NEW investigation by Tara Duggan:

A grizzly bear chase caught on video. A penguin killed by a guillotine door. Mass staff unrest.

Behind the scenes — 17 years after a tiger killed a guest — the San Francisco Zoo is in turmoil over safety.

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NEW: More people are dying in police chases than any period in the last 40+ years, according to new data released by the federal government.

W/ Jennifer Gollan

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Spend time with this by Peter Hartlaub, Nami Sumida, Lea Suzuki and many more talented San Francisco Chronicle journalists.

They spent a year understanding how the internment of Japanese people during WW2 impacted Japantown and how it’s still reverberating today.

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Honored! Thank you to the Sidney Hillman Foundation Foundation. And the families who shared their devastating accounts w/ us. Proud to work alongside Susie Neilson Guy Wathen and the talented San Francisco Chronicle team behind this project. Investigation is here: sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

#dataviz Deadly police chases in the USA. Most people killed are young, and most deaths occur around major cities. Many victims are bystanders!
Data: San Francisco Chronicle Susie Neilson Jennifer Gollan & nhtsagov
Code🔗tinyurl.com/fpc-dip
Tools #ggplot2 #patchwork #usmap

San Francisco voters just loosened rules for police chases, bucking national trend among major U.S. cities sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… via San Francisco Chronicle

Today's front page: 'Tragic toll of police chases'

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Great reporting by Alex Putterman Joshua Eaton who drew on our dataset -- the fullest accounting yet of fatal police pursuits -- to examine chases in CT. Our national database is available here: ctinsider.com/projects/2024/…

The fed gov't doesn't count every police pursuit fatality, skewing the picture of one of the most dangerous law enforcement activities in America. So we built a database. San Francisco Chronicle's searchable data provides the fullest accounting yet of pursuit deaths.
Vast majority of

Yesterday, we published a yearlong investigation into fatal police chases around the country.

We also made our data public. If you're a local reporter hoping to dig into fatal chases in your community, please - use our data!

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'These are completely avoidable deaths,” said Christy Lopez, a Georgetown law professor.

“Police are killing too many people in pursuits for reasons that are entirely unnecessary.”

Our national investigation. ⬇️ sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…
With Susie Neilson. Video editing:

So much work went into this stunning, must-read investigation. Kudos to Susie Neilson, Jennifer Gollan, Demian Bulwa and everybody else who brought this to light. 🙌🏻

Check out the incredible work of Janie Haseman, who made sure the San Francisco Chronicle's new police pursuit database is striking and easy-to-use

NEW INVESTIGATION:

Police chases are killing 700 people a year.

The government is undercounting — so we built a database. Turns out most victims aren't even the fleeing drivers.

And there's almost no accountability.

By Jennifer Gollan & Susie Neilson sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

New: Operating under often lax rules that vary by department, and with immunity from serious punishment, officers routinely launch chases that begin with a low-level crime — or no crime at all — and end with a wreck. San Francisco Chronicle Susie Neilson

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Powerful investigation by ⁦Ben Dooley⁩ via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/…