Inside San Francisco’s Police Drone Program
Over the past year, SFPD’s drone fleet has increased from six to 63 drones with more than 1,400 completed flights, and over 537 hours of flight time.
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San Francisco plans to spend $10 million on trash cans. Will they make the streets clean?
In 2022, San Francisco announced plans to replace the city’s nearly 2,900 trash cans with custom-designed stainless steel bins. Nearly three years later, old cans still remain, and it may take another two years before the new ones appear on the streets.
“I just miss having them next door”: Paradise’s mobile home community hasn’t been rebuilt 3 years after Camp Fire
The Camp Fire destroyed 90% of the occupied mobile home park homes within the fire perimeter. Most of those homes were in the 30-plus mobile home parks in Paradise.
Fatal collisions involving juvenile cyclists highlight road safety issues in the Bay Area
In 2022 alone, at least three children have been killed in traffic collisions while biking around the Bay Area, raising concerns around road safety and infrastructure.
The struggle for clean air and water in Benicia
Environmental watchdog group Baykeeper filed a lawsuit in federal court against Amports, which owns the Port of Benicia, and Valero for allegedly mishandling petroleum coke, a refinery product that can damage the heart and lungs.
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‘A recipe for disaster’: The pandemic’s toll on working parents
Since the beginning of the pandemic, California’s job market has lost the largest percentage of parents of school children in the country, trailing only Nevada and Michigan, an analysis of U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey data shows.
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Bakersfield Police Broke 31 People’s Bones in Four Years. No Officer Has Been Disciplined for It.
Using batons, police caused fractures in some Bakersfield residents accused of serious crimes, and others who were never charged, or had charges dismissed.
Bay Area coronavirus cases decline
This visualization takes a look at coronavirus cases in three Bay Area counties.
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Year after year, best picture nominees go to dramas
Between 1930 and last year’s awards, 88 percent of best picture nominees were dramas, compared to 53 percent of feature-length films as a whole.
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When fewer people watch the Super Bowl on TV, will the ads survive?
In the last two years, advertisers spent less on Super Bowl advertisements than they had in previous years. To understand this trend, we turned to data on game viewership and time spent watching only Super Bowl advertisements on YouTube.
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Money on the field during 2020 Super Bowl
During the 2020 Super Bowl, the net income of players and performers on the field will change throughout the game.
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If California’s Homeless Attended the Super Bowl
A comparison of local government spending on homeless services versus American consumer spending on Super Bowl Sunday.
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