SFPD Pride Patch Project Returns to Support High School Students 25-072

San Francisco Police Department officers are celebrating San Francisco Pride by wearing Pride patches during June and raising funds for the Officer Jon C. Cook Scholarship Foundation.

The scholarship was initiated by the San Francisco Police Officers’ Pride Alliance in 2004 to honor Jon C. Cook, the first openly gay San Francisco police officer who was killed in the line of duty on June 12, 2002. Scholarships in his name are given out to high school seniors. Scholarship applicants must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 and be LGBTQ+, raised by LGBTQ+ parents, or be a family member of an SFPD police officer.

The Pride Patch project began in 2019 as a public awareness campaign to demonstrate the support and inclusiveness of the SFPD to LGBTQ+ communities. SFPD members have proudly worn them every June since.