Joe Alioto Veronese

Joe Alioto Veronese is a former member of the San Francisco Police Commission, and is a former Democratic Party candidate for California State Senate (District 3) including San Francisco, Marin, and Sonoma Counties. He withdrew from the race on March 7, 2008.

Veronese was born in San Francisco, California in 1973. Named after his grandfather, Mayor Joseph L. Alioto, Veronese is the son of Angela Alioto and Adolfo Veronese, owner and operator of several restaurants in San Francisco and Marin County.

Veronese married Julie Gilman in San Francisco on February 19, 2006 at the Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi.

He owns a Sonoma County Vineyard and wine company producing Carneros Pinot Noir, bottled under the label Verotto.

Veronese became involved in law enforcement when, upon graduation from UCLA and the San Francisco Police Academy, he was hired by District Attorney Terence Hallinan as the youngest senior criminal investigator in the history of the office. Veronese worked in the fraud bureau and helped develop and enforce a diversion program to prevent the incarceration of poor families. Veronese also led a unit of investigators in the street-level enforcement against food-stamp trafficking for guns and narcotics.

Veronese was appointed to the San Francisco Police Commission by Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2004. He has worked to reform the Department through increased transparency and accountability to the public and the communities the department serves. Among other important reforms, Veronese brokered a resolution with the police officers association to release misconduct records to the public without violating the rights of police officers. Under his watch, the police commission adopted the first-ever Early Warning System, a multimillion-dollar system of tracking and correcting police misconduct.

The Commission has overseen the hiring of 350 new police officers, an increase of nearly 13% of the force. Veronese has advocated for an increase of foot patrol and a greater community empowerment with the Department. Veronese is currently working with members of the Department to institute the first-ever Green audit and phased mandated involving the City’s largest vehicle fleet. He is also currently working to replace the San Francisco’s Unified School Districts ROTC program with a Police Recruits program to promote civic involvement of school children and public safety in San Francisco schools.

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