In the year since George Gascón became L.A. County District Attorney, his office has become ground zero for the national movement to end mass incarceration and address racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Among his most controversial policies are those aimed at reducing prison sentences for serious and violent felonies.
On Dec. 7, 2020, the day he took office, Gascón took aim at two common so-called sentencing enhancements L.A. prosecutors had used to lengthen prison time for tens of thousands of people accused of using guns while committing crimes and/or committing crimes for the benefit of a gang. The overwhelming majority of them were Black and Brown men.
Using the California Public Records Act, we obtained data on the filing of gang and gun sentencing enhancements — also called allegations — for the first half of each year from 2012 to 2021. The numbers reveal a tectonic shift.
The data shows the filing of gang allegations from January through June of this year plunged 99% compared with the average for the same time period over the previous nine years — from 2,289 to 30.
Prosecutors filed 731 gun allegations in the first six months of this year — that’s a 63% drop compared with the average of 1,973 in the first half of the previous nine years.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again, the question was where is there polling or documentation of a national DNC agenda to ignore gun crime?
Here is my issue.....
I don't doubt that there are Democrats who are opposed to the lax measures being taken by these progressive prosecutors. I am sure there are moderates out there that think the inclination to go easy on these repeat violent offenders is not good for society.
The problem is that there are no prominent Democrats, in these DA's districts, or any other district, speaking up AGAINST the policies that put these violent criminals back on the street. There is no outcry from the left. As they say, silence is complicity.
Did any of these DA's specifically run on a platform of being lax on gun crime? Can anyone show that they did? Or was there a bait-and-switch?
What is funny is how desperate you are to distance your party from its policies. You know enough to know these policies are radioactive to the general public, and you know darn well which party is pushing these policies.
What's funny is that for all of your handwaving you still haven't actually shown any specific evidence showing the party as a whole is specifically advocating for going weak on gun crimes. You say they are "pushing" it so show me a memo, a statement, ANYTHING to prove it.
The fact that we have Soros-funded progressive Democrat DA's across the country who, instead of doing their jobs as prosecutors, are acting like they are public defenders or legislators changing the laws is evidence enough. These people are not interested in advocating for victims of crimes. They are advocating for the criminals. When Democrats start speaking up against these prosecutors and start taking a more reasonable approach to prosecuting violent crime, then we will reconsider what the Democrats stand for IRT crime and punishment. That has not happened.
Ahh there it is, the "Soros" bogeyman. You know this is where you start to slip into looking like a conspiracy monger.
Even so, you STILL haven't shown any specific evidence of an "agenda" that specifically says to give gun crime a pass.
In 2017, the year before District Attorney Larry Krasner took office, the city had 315 murders.
As of last night, the city had 499 murders, one short of the all-time record of 500, set back in 1990, at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic.
If Philadelphia continues on its current record pace, the city will finish this year with 563 murders, a 79% increase since Larry Krasner has been D.A.
Krasner has previously blamed the city's gun violence epidemic on the pandemic, poverty, the city's failing schools, as well as systemic racism. The one person Larry Krasner never blames is Larry Krasner.
Yet, according to statistics kept by the D.A.'s office, the conviction rate for prosecuting gun crimes in the D.A.'s office has dropped from 64% in 2017, the last year Seth Williams was D.A., all the way down to 35% this year under Progressive Larry Krasner, a decrease of 45%
Meanwhile, according to the D.A.'s own statistics, the number of gun crime cases withdrawn or dismissed by the D.A.'s office has more than doubled, rising from 27% in 2017, the last year Seth Williams was D.A., all the way up to 61% this year under Progressive Larry Krasner.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again, the question was where is there polling or documentation of a national DNC agenda to ignore gun crime?
Here is my issue.....
I don't doubt that there are Democrats who are opposed to the lax measures being taken by these progressive prosecutors. I am sure there are moderates out there that think the inclination to go easy on these repeat violent offenders is not good for society.
The problem is that there are no prominent Democrats, in these DA's districts, or any other district, speaking up AGAINST the policies that put these violent criminals back on the street. There is no outcry from the left. As they say, silence is complicity.
Did any of these DA's specifically run on a platform of being lax on gun crime? Can anyone show that they did? Or was there a bait-and-switch?
What is funny is how desperate you are to distance your party from its policies. You know enough to know these policies are radioactive to the general public, and you know darn well which party is pushing these policies.
What's funny is that for all of your handwaving you still haven't actually shown any specific evidence showing the party as a whole is specifically advocating for going weak on gun crimes. You say they are "pushing" it so show me a memo, a statement, ANYTHING to prove it.
The fact that we have Soros-funded progressive Democrat DA's across the country who, instead of doing their jobs as prosecutors, are acting like they are public defenders or legislators changing the laws is evidence enough. These people are not interested in advocating for victims of crimes. They are advocating for the criminals. When Democrats start speaking up against these prosecutors and start taking a more reasonable approach to prosecuting violent crime, then we will reconsider what the Democrats stand for IRT crime and punishment. That has not happened.
