Jascon was elected as L.A. County Attorney on Dec. 7 last year, and he has been in office for just over two months before a civic group was formed to recall him. As of March 6, Jascon has been in office for three months, and the recall campaign can be launched, with the civic recall group scheduled to file a notice of intent on March 8.
Jascon, an immigrant from Cuba, joined the U.S. Army at age 18, then joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he served as an assistant police chief. 2009, then-San Francisco Mayor Newsom appointed Jascon as San Francisco Police Chief; in 2011, after Kamala Harris was promoted to California Attorney General, Newsom appointed Jascon as San Francisco District Attorney, during which Time crime rates rose and policing conditions deteriorated.
Far-left policy of “criminals before victims”
In December 2020, Jascon made major policy changes upon taking office as L.A. County Attorney, including ending the bail system, converting the death penalty to Life in prison (with parole after 20-30 years), prohibiting prosecutors from filing special circumstance aggravations against offenders, such as not counting his prior criminal history, disregarding gang crimes and hate crimes, treating the sale of large doses of cocaine and the peddling of 2 grams of lesser doses as the same crime, etc. as the same crime, etc. The recall group says these policies are a radical agenda that “ignores the victim and disregards the victim” and that Jascon is “releasing dangerous criminals from prison at an alarming rate.
In 2019, Pasadena resident Heber Enoc Diaz, 29, entered the Home of Arcadia resident Chyong Jen Tsai, 76, in the early morning hours and used a hammer, stabbing saw and box cutter to break half of Ms. Tsai’s skull, strangle her, and stab and slash her cheeks, lips, chin, neck , chest and multiple parts of her legs.
Upon taking office, Jascon directed the prosecutor’s office to ask the court to dismiss the two special circumstance aggravation charges against Diaz for “murder committed during robbery and burglary,” saying in a statement that “excessive sentences increase recidivism and create more victims in the future. ” Ms. Cai’s Family said they could not accept a sentence that was changed from death to life with the possibility of release after 20 years, and the family joined the campaign to remove Jascon from prison.
For violent juvenile offenders, Jascon requires that an inmate may not be held until he is over the age of 25, even for vicious gang murders, massacres, serial rapists and homicides where multiple people are murdered; they will be tried in juvenile court only, without exception, no matter how violent the juvenile offense was or how many violent crimes were committed. When a 17-year-old minor shot and killed his 16-year-old girlfriend and his girlfriend’s 20-year-old sister, and burned down their apartment building, Jascon argued that the maximum sentence should not exceed seven years in prison; and Jascon ignored the victims’ families’ requests to meet with them.
In addition, Jascon hired Tiffiny Blacknell as a deputy prosecutor. Blacknell tweeted that L.A. County police were “barbarians” and an “occupying force” during last year’s Black Lives Matter movement, which saw beatings, vandalism and looting in Los Angeles, and also advocated cutting police forces. Bracknell also said that “prisons are obsolete” and called for a “rebuilding of America without prisons.
On Feb. 27, Strike Out held a “Victims’ Vigil” in front of the Los Angeles Municipal Justice Building, with about 100 people attending the event. One Hispanic victim’s family cried out, “It’s not fair, let him (Jascon) step down.”
Indicted after less than a month in office
Last December, less than a month after taking office, Jascon was sued by the Los Angeles County District Attorneys Association (ADDA), asking the court to enjoin his new policies, which have put prosecutors in a position where they cannot practice law.
Vice President Eric Siddall questioned, “Should we follow California’s legal and ethical responsibilities and risk being disciplined, or even fired, by our new boss (Jascon), or follow his instructions and risk losing our California bar license and thus our eligibility to practice anywhere within the United States? “
Alex Villanueva, Chief of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, described, “As of February 27, murders in Los Angeles County increased from 46 to 64, a 39 percent increase, and aggravated assault crimes increased from 2,473 to 2,738, an 11 percent increase, when comparing the same period in 2020 and 2021. Shootings rose from 303 to 570, an 88 percent increase.”
Villanueva said the trend is frightening and is going in the wrong direction. Villanueva, who is the first Hispanic chief in L.A. County in more than 100 years, has joined the recall campaign. Some who had voted for Jascon also expressed regret, saying he ran on very different promises and should have checked his resume at the time.
Villanueva said, “George Soros, who funded Jascon’s campaign last year and helped Jascon defeat Jackie Lacy, the African-American female prosecutor Soros had previously funded, was funded by the same George Soros organization, which is a very well-funded organization.”
Members of the group to remove Jascon include Victims’ rights advocates, former Los Angeles prosecutor Stephen Cooley, former Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine and former County Board of Supervisors Supervisor Michael Antonovich. Michael Antonovich. Zine is the chairman of the recall group, and Antonovich is the honorary chairman.
According to the schedule, on March 8, the recall group filed its notice of intent; on March 22, the recall group was supposed to file a blank recall petition (signature form); and on April 1, after the petition was approved, the recall group needed to collect 10 percent of the 5.5 million Los Angeles County voters’ signatures within 160 days (by Sept. 10), or more than 550,000 signatures.
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