The Los Angeles County Attorney (District Attorney) George Gascón, who only took office on December 7, immediately issued 12 gold medals after being sworn in, ordering changes to many law enforcement and prosecution rules, drawing opposition, protests and resistance from many crime victims’ families, grassroots prosecutors, law enforcement officials, and even judges. Jaskon, a progressive Democrat “left stick”, will bring big trouble to Los Angeles County. He could be a boon to criminals and bad news for the people.
Jascon’s 12 gold medal directives include: no more death sentences for indicted defendants, no more sentencing enhancements for defendants, no more cash bail requests from prosecutors, no more jail time for most criminal defendants until trial, no more juvenile defendants being tried as adults, and some misdemeanor defendants being able to participate in mentoring programs instead of being prosecuted.
Jascon defeated his opponent, former Attorney General Jackie Lacey, 53.5% to 46.5%, to gain the legal authority to implement the policies he believed were right. But unfortunately, he has shown excessive aggressiveness, self-righteousness, exceeded the legal authority, suspected of indulging in mugging and other unsuitable actions.
When Jascon spoke to his opponents outside the Pomona prosecutor’s office on the 18th, some people shouted at him. Jascon criticized that these people were not educated and thus interrupted his conversation. But the person who shouted was the mother of a young man who was abused, killed and then thrown off a cliff by five thugs in Azusa, and she said, “My son will never speak for himself again, but Jascon ordered the five criminals to have their special circumstance convictions dismissed, meaning they will not be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Second, during anti-police demonstrations in L.A. this summer, a man was charged by prosecutors under then-Attorney General Lacey with vandalizing a railroad facility with the intent to derail a light rail train. The charge of endangering public safety carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. When Jascon took office, he ordered the charges dismissed, but the prosecutor who worked on the case refused to comply, so Jascon sent a close friend to the court to withdraw the charges and order the prosecutor disciplined.
Several other prosecutors appeared in court and stated that they were only carrying out Jascon’s order by withdrawing their requests for bail or enhanced sentences, but this did not mean that they were representing the interests of justice, and several different court judges in L.A. County then ordered that the prosecution’s dismissal be denied, which amounted to a slap in the face to Jascon.
Jascon argued that he was not trying to keep people who had committed crimes from being prosecuted or convicted from being punished, but that incarceration was not the same as allowing criminals to receive the punishment they deserved. This is a consistent claim of typical progressive figures.
Let’s not forget that Jascon was the author and key promoter of the infamous California Proposition 47. The biggest “contribution” of this proposition was to keep criminals who stole property worth less than $950 out of jail, even if the police arrested the suspect, as long as they registered in the police station to pass the water, they could come out and continue to commit crimes, endangering good people and hard-working businesses.
At the time, Proposition 47 was “pseudonymously” called the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” (The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act), completely ignoring the $950 super-gospel for criminals. Many of the voters who voted for the bill were shocked to learn that they had been duped years later when property crime in California worsened.
Jascon’s deceptive, progressive rhetoric in promoting Proposition 47 is very similar to the current claim that “incarceration does not equal punishment for criminals. Does he think voters can continue to be deceived by progressives?
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