Leftist DA Makes It ‘Profitable To Do Crime In Los Angeles County,’

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The policies of Los Angeles ‘leading district attorney have actually produced an environment ripe for criminal activity, Los Angeles County Constable Alex Villanueva states.

“It’s profitable to do crime in Los Angeles County,” Villanueva, a Democrat, stated throughout a Heritage Structure event April 7th in downtown LA calling out District Attorney George Gascon.

“We’re having people [from] out of county, out of state, coming here to LA to do home invasion robberies, burglaries,” the sheriff said, adding that “foreign nationals [are] coming here to do burglaries.”

Criminal activity in the city is at a point that the Los Angeles Police Department is informing individuals not to wear costly fashion or jewelry, Villanueva, who was first elected as Sheriff in 2018, specified.

On his very first day in office Dec. 7, 2020, Gascon revealed a substantial overhaul to Los Angeles County’s prosecution policies.

His experience as a policeman years formerly taught him that the “criminal justice system is fundamentally broken,” Gascon wrote on Twitter, consisting of a long list of the modifications he was making.

 

“So today we will end cash bail for any misdemeanor, non-serious, or non-violent felony offense,” Gascon wrote.

Gascon revealed that he was ending “enhancements,” which are elements such as gang involvement or previous offenses that enable harsher sentencing by judges.

The new DA took the capital punishment off the table as a suggestion, calling it “racist,” and specified no juvenile would be attempted as an adult.

On his first day in office, Gascon supplied a memo listing 13 criminal activities that the District Attorney’s Office no longer would prosecute, consisting of driving without a license, drug possession, loitering to commit prostitution, resisting arrest, and trespassing.

The results of such changes are “creating a dystopian society as we speak,” Villanueva said at the Heritage event.

Violent crime in Los Angeles is up over 11% since the date of  Gascon’s election, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Grand theft vehicle is “up 60% in 2 years,” the sheriff stated, keeping in mind someone was  “arrested three times in one day for grand theft auto.”

“There were no consequences,” Villanueva said of that case.

Criminal Offense in Los Angeles mainly had really been trending down considered that 1993, according to the Los Angeles Almanac. In 2015, violent criminal activity started to increase list below passage of California’s Proposal 47 the year prior.

Prop 47, which Gascon co-sponsored, reduced the penalties of lots of criminal activities and made some felonies into misdemeanor offenses. The limitation for misdemeanor theft went from $400 worth of products as much as $950.

“That’s why [in California] you can walk in the Nordstrom, grab an entire rack, and walk out with it, and it doesn’t go anywhere,” Villanueva said.

Villanueva, 59, specified Gascon’s adjustments to prosecution policies in Los Angeles are being driven by a belief that the criminal justice system is racist. When you look at “the hard facts on the ground,” he said, “my county jail is filled up by violence, not systemic racism.”

Gascon met with leaders of Black Lives Matter after his election as district attorney, Villanueva mentioned, however, didn’t even call the sheriff.

Heritage Structure legal fellows Cully Stimson and Zack Smith, who spoke at the occasion, are composing a book on progressive, or “rogue,” district attorneys.

Stimson states the rogue prosecutor movement was impacted significantly by Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors in addition to political activist Angela Davis, who welcomed communism and the LA chapter of the Black Panther Celebration in the 1970s and 1960s.

Both women have actually promoted a world without jails.

Villanueva specified he does not see the bigotry that BLM declares in the Los Angeles County Constable’s Department, consisting of that about 74% of his labor force is minority.

No matter Gascon’s adjustments going easy on culprits, the constable mentioned, he is positive that the public is beginning to see the rubbish and threat of the extreme movement versus police.

H/T The Daily Signal

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