The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association PAC plays a vital role in promoting the interests of public safety and law enforcement within our city. Our mission is to advocate for pro public safety candidates and ballot measures that will enhance the safety and security of our neighborhoods, protect our communities, and provide our brave deputy sheriffs with the resources they need to serve and protect.
Your generous contribution will make a significant impact on our ability to endorse and support candidates who share our vision of a safer San Francisco. By supporting these pro public safety individuals, we can ensure that our city’s law enforcement agencies have the necessary support, tools, and policies to effectively combat crime, respond to emergencies, and maintain peace and order.
Furthermore, your donation will allow us to back critical ballot measures that address key public safety issues, such as improving community policing efforts, investing in modern law enforcement technologies, and strengthening crime prevention programs. Together, we can shape the future of public safety in San Francisco and create a safer environment for all residents.
As a valued supporter, you have the opportunity to influence the direction of our city’s public safety policies and the well-being of our law enforcement officers. Your contribution to the San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association PAC will directly impact the success of our endorsed candidates and initiatives, fostering positive change within our community.
We invite you to join us in our mission to enhance public safety in San Francisco. Your generous donation of $25 will help us amplify our collective voice and bring about the necessary changes to protect our neighborhoods, families, and businesses.
To make a donation, please visit our secure online donation portal at https://fundly.com/san-francisco-deputy-sheriffs-association-pac Alternatively, you can mail your contribution or contact us directly at 415-696-2428 to discuss other giving options or answer any questions you may have.
Together, we can build a safer San Francisco for generations to come. We sincerely appreciate your consideration and support. Join us in our commitment to public safety and make a difference today.
Thank you for your unwavering support.
Sincerely,
Ken Lomba
SFDSA President
San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association PAC
P.O. Box 77590
San Francisco, CA 94107
SF Deputy Sheriffs replacing SF Police Officers at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) would save the City’s general fund by deploying over 200 police officers from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to vacant police officer positions within the City. The initial savings would be 31 million dollars, as indicated in the Budget Legislative Analysis report.
Reallocating some or all of the SFPD resources currently devoted to this low crime area (SFO) to the higher crime areas of the City, like the Tenderloin has obvious benefits. Access to these additional officers for quality investigation of the significant crimes within San Francisco, would protect residents and serve as a fiscal savings in the overall budget. Foot patrols and a larger SFPD presence in areas that attract tourists would provide for a safer experience for the citizens and visitors in San Francisco. In turn, the problems facing our tourist industry and revenues that flow from them will likely improve significantly.
We conducted a survey to see what the voters thought of this idea. 80% percent support the idea of SFSO replacing the SFPD at SFO.
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office specializes in addressing the law enforcement needs of government buildings and provides an excellent professional alternative to the San Francisco Police Department. The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association urges you to consider, support and implement a phased plan to replace some or all of the law enforcement duties with the SFSO deputies at the San Francisco Airport.
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office is one of the City’s best kept secrets and a hidden jewel amongst law enforcement agencies. The SFSO has been in existence since 1850, but goes largely unnoticed by many of its residents. Since San Francisco is both a city and a county, the Sheriff’s Office maintains a lower profile than most large, county agencies. However, the Sheriff and its diverse group of deputies have unobtrusively served its residents, performing many essential services, within the county, for a long time. Its unique history and long-established practice of embracing diversity, inclusiveness and valuing the advancement and promotion of its LGBTQI, women and minority deputies is out of the ordinary when compared to most law enforcement agencies throughout the country.
The Sheriff’s Office is a law enforcement agency with a variety of functions. Patrol, investigations, court services, law enforcement within and protection of government buildings are some of the important services provided by the Sheriff’s Office. Some who are familiar with the SFSO may associate it with its long history of responsibilities relating to the housing and the monitoring of incarcerated individuals, but many do not realize the agency has evolved into one of the most progressive leaders of the restorative justice process in San Francisco. Many justice partner collaborations, reforms, education projects and programs were developed under the long-term leadership of Criminal Justice Reform Pioneer, Sheriff Michael Hennessey, have become the national model and continue to flourish under the current Sheriff, Paul Miyamoto. These varied responsibilities, along with the work done in its Community Programs Unit, Civil Section and the Transportation Unit are staffed by an amazingly diverse body of deputized staff. This eclectic law enforcement agency provides these much needed services to its residents and the county’s justice system.
Additionally, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Training Unit stays on the cutting edge of issues that plague community relations with law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. The Training Staff works hard to address any problems within the SFSO which may erode the public’s confidence in its ability to fairly provide essential law enforcement services to the city of San Francisco. The sworn staff of the Sheriff’s Office is dedicated to eradicating any practices which may interfere with the goal of establishing trust between them, as a local law enforcement agency and the community which they serve. The long established dedication to diverse hiring is an integral part in achieving this goal and is essential in bridging the divide.
For decades the Sheriff’s Office has prided itself on diversity amongst the ranks of sworn officers. Diversity is important and this is why;
Study Finds Increasing Diversity Can Decrease Police Misconduct
A 2016 study published in the American Society for Public Administration found increasing a police force’s ethnic diversity can reduce officer misconduct. “An increase in the proportion of ethnic minority police officers is significantly associated with a decrease in police misconduct,” the study noted.
“Because their fellow police officer is representing these cultures, there’s just a natural, organic way in which people become a little bit more open minded, a little more progressive thinking, a little bit more compassionate and empathetic, because they see in these individuals, their own friends, their own colleagues, their own peers,” said Rob Davis, former San Jose Police Chief and current law enforcement consultant with the Chicago-based security firm Hillard Heintze. “Your police department has to be reflective of that community.”
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department has been way ahead of its time in establishing an agency which is a reflection of the community. One of the most unique aspects of the Sheriff’s immense diversity is that it did not reach these impressive ratios through mandates but came about through embracing a progressive philosophy that welcomed and encouraged people of various races, women and LGBTQI individuals to join the agency.
The charts provided are a comparison of the racial breakdown of sworn personnel within large law enforcement agencies in San Francisco.
We asked the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office how do they recruit diverse applicants. Sheriff’s Captain Sanford stated, “We have attended numerous community and cultural events throughout the city. We have also attended community based job fairs, city job fairs and college job fairs. Deputy Sheriff Moret also attended a job fair that included students from the Atlanta University Center (Three Historically Black Colleges & Universities).”
The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association President Ken Lomba stated, “We are a labor union that represents more than 720 deputies and senior deputies who serve and protect San Franciscans in the jails, the courts, city hall, and in specialized assignments throughout the City. Our diversity makes us better engage with the community and we are proud of that.”
The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association PAC plays a vital role in promoting the interests of public safety and law enforcement within our city. Our mission is to advocate for pro public safety candidates and ballot measures that will enhance the safety and security of our neighborhoods, protect our communities, and provide our brave deputy sheriffs with the resources they need to serve and protect.
