After opponents worked to 'change the conversation,' the police reforms package failed decisively in the May 6 election.
Internal polling conducted as the proposal was being crafted found that the least popular element of Prop A was a ban on police use of chokeholds — but even that polled at 51% in support.Your donation during our spring member drive helps power our public service journalism.
Just one candidate in two open council races — in District 7 and District 10 — supported Proposition A, and one candidate,her early support after receiving overwhelmingly negative feedback while door-knocking for her campaign. But now, he said, state legislators and lobbyists can point to these election results and say, “Well, 3 out of 4 voters didn’t want that. And that’s the really disappointing part of this whole thing.”
Tomas lamented the fierce opposition from the police union and elected officials and what she called the “misinformation” campaign about cite-and-release. “They just found the one thing that they could scare folks with, right? Fear sometimes drives folks to vote against their own interests,” she said.
Tomas said she doesn’t regret combining all six charter changes into one proposition, which was the basis for possible legal battles had Prop A passed, but she didn’t rule out placing them separately on future ballots.collect tens of thousands of petition signaturesThe nonprofit “still has lots of initiatives that we’re pushing around public safety and policing, and a lot of our partners are working on criminal justice reform, too,” she said. “It’s about continuing those conversations.
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