Jackie Lacy was the first African American woman to serve as District Attorney for Los Angeles but she had a tendency to enforce the law and prosecute crimes so Black lives Matter ran her out of office so a rich liberal white guy could have her job. George Gascon, the new LA DA, is paying back BLM by essentially decriminalizing crime, claiming enforcement of the law is racist.
George Gascon is a former DA from San Francisco and he is now bringing his shithole-making policies to Los Angeles. NPR reports:
Newly sworn-in Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón used his inaugural address to introduce himself as a transformational agent and unveil sweeping changes to the criminal justice system of California’s most populous county.
Among the changes, many of which went into effect Tuesday, call for ending the death penalty, stopping most uses of cash bail for misdemeanor nonserious or nonviolent felony offenses and prioritizing cases for resentencing inmates who are serving excessive prison terms.
“I recognize those are big changes but they are changes that will enable us to actually protect the truly vulnerable,” Gascon said.
Criminals are the vulnerable ones? What about the victims? Gascon don’t care about no stinking victims. This is about enabling scumbags:
…he calls for the banning of sentencing enhancements, a step which could lead to the release of thousands of inmates.
On cash bail, Gascón said by Jan. 1 his office will unveil detailed plans to end the system of money bail “in its entirety.”
The district attorney’s office will also no longer seek the death penalty in Los Angeles County and current cases with a judgment of death will be reviewed, with the ultimate goal of getting the capital punishment removed.
“The reality is the death penalty does not make us safer, it is racist, it’s morally untenable, it’s irreversible and expensive and beginning today it’s off the table in LA County and it’s not just off the table going forward, I am committed to resentencing those currently on death row to life in prison.,” said Gascon.
Gascon also said that he will no longer charge juveniles as adults, even when they commit adult crimes like rape and murder. Additionally, Gascon says that misdemeanors and non-violent felonies won’t be prosecuted.
Not content with just making sure no one in Los Angeles is safe, Gascon also wants to ensure that the “racist” police are screwed too:
He also called for a Use of Force Review Board. Gascón said the review board would comprise civil rights attorneys, members of the community and policing experts, to review law enforcement fatal use-of-force cases going back to 2012.
“The murder of George Floyd this summer was a horrific reminder that too often our profession has failed to hold its own to the same standards we impose on the communities that we are sworn to protect and to serve. It galvanized a generation to stand up, and speak out against a system that the public largely views as a two-tiered system: one for police officers and prosecutors, and one for everyone else,” Gascon said.
George Floyd died from a heart attack brought on by a drug overdose but whatever.
LA was already a dangerous place, but now that George Gascon is opening things up for criminals, it will resemble something between a third-world shithole and the post-apocalyptic nightmare of the Mad Max films. The new DA is inviting people to come to Los Angeles and f*ck shit up.
