Primary law enforcement agency for San Diego, CA; second-largest municipal police department in California.
The TikTok-driven trend of speed running Scientology buildings has spread from Los Angeles to the UK and other countries. Teenagers have sparked investigations as crowds enter centers, prompting police action and church condemnations across multiple cities.
Police are responding to an active shooter incident at the Islamic Center of San Diego in Clairemont. Authorities say people have been shot; the situation is ongoing and authorities are on scene.
Police-linked 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez and 17-year-old Cain Clark to radicalization online; Vazquez and Clark attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, then killed themselves. Authorities have used a 2014 California gun-confiscation law to remove 26 firearms from Vazquez’s home, with family statements alleging exposure to extremist online content.
A San Francisco business theft involving a Waymo driverless car remains unsolved months after a January incident. Police obtained video and account data but have not identified a suspect. The company says it does not use facial recognition and reviews requests for legal validity.
A Florida man has filed suit against multiple law-enforcement agencies for wrongful arrest and prosecution after a faulty facial-recognition match flagged him as a child-luring suspect at a Jacksonville Beach McDonald’s in August 2024. The case, now in federal court, alleges officers concealed exculpatory evidence and relied on a low-quality image from a screen grab. The plaintiff lives hundreds of miles away and says he never visited the site.