Police cash flows to Hochman in D.A. race while support for Gascon dries up

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Rahman pointed to a study by the Bridgespan Group of philanthropic dollars spent annually on criminal justice reform -- including nonprofit organizations, policy campaigns, and electoral races -- which showed such spending peaked around $416 million in 2019, dipping to $207 million in 2022, the last year captured in the study.
43% : Meanwhile, the race is not on the radar of national Democrats as it was in 2020, when Harris and others endorsed Gascón.Insha Rahman, vice president for advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for criminal justice reform, said Gascón's disappearing campaign dollars are part of a broader national trend.
42% : Gascón raked in $13 million in 2020, with more than half coming from committees organized by wealthy Bay Area residents shelling out to support criminal justice reforms after the murder of George Floyd.

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