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Manohar Raju
Elected 2019
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No dealers convicted: Watch the video of SFPD’s high-profile, low-impact drug raid
Nov 12, 2025
Footage shows police pressuring people on side streets to enter Jefferson Square Park, where they are rounded up and zip-tied.
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How one judge’s decision led to a child’s abduction — and exposed a broken system
Nov 9, 2025
Family court cases hinge on one person’s discretion. But without transparency or oversight, those choices can have devastating consequences.
Lurie asked feds to assist on drug cases, other crimes. Here’s how they already team up
Oct 29, 2025
Long working relationships and a bevy of data-sharing blur the lines on enforcing sanctuary laws.
Sheriff’s ex-chief of staff dodges trial after hit-and-run cover-up
Oct 21, 2025
Richard Jue allegedly fled the scene of a hit-and-run and concocted a bogus excuse about the damage.
Pelosi aide Gary McCoy is running for supervisor. But first, he’s airing out his crimes
Oct 1, 2025
The District 8 candidate said his past life of addiction and petty crime prepared him to handle the city’s most pressing crises.
SFPD’s longest-standing detective watches his special victims unit decline
Sep 30, 2025
Tony Flores has been a cop since the days of “wife-beaters” and “battered women.” Now the SVU is suffering twice the rate of attrition as the SFPD.
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