Boston Police Patrolmen's Association

The History of the BPPA

Well into the 1988 race for President, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis held a comfortable lead over Republican George Bush. Then the BPPA, the largest police union in Dukakis' home state, announced they would endorse Bush. Nearly every major newspaper in the country carried this picture on it's front page. Crime became one of the hottest issues in the campaign, and Bush surged in the polls, eventually winning the Presidency.