George Gascon, LAs woke DA, deserves to lose re-election for enabling rampant crime

Progressive prosecutor George Gascón, Los Angeles County district attorney since December 2020, is in a tight race to hold on to power against independent candidate Nathan Hochman.The reason is quite simple: Gascón, who enjoys the financial backing of liberal billionaire George Soros, is a polarizing, soft-on-crime prosecutor who enables violent crime to flourish, impacting Los Angeles’ most vulnerable citizens.In contrast, Hochman has bipartisan support from across the county, including from legacy Democrats like Rory and Max Kennedy, a daughter and son of Sen.Robert F.

Kennedy, and many others — because Hochman wants to enforce the law fairly and independently while holding criminals accountable.Gascón first served as DA in San Francisco from 2011 to 2019.There he co-authored Proposition 47, a “criminal justice” reform measure passed by California voters in 2014.The measure reclassified non-violent felonies and led to the release of thousands of inmates, ultimately weakening law enforcement’s ability to deter repeat offenders.Prop.

47, Gascón said, was meant to “reduce incarceration rates” and “address systemic inequalities” to turn our legal system “upside down.”The notion of not prosecuting crimes in the name of social justice — which, to be clear, means failing to enforce the law equally — undergirded radical Gascón’s policies then, and does so even more today.The result is always the same: more crime.During Gascón’s time in San Francisco, property crime increased by 49%, and his office filed misdemeanor charges in only 40% of the cases presented by the San Francisco Police Department.In other words, Gascón dropped 60% of the arrests made by the SFPD as if they never happened.Meanwhile, California is caught in a pandemic of assault, robbery, car theft, and shoplifting — this last up a staggering 39% statewide in the last year — largely as a result of Gascón’s worldview.I lived in Los Angeles from 2017 to May 202...