Unpacking a former police union president’s threatening letter to an SF supervisor

from Civic · host Laura Wenus, Mel Baker

After revealing that a former Police Officers Association president and former consultant in 2018 threatened to publish a city supervisor's husband's disciplinary record as a police officer, journalist Joe Eskenazi unpacks why the story matters in local politics.

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