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City to consider no confidence vote for Gascón https://www.avpress.com//article_7f9c8724-a73a-11eb-97f0-f

Our Monday Morning Memo for April 26 is now available.

The remarkable change is that at a time when gang murders are reaching levels that we haven’t seen in 10, 20 years, Gascón has decided to cut the gang unit to fulfill a political promise that he’s given to fringe groups. https://www.pasadenanow.com//da-announces-reorganization-/

George Gascón’s policies have come home to roost in the Santa Clarita Valley. We predicted that the new Los Angeles County district attorney and his policies aimed at justice reform would diminish public safety and embolden criminals throughout the county, and even here in the SCV, one of the safest communities in the nation. That prediction is already coming true, in many small ways and now, one big one. https://signalscv.com//our-view-gascon-chickens-home-to-r/

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón says that science and data justify his criminal justice policies, including his decision to eliminate sentencing enhancements and abandon the three strikes law. According to Gascón, scientific evidence unequivocally confirms that longer sentences harm public safety by boosting repeat offenses. Read the full article: https://www.laadda.com/ideology-not-data-drives-das-procri/

Our Monday Morning Memo is now available! https://www.laadda.com/monday-morning-memo-for-april-19-20/

L.A. County D.A. Gascón Dismantles Hardcore Gang Unit For New ‘Public Health Approach’ @JeffreyCawood https://www.dailywire.com//l-a-county-d-a-gascon-dismantle

LA County sheriff says he has no relationship with DA Gascón, his policies ‘are not working’ https://www.foxnews.com//la-sheriff-says-he-has-no-relatio

A Media Savvy Deputy DA Is Leading a Noisy Crusade Against George Gascón https://www.lamag.com//gascon-jon-hatami-district-attorney/

Gascon's downsizing of gang unit draws criticism, confusion https://www.latimes.com//gascons-downsizing-of-gang-unit-d

Pico Rivera becomes 3rd city to approve vote of no confidence in Gascón's reforms https://www.foxla.com//pico-rivera-becomes-3rd-city-to-app

Pico Rivera council considers vote of no confidence against LA DA Gascon https://www.whittierdailynews.com//pico-rivera-council-co/

South LA mom wants DA to seek gang enhancement in daughter's death https://spectrumnews1.com//south-la-mom-wants-da-to-seek-g

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Sister of gang violence victim slams LA DA Gascón's push to eliminate juvenile strikes https://www.foxnews.com//sister-of-gang-violence-victim-sl

Our Monday Morning Memo for April 12, 2021 is now available. https://www.laadda.com/monday-morning-memo-for-april-12-20/

Under fire, LA County District Attorney George Gascòn sticks to his directives https://abc7.com/gascon-district-attorney-la-george-poli//

The judge presiding in the case between the Association of Deputy District Attorneys and the Los Angeles County District Attorney has ruled in the ADDA's favor. The court ruled as we expected in holding that the District Attorney cannot order his prosecutors to ignore laws that protect the public from repeat offenders. Read our complete release.

Eric Siddall, vice president of the Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys, the union representing county prosecutors, said the latest transfers and attrition had left 29 prosecutors working in the gang unit, which previously had nearly 50 people covering cases. Most of the 700 open cases are murders and require very specialized training to manage, said Siddall, who spent five years as a prosecutor in the gang division. ``You cannot handle the amount of gang mur...ders and attempted murders that are in this county with 29 prosecutors. You just cannot,'' he said, arguing that the D.A.'s office would be forced to enlist other prosecutors outside the unit and without sufficient training or experience to handle the caseload. Siddall also challenged the idea that working closely with law enforcement and the community is anything truly new. He said that prosecutors operating under federal grants from the Community Law Enforcement and Recovery (CLEAR) anti-gang program have long done so, though they were moved out of traditional station posts by previous administrations. ``The remarkable change is that at a time when gang murders are reaching levels that we haven't seen in 10, 20 years, (Gascon) has decided to cut the gang unit to fulfill a political promise that he's given to fringe groups,'' Siddall said. ``It is typical of what this administration does. It does not make decisions based upon public safety. It does not make decisions about what is good for the case,'' the union spokesman said. ``It makes decisions based upon what it feels will poll well with the public.'' https://patriotla.iheart.com//2021-04-09-gascon-pushes-to/

