Blue Byline » San Francisco Police Department http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:35:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 30 years of cop stories http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/05/22/30-years-of-cop-stories/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/05/22/30-years-of-cop-stories/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 16:43:53 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=1797 Unlike many of my colleagues, I didn’t always want to be a police officer. Despite being raised in an Irish family in San Francisco, a town where a large portion of police officers also sported an “O-apostrophe” in their surnames, I fought the stereotype.

Back in those days the City, as the natives refer to it, was filled with sensational crime. Patty Hearst robbed the bank down the street, some lunatic was beheading joggers in Golden Gate Park and the Black Panthers were having regular gun battles with the police.

These disturbing events were, however, outside the bubble of a …

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