previously reported, Scott said he would be open to police department budget cuts in an online panel discussion with Boudin last month."I have a really good relationship with the chief of police in San Francisco.
He was brought in after hunger strikes and protests following high-profile incidents," Boudin said. Boudin — along with the other two prosecutors on the July 1 Zoom call — noted that he does not have as rosy a relationship with police unions.
The San Francisco Police Officers Association, he said, has "an utter resistance to any kind of change."Boudin noted an op-ed that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on June 30 written by a member of the POA's executive board in which he argues that the San Francisco Police Department is.