In perhaps the least surprising election result of this election cycle, Democrat George Gascon On Tuesday he took a beating from his opponent, independent Nathan Hochman, in the race for Los Angeles County district attorney, losing between 62% and 38%.

The writing was on the wall for gasconas Los Angeles voters not only tried twice without success remember it but 74% of primary voters also voted for candidates other than Gascón in April.

It turns out that voters really want a safe county, free of violent crime. Voters rightly blamed Gascón for the tsunami of crime he unleashed through his pro-crime policies.

Hochman, a former Republican running against Gascon as an independent, prosecuted drug dealers, human traffickers and corrupt public officials as an assistant United States attorney. in california. He headed the Justice Department’s tax division in the final year of George W. Bush’s eight-year presidency.

gasconone of the highest-profile corrupt prosecutors whose campaigns got fundraising boosts from liberal financier George Soroshe stubbornly maintained that crime had decreased during his tenure at the helm of the nation’s largest district attorney’s office.

But that wasn’t true and everyone knew it. During last month’s only debate between Gascon and Hochman, moderators cited statistics on violent crime from the California Department of Justice and the Los Angeles Police Department for 2019 to 2023 that showed crime increased each year during Gascon’s tenure.

how we write hereYou know you’re in political trouble when, as a left-wing candidate, the media figures moderating a political debate essentially call you a liar.

Gascón’s loss was inevitable the moment he unveiled his sweeping pro-crime, anti-victim, cop-hating directives during his first week in office. It was only a matter of time.

The scope and breadth of Gascón’s policies were surprising. Each of them benefited the criminals and ignored or punished the victims. No civil society, not even one with ultraliberal values, could long tolerate the degradation of law and order that resulted from the district attorney’s policies.

Over the years, Gascon has been sued by dozens of his own prosecutors, including for creating a hostile work environment, for workplace retaliation, and for discriminationdefamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Gascón has lost almost all of those cases, costing Los Angeles County millions of dollars.

TO huge 97.2% of top prosecutors who are members of the Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorneys Association, voted in favor of Gascón’s removal in 2022.

The union, which consists of more than 900 prosecutors, also sued Gascón several times, including for allegedly violating the state’s public records law and for forcing prosecutors to violate state law by failing to collect enhancements or indictments in appropriate cases. . These lawsuits won at the trial court level and await a decision by the California Supreme Court.

Before Gascón’s policies disappear into a memory hole, we thought it would be useful to list some of his craziest directives, which we wrote about herediscussed in our book “Dishonest prosecutors”, and discussed at length here in The Heritage Foundation’s crime documentary.

Gascón Directives, applicable to the more than 900 prosecutors in his office:

• It prohibited prosecutors from charging 13 specific misdemeanors and gave them discretion to decline to prosecute hundreds of other recorded misdemeanors.
• It prohibited prosecutors from seeking cash bail for any misdemeanor, non-serious felony or non-violent crime, regardless of the defendant’s criminal history. To make matters worse, prosecutors could not oppose a defense attorney’s motion to remove or modify a defendant’s conditions of release; Prosecutors also could not oppose a defense attorney’s request that a judge not issue an arrest warrant against a defendant for failing to appear.
• It prohibited prosecutors from presenting sentencing enhancements or pleas, regardless of the underlying facts in a case. The California Legislature approved dozens of sentencing enhancements to be used when an offender commits a crime against specific classes of people, such as children, women, the elderly and others, and when there are aggravating circumstances, such as using a firearm or being a repeat offender. . .
• It prohibited prosecutors from charging violent youths as adults, regardless of the crime, including murder and child rape.
• He established a unit in the District Attorney’s Office to pursue cases of “injustice” and “racial injustice” in convictions the office obtained over decades.
• He prohibited prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in any case.
• He established a unit called the Conviction Integrity Unit to work “independently” to reverse and dissolve the office’s convictions over decades in cases where the “interests of justice” require review and reversal.
• It established a resentencing unit that requires prosecutors to “reevaluate and consider resentencing individuals who have already served 15 years in prison.” This applied to murderers, rapists of children and adults, gang members, and anyone convicted by the office and sentenced to life in prison without parole, life in prison, or a determinate sentence of decades. The directive also required prosecutors to “join the defendant’s motion to vacate all purported sentencing enhancements” for the pending cases.
• He prohibited prosecutors from attending parole hearings.
• It required prosecutors “to support in writing” a convict’s request to be granted parole if he or she “has already served his or her mandatory minimum period of incarceration.”

Gascón’s political demise is the natural and likely consequence of his policies, which are emblematic of the broader movement of corrupt prosecutors backed by Soros, the liberal financier. This movement remains the worst social experiment in recent decades. It is an avoidable social pandemic.

Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami, an outspoken and fearless critic of Gascon, provided us with the following statement:

“George Gascon’s four-year reign is finally over. He will go down in history as the worst district attorney in the history of Los Angeles County. It’s time to get back to what a real district attorney is supposed to do: follow the law, support victims, prioritize public safety, and prosecute crimes. “I am willing to work with Nathan Hochman to do just that.”

Hatami appeared at a crime symposium sponsored by the Heritage Foundation in Los Angeles, as shown herealong with Deputy District Attorney Eric Siddal and former Deputy District Attorney Kathleen Cady.

Gascón joins a long list of dishonest rejects, including Chesa Boudin, marilyn mosby, Raquel Rollinsand Kim Gardnerwho were impeached, lost their elections or resigned in disgrace. kim foxx Chicago’s first elected rogue prosecutor funded by Soros, decided not to run again when Chicago’s rising crime rates became a political liability for Democrats, who held their national convention in her city in August.

Of the eight most notorious Soros-funded corrupt prosecutors in our book, only Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner and Alvin Bragg of New York remain in office.

The other six have been defeated. Krasner and Bragg won’t be far behind if voters in their cities also hold them responsible for rising crime rates as a result of their ill-conceived policies.