Fascinating, true, but little-known episodes about the dark side of San Francisco’s criminal justice history.

1859. Sex, race and homicide take a curious turn in the ante-    bellum city.

1891.  A celebrity cop-killer, literally caught in the act, evades the toils of the law through the efforts of his “dream team” attorneys. 

1908.  In the midst of a turn-of-the twentieth-century graft scandal, the police chief disappears into the Bay over the side of the police launch.

1926.  Terror bandits mount a murder spree which  paralyzes the Prohibition-era city.

1932. The city’s first public defender, and befriender of lonely widows, turns out to be a murderer and probable serial killer.

In SAN FRANCISCO POLICE STORIES, former Deputy Police Chief Kevin Mullen rescues the city’s turbulent criminal justice past from an undeserved obscurity. -- Joseph Harrington, Internationally published

      true crime writer.

Taking crime in old San Francisco as his text, Kevin Mullen addresses some of the central issues facing police departments in any age, and challenges some of our accepted myths about times past.

                  --  Cornelius Murphy, Former Chief of Police.