Families of crime victims protest DA George Gascon during his Lancaster visit https://www.foxla.com//families-of-crime-victims-protest-d

George Gascón’s plan to downsize DA’s gang unit concerns top deputies, demoralizes prosecutors https://www.dailynews.com//george-gascons-plan-to-downsiz/

A Prosecutor’s Job Doesn’t End at Sentencing https://signalscv.com//jon-hatami-a-prosecutors-job-doesn/

LA's Three Strikes Legal Battle May Impact SF Rules https://www.nbcbayarea.com//las-three-strikes-leg/2437903/

Taking on Progressive Prosecutors - District attorneys who refuse to enforce the criminal law are violating their oath to support and defend the Constitutionand could be challenged on those grounds. https://www.city-journal.org/taking-on-progressive-prosecut

When you put a public defender in to be the chief law officer, you can expect him to side with criminals and not victims, Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert https://californiaglobe.com//da-chesa-boudin-was-former-p/

ADDA president Michele Hanisee appeared on the Gary & Shannon Show on KFI AM 640 to discuss the pending lawsuit against District Attorney George Gascon.

Our Monday Morning Memo for January 4, 2021, is now available.

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Are we still wondering why @GeorgeGascon will not release his LAPD personnel records? Do they contain sexual harassment complaints? #MeToo https://yashar.substack.com/p/exclusive-los-angeles-mayor-w

LA DA's Jackie Lacey Won't be Intimidated https://www.nbclosangeles.com//la-das-jackie-lace/2452995/

Complex and tough investigations by some very dedicated and compassionate officers. GREAT WORK.

Our Monday Morning Memo for November 2, 2020, is now available.

Gascón’s Proposed Policies Guided By Inexperience There are few positions where experience matters as much as the head of the largest prosecutorial office in the country. George Gascón, candidate for Los Angeles County district attorney, seeks to lead that office without ever having prosecuted a case himself. And there is perhaps no better illustration of the consequences of this lack of experience as his policy proposal in domestic violence cases. Specifically, Gascón proposes that domestic violence victims, even if served with a subpoena, will no longer have to come to court to testify. This seemingly humane proposal is fraught with unintended consequences, including the dismissal of many disturbing domestic violence cases. Read the full article:https://www.laadda.com/gascons-proposed-policies-guided-by/

Our Monday Morning Memo for October 24, 2020, is now available.

UPCOMING EVENT: A CONVERSATION with~ LA DISTRICT ATTORNEY #JackieLacey @ladaoffice for Victims of Crime Please join in on Wednesday, 10/28 at 6:00PM on #Faceb...ookLive ! LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD!

Please read the article by San Francisco Mayor London Breed San Francisco’s former district attorney, George Gascon, who left town before his term was finished so he could run for D.A. in Los Angeles, has a long history of going whichever way the winds blow, saying whatever suits his political purposes, and only looking out for himself. Nevertheless, I was shocked to read how Gascon is now trying to explain why I, along with San Francisco’s well-respected city attorney, Denni...s Hererra, oppose his candidacy. Gascon claims he rattled cages in San Francisco and that’s why our city’s top leaders oppose him. Click the link to read the rest of the article. https://lasentinel.net/gascon-is-always-looking-out-for-gas

Let's take a close look at the progress of Jackie Lacey vs. George Gascon.

Jackie Lacey vs. George Gascon

Let's take a close look at the progress Jackie Lacey vs. George Gascon.

Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert appears on KFI's John & Ken show to discuss her endorsement of Jackie Lacey in the upcoming LA County DA race.