamb

Loitering bookings rose 150% in the first three months of 2025. The DA contends it’s a new strategy. Experts say it doesn’t work. Drug possession. Public intoxication. Resisting arrest. At first glance, there was nothing unusual about the claims San Francisco police levied against 44-year-old Chaz Burnett during two February arrests near 6th Street that landed him behind bars. But among those run-of-the-mill offenses was a far rarer allegation: criminal loitering.

2 months ago | sfstandard.com | Jonah Owen Lamb

Two months after inauguration day, San Francisco’s county jail population has surged by more than 10%. Depending on the day, the jails are officially over capacity, with upward of 1,300 incarcerated people and 1,236 beds. The locally incarcerated population had remained relatively stable for the previous six months, hovering just below the total number of available jail beds. Then, day by day, more beds became occupied.