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February, 1955: Reporter Charles Raudebaugh writes a 12-part series titled "the Untold Story of the San Francisco Police Dept." for the San Francisco Chronicle. The editors preface states; "The people of San Francisco are entitled to a full, if unpleasant report on what sort of police they are getting for their money.
WLW has a 24-hour local news department and is affiliated with ABC News Radio. The station airs a nearly entirely locally produced talk format. Bill Cunningham hosts a weekday program, [2] and WLW is the flagship station for his Live on Sunday Night, which is syndicated by Premiere Networks.
Its flagship station, WLW (AM), was first licensed in March 1922. [5] Most of its broadcast properties adopted call signs with "WLW" as the first three letters. In the 1930s, WLW had an effective power of 500,000 watts, and was the only commercial U.S. AM broadcasting station ever to be permitted to transmit regularly with more than 50,000 ...
A replacement facility for the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Headquarters and Southern District Police Station, the PSB also contains a fire station to serve the burgeoning neighborhood. In 2014, the San Francisco Police Academy graduated its first publicly reported transgender police officer, Mikayla Connell. [14]
William J. Quinn (April 23, 1883 – October 10, 1963) was a San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) chief. [1] [2] A native of San Francisco, California, he attended Lincoln Grammar School, Sacred Heart College and studied law at Saint Ignatius College (now the University of San Francisco), graduating in 1925. He walked his first police beat in ...
Don Lee brought its four owned-and-operated stations—KHJ in Los Angeles, KFRC in San Francisco, KGB in San Diego, and KDB in Santa Barbara—along with six California affiliates and, via shortwave hookup, two more in Hawaii. [19] [27] Mutual now had a nationwide presence.
Dullea was appointed Chief in 1940 by Mayor Angelo Rossi.In 1941, Dullea ordered the San Francisco Police Department to assist in the roundup of Japanese-Americans for transport to internment camps, confiscating minor personal possessions; in February 1942 Dullea said his department was holding 6,000 radios and cameras taken from Japanese-Americans. [1]
Francis J. Ahern (1899–1958) was the San Francisco Police Chief from January 1956 to September 1958. Appointed by mayor George Christopher's police commission, Ahern, with the rank of patrolman, was elevated to chief over every captain, lieutenant and sergeant on the force. Ahern's rank was deceptive, as he had been passed over for promotion ...