Two years later Frazer entered the police academy and trained at the old Potrero Station before being assigned to the Richmond Station. She began her law enforcement career in 1993 as a deputy with the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. I have truly valued and appreciated the opportunity to serve the city and county of San Francisco."įrazer graduated cum laude in 1985 from St. I had an opportunity to work in one of the greatest cities in the world.
"I planned on staying with SFPD 30 years because I am a lifer or longer. I am still wrestling with it," said Frazer, 59, who grew up in Concord and lives in the East Bay. "I had to retire early because I got injured. This weekend she and her wife are co-hosting a private retirement party to bring Frazer some closure as she transitions into being a civilian again. I loved representing our department and being a part of our community."īut her time with the San Francisco Police Department was cut short due to her needing to medically retire in February. I loved being a San Francisco police officer. "Some of my best times in my job was as the Castro beat officer," Frazer recalled in a recent phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. Out as a gay woman within the department, she patrolled the city's LGBTQ neighborhood for close to a decade starting in 1999. Even in retirement San Francisco police Lieutenant Lisa Frazer will forever be remembered as the Castro's beat cop.