Ahh there it is, the "Soros" bogeyman. You know this is where you start to slip into looking like a conspiracy monger.
Even so, you STILL haven't shown any specific evidence of an "agenda" that specifically says to give gun crime a pass.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again, the question was where is there polling or documentation of a national DNC agenda to ignore gun crime?
Here is my issue.....
I don't doubt that there are Democrats who are opposed to the lax measures being taken by these progressive prosecutors. I am sure there are moderates out there that think the inclination to go easy on these repeat violent offenders is not good for society.
The problem is that there are no prominent Democrats, in these DA's districts, or any other district, speaking up AGAINST the policies that put these violent criminals back on the street. There is no outcry from the left. As they say, silence is complicity.
There's hardly any prominent Republicans anywhere willing to speak out against violent right wing extremism like the violent attack on the US Capitol on 1/6 or the guy arrested on his way to assassinate Dr. Fauci, or the massive right wing propaganda machine that is fueling that violence and extremism with lies like Trump's Big Lie and anti-vaxx conspiracy theories. And the few who do get attacked by their own party.
So don't presume to tell me the right wing has any coherent policy to offer where it comes to containing violent crime. Shut down the toxic disinformation, denounce the extremism, join in the prosecution of those who participated in it and maybe THEN you will have some credibility, maybe THEN you might be worth listening to.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again, the question was where is there polling or documentation of a national DNC agenda to ignore gun crime?
Here is my issue.....
I don't doubt that there are Democrats who are opposed to the lax measures being taken by these progressive prosecutors. I am sure there are moderates out there that think the inclination to go easy on these repeat violent offenders is not good for society.
The problem is that there are no prominent Democrats, in these DA's districts, or any other district, speaking up AGAINST the policies that put these violent criminals back on the street. There is no outcry from the left. As they say, silence is complicity.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again, the question was where is there polling or documentation of a national DNC agenda to ignore gun crime?
Here is my issue.....
I don't doubt that there are Democrats who are opposed to the lax measures being taken by these progressive prosecutors. I am sure there are moderates out there that think the inclination to go easy on these repeat violent offenders is not good for society.
The problem is that there are no prominent Democrats, in these DA's districts, or any other district, speaking up AGAINST the policies that put these violent criminals back on the street. There is no outcry from the left. As they say, silence is complicity.
Did any of these DA's specifically run on a platform of being lax on gun crime? Can anyone show that they did? Or was there a bait-and-switch?
What is funny is how desperate you are to distance your party from its policies. You know enough to know these policies are radioactive to the general public, and you know darn well which party is pushing these policies.
What's funny is that for all of your handwaving you still haven't actually shown any specific evidence showing the party as a whole is specifically advocating for going weak on gun crimes. You say they are "pushing" it so show me a memo, a statement, ANYTHING to prove it.
The fact that we have Soros-funded progressive Democrat DA's across the country who, instead of doing their jobs as prosecutors, are acting like they are public defenders or legislators changing the laws is evidence enough. These people are not interested in advocating for victims of crimes. They are advocating for the criminals. When Democrats start speaking up against these prosecutors and start taking a more reasonable approach to prosecuting violent crime, then we will reconsider what the Democrats stand for IRT crime and punishment. That has not happened.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again, the question was where is there polling or documentation of a national DNC agenda to ignore gun crime?
Here is my issue.....
I don't doubt that there are Democrats who are opposed to the lax measures being taken by these progressive prosecutors. I am sure there are moderates out there that think the inclination to go easy on these repeat violent offenders is not good for society.
The problem is that there are no prominent Democrats, in these DA's districts, or any other district, speaking up AGAINST the policies that put these violent criminals back on the street. There is no outcry from the left. As they say, silence is complicity.
Did any of these DA's specifically run on a platform of being lax on gun crime? Can anyone show that they did? Or was there a bait-and-switch?
What is funny is how desperate you are to distance your party from its policies. You know enough to know these policies are radioactive to the general public, and you know darn well which party is pushing these policies.
What's funny is that for all of your handwaving you still haven't actually shown any specific evidence showing the party as a whole is specifically advocating for going weak on gun crimes. You say they are "pushing" it so show me a memo, a statement, ANYTHING to prove it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Again, the question was where is there polling or documentation of a national DNC agenda to ignore gun crime?
Here is my issue.....
I don't doubt that there are Democrats who are opposed to the lax measures being taken by these progressive prosecutors. I am sure there are moderates out there that think the inclination to go easy on these repeat violent offenders is not good for society.
The problem is that there are no prominent Democrats, in these DA's districts, or any other district, speaking up AGAINST the policies that put these violent criminals back on the street. There is no outcry from the left. As they say, silence is complicity.
Did any of these DA's specifically run on a platform of being lax on gun crime? Can anyone show that they did? Or was there a bait-and-switch?
What is funny is how desperate you are to distance your party from its policies. You know enough to know these policies are radioactive to the general public, and you know darn well which party is pushing these policies.
Anonymous wrote:It’s laughable that these DA’s just pivot to intervention and prevention rhetoric, which has literally nothing to do with the jobs they were elected to fill.