The SF POA

 

Let’s talk about one of the most powerful and dangerous players in the anti-justice recall effort: the San Francisco Police Officers’ Association.

The SF POA has a long history of blocking justice and equality, from opposing the racial integration of police to more recent efforts to block a citywide ban on deadly chokeholds. Now they are targeting changemaking District Attorney Chesa Boudin, spreading lies about justice to block police accountability. 

The San Francisco POA has massive funding and influence, and it will take all of us stepping up to combat their campaign against police accountability. 

We know police are not effective at stopping crime. In fact, The San Francisco Police Department only solves 3% of theft cases. Despite ignoring or failing to solve nearly every instance of theft, San Francisco police officers remain some of the highest paid in the nation with a starting salary of $90,000, and an all-time high budget of $692 million from 2019-2020. 

Meanwhile, Chesa's office has prosecuted almost all of the burglaries that resulted in arrest, and is doing justice-minded work to end the black-market operations that make thefts profitable in the first place, stopping crimes at their source. But the Police Officers’ Association doesn’t want you to know that.

The San Francisco POA wants to stop Chesa Boudin and his groundbreaking justice work in favor of a racist justice system that targets the poor and marginalized and uses millions of taxpayer dollars to line their own pockets. We have to stop them.

Thank you for stepping up,

Real Justice

Paid for by San Franciscans Against the Recall of Chesa Boudin, sponsored by Real Justice PAC.

Committee major funding from:

1. Real Justice PAC ($100,000) – contributors include Grassroots Law PAC ($200,000), Patty Quillin ($20,000)

2. Dignity CA SEIU Local 2015 ($15,000) – contributors include Service Employees International Union ($4,998,657.72), SEIU Local 2015 ($2,000,000)

3. Smart Justice California Action Fund ($15,000) – contributors include Elizabeth Simons ($425,700), Patty Quillin ($195,000)

Financial disclosures available at sfethics.org.