Police Files: Honesty Is the Best Policy (For Getting Arrested When You Threaten to Kill People In Front of the Cops)

Advance warning of an intended homicide -- is it too much to ask?

Integrity is not a trivial personality trait. Honesty matters. No one likes a person who insists he's going to do something and never follows through -- unless, of course, you're the guy who stumbles through the street loudly proclaiming homicidal intentions and then fail to carry them out. A loud drunk with fleeting murderous desires is far less of a nuisance than an alcohol-fueled killing machine.

That's the way it went with a San Francisco man who was arrested on late Monday by San Francisco police on Morningside Drive, not far from Lake Merced:

Officers ...  investigated a man walking down the street stating that he was  going to kill someone. The officers arrested the resident of the first block of Meadowbrook for public drunkeness and resisting arrest.

We can only encourage such openness and transparency for all of the city's would-be killers. Advance notice of a homicide, especially delivered via law-enforcement officials, would definitely improve this city's murder rate. Keep it up!