Click here to review news reports and information about Patrol Special Police Officer Robert Burns and the shooting at Suede Nightclub at Fisherman’s Wharf. The San Francisco Patrol Special Police have issued an official media advisory regarding this incident.

SF Examiner 3 13 10 - Health plans (and high pension costs) bleeding The City amid deficit woes.
SF Examiner 3-1-10 - Supervisors back enhanced penalties for those who attack Patrol Specials
SF Examiner 2-24-10 - Letter to the Editor on the cause of the public safety and SFPD fiscal crises.
AP Wire 2-11-10 - Seattle unarmed private security officers refuse request by 15-yr old girl to protect her from assault, because powers limited to 'observe and report', girl robbed, injured and sues.
*Note Patrol Special Police are armed, trained, and will act to protect life and injury; they are not private security guards.
CBS4 2-2-10 - Miami Beach Police: No Off-Duty Super Bowl Work by Michael Williams
Notes from Mayor’s Press Conference with San Francisco Police Chief Gascon and staff Jan. 29, 2010
SF Chronicle 1-28-10 - San Francisco's Pension Fund the Envy of Others
SF Examiner 1-25-10 - Spike in young robbers
SF Examiner 1-19-10 - Glen Park private patrol program receives glowing reports
SF Chronicle Editorial "A Pension Scandal" 1-18-10 - Pension spiking (by public unions)
World Journal 1-12-10 - Police charged with the public security and peace outreach to community
SF Examiner 1-6-10 - Dufty urges protections for patrol specials
SF Weekly 1-4-10 - Who Likes Cops? Survey Claims Police-for-Hire More Popular than SFPD
Bay Area Reporter 12-31-09 - Patrol Special officer injured in Christmas melee
Op Ed article by Police Chief 12-30-09 - Chief announces certain cutbacks in public police this year
SF Weekly 12-30-09 - Patrol Special Officer Sues City, Claiming Mistreatment Because She Is Lesbian
SF Examiner 12-21-09 - Police Department records distorted (crime underreported says Police Chief)
SF Examiner, 12-21-09 - Chief cracks down on overtime
SF Examiner 12-16-09 - Patrol Special Police offer to serve on public buses
SF Weekly 12-14-09 - San Francisco the Worst Run City in the US
Bay Area Reporter 12-10-09 - Police chief calls for community involvement
ABC Channel 7 News 12-4-09 - SFPD chief launches crackdown on overtime abuse
SF Examiner 4 -13-09 - High cost of off-duty police program known as 10b, threatens street festival organizers
SF Examiner 3-6-09 - Glen Park Patrol Special Safety Program
Channel 2 Evening News with Rob Roth 3-6-09 - video coverage on Glen Park Patrol Special Safety Program
Gallery of Images from the Glen Park Festival 4-09
Video clip of celebration on famed Castro Street with Patrol Special Police standing watch.
SF Weekly 4-19-95 - Cops vs. Cops
Time.com 1-24-77 - The Law: Police For Hire (early article on the Patrol Special Police).