Greg Suhr
Greg Suhr
Greg Suhr was the Police Chief of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). He has worked in the San Francisco Police department for 33 years. He was elected chief in 2011 when then Chief of police George Gascon became district attorney.
In 2012 Greg was awarded the Silver Medal of Valor after he shot and wounded an armed gang member, and was able to take him into custody without harming anyone else.
Greg was born and raised in San Francisco, California and graduated from St. Ignatius High School and the University of San Francisco.
Resignation
Suhr resigned at the request of San Francisco, California Mayor Ed Lee, who cited “tensions between law enforcement and communities of color that have simmered for too many years.”
The event that lead to the mayor asking for Greg's resignation was an incident on Thursday May 19, 2016 where San Francisco Police shot and killed an unarmed 27 year old black woman in a stolen car who tried to escape the police.
After Greg Suhr's resignation Deputy Police Chief Toney Chaplin will serve as acting chief.
Previous Scandals
December 2015 Mario Woods a black man holding a knife was shot over 20 times and killed by five San Francisco Police officers. [1] The killing sparked protests by the Black Lives Matter movement and calls for his resignation.
July 2015
A gun was stolen by from a Bureau of Land Management car and wasn't found by police searching for the weapon, until it was used to murder Kate Steinle.
June 2015 Greg Suhr drew criticism for declining to pursue grant money to clear a backlog of rape kits, then reversed his position and pledged to get the job done. [1]
April 2015 Federal public defenders cast doubts on a Tenderloin drug sting that only indicted black people, despite surveillance video showing people of other races attempting to sell drugs to undercover cops. [1]
March 2015 The exposure of racist text messages exchanged by more than a dozen SFPD cops jeopardizes thousands of cases and reveals a troubling culture inside the rank and file. [1]
February 2015 SFPD officers fatally shoot Amilcar Perez-Lopez. Suhr's defense of the shooting — that Perez-Lopez was charging officers with a knife — is belied by an autopsy showing he was shot in the back. [1]
December 2014 A drug tester skimmed supplies in crime lab jeopardizes thousands of cases while a according to a whistleblower the SFPD knew about the trouble for years. [1]
2013 Greg Suhr was sued for retaliation by an SFPD lawyer who recommended his firing for mishandling the 2009 DV incident and whom he fired two weeks after being named chief. The city settled the lawsuit in March 2015 for $725,000. [1]
2009 Demotion No. 2: Suhr is demoted to captain after failing to file a report after a female friend told Greg Suhr she'd been attacked by a boyfriend. [1]
2005 Demotion No. 1: Then Chief Heather Fong reassigned Suhr from Head of Patrol to guarding the city's water supply, reportedly for mishandling a G-8 protest that left a police officer with a fractured skull. [1]
2003 Deputy Chief Suhr is charged with allegedly conspiring to obstruct the investigation into the case of three off-duty cops beating up a man over a bag of fajitas — a.k.a. Fajitagate. A judge eventually threw out Suhr's indictment. [1]