PORAC has one of the largest legal defense funds in country--and contributed to the defense of Johannes Mehserle.
With so much focus on the California Correctional Peace Officers Association as a political juggernaut, another influential law enforcement group in Sacramento seldom gets its due: the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC).
PORAC came to some Bay Area people’s attention during the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the former BART officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter for killing Oscar Grant. PORAC’s legal defense fund, apparently the largest such fund in the country, covered Mehserle’s legal bills.