NBC Bay Area just called Adachi a "police misconduct watchdog"
"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, a renowned advocate for the accused and an outspoken watchdog on police misconduct, has died. He was 59.
Mayor London Breed confirmed Friday night that Adachi had died, saying that San Francisco had “lost a dedicated public servant.” He was the only elected public defender in California.
Every year, Adachi’s office wore T-shirts in San Francisco’s Gay Pride Parade that read, ‘Getting People Off Since 1921.”"
sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Public-Defender-Jeff-Adachi-dies-13638785.php