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Why California Voters Rejected Criminal Justice Reform

LOADING ERROR LOADING In the past decade, California’s incarceration rate has dropped about 30%. “The other side co-opted reform messaging,” said Anne Irwin, the director of Smart Justice California, a progressive criminal justice reform group. “Those are an anomaly, they happen, they are part of the public consciousness, but going forward those aren’t necessarily the people who are going to …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a trans drug lord. It … rips?

Slate

From the first frames of Emilia Pérez, writer-director Jacques Audiard makes it clear this is going to be a musical. The story, part crime caper, part domestic melodrama, part meditation on the mystery of selfhood, will involve suspense, disguised identity, the search for redemption, tragic hubris—a full complement of themes from genres as divergent as film noir and the kind …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

California voters turn away from progressive criminal justice policies

China Daily

By RENA LI in Los Angeles | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-11-08 12:14 In a rebuke of progressive criminal justice policies, California voters on Tuesday rejected a lenient approach by some elected officials and also approved an anti-crime ballot question. From Los Angeles to Oakland, election results showed that Californians are prioritizing public safety, in a shift toward more traditional approaches …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: California doesn’t have to choose between public safety and criminal justice reform

LA Times

California voters decided this week to roll back criminal justice reforms and appeared to be ousting progressive prosecutors in Los Angeles and Alameda counties, effectively reversing decisions they made as recently as 2020 and 2022. While the approval of Proposition 36 and the loss of two reform-minded district attorneys are setbacks, a broader outlook suggests public opinion still favors a …

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Tide shifts against criminal justice reform among California voters

LA Times

The 2024 election results in California include the passage of a tough-on-crime ballot measure, along with confirmed or likely defeats for two progressive district attorneys and an initiative to give prisoners more labor rights. Dan Schnur, a former advisor to Republican politicians in California who teaches political communications at USC, said that since the last election, “the culture in both …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Challenger Emerges in Los Angeles District Attorney Race, Reflecting Discontent with Criminal Justice Reform

Associated Press

A tough-on-crime challenger, Nathan Hochman, has emerged in the Los Angeles District Attorney race. Hochman, a former federal prosecutor, criticizes Gascón's policies and argues that they have gone too far. He has raised more than $4 million compared to Gascón's less than $1 million. The election is scheduled for November 5, 2024.

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Not even close’: Hochman’s lead over Gascón grows to 30% in new D.A.’s race poll

LA Times

With less than a month remaining before the Nov. 5 election, challenger Nathan Hochman is 30 percentage points ahead of incumbent Los Angeles County Dist. Of those who support Hochman, past president of the L.A. City Ethics Commission and assistant U.S. attorney general, 66% said an “extremely important” factor was the need to “reduce turmoil and bring needed change to …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Californians' crime concerns put pressure on criminal justice reform and progressive DAs

The Independent

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Californians’ crime concerns put pressure on criminal justice reform and progressive DAs

Associated Press

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. LOS ANGELES — Ten years ago, Alley Bean joined 3.7 million Californians in voting for a measure that downgraded many nonviolent felony crimes to misdemeanors, such as petty shoplifting and drug use, hoping it would lead to a more equitable criminal justice system and help end mass incarceration. “I thought …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Your guide to the L.A. County district attorney’s race: Gascón vs. Hochman

LA Times

On Nov. 5, voters have a chance to help decide the future of criminal justice in Los Angeles County. The race for district attorney is a clash between the competing visions of the incumbent, polarizing progressive George Gascón, and his challenger, Nathan Hochman, an independent who previously ran for state office as a Republican. Gascón took office four years ago …

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4 months ago

Poll shows Hochman has momentum to unseat L.A. County Dist. Atty. Gascón

LA Times

In a poll, about 45% of likely voters said they would choose attorney Nathan Hochman, right, over L.A. County Dist. Fifty-seven percent of the 1,136 likely L.A. County voters surveyed said they had “no opinion” on him, versus 34% for Gascón. Just one-tenth of voters surveyed in the new Berkeley IGS poll said Gascón would do a better job addressing …

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4 months ago

D.A. Gascón to announce charges Monday in killing of actor Johnny Wactor

LA Times

Actor Johnny Wactor was fatally shot May 25 in downtown Los Angeles after interrupting gang members who were trying to steal his car’s catalytic converter, police say. George Gascón will announce criminal charges Monday in the slaying of “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor, who was killed in May by men suspected of trying to steal the catalytic converter from his …

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6 months ago

When prosecutor is defendant: L.A. D.A. George Gascón’s legal battles with his own staff

LA Times

He was elected to be Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor, but George Gascón has spent a considerable amount of his first term as a defendant. Many of the suits allege prosecutors were punished for refusing to implement policies they considered “illegal,” including Gascón’s edicts stopping prosecutors from seeking the death penalty or life without parole in murder cases, filing certain …

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7 months ago

Why progressive DAs are losing their grip on the West Coast

Politico

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Progressive Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón advances to runoff

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — One of the country’s most progressive prosecutors, George Gascón, has advanced to a runoff in his reelection bid for Los Angeles County’s district attorney, surviving a primary race that pit him against 11 challengers. Gascón will compete in November against the second highest vote-getter from Tuesday’s primary in the race to lead an agency that prosecutes cases …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: What L.A. County voters need to hear from D.A. George Gascón before November

LA Times

To put the best face on Dist. To avoid following in Villanueva’s footsteps, Gascón has to do a better job articulating his progress in making his office more reflective of what Los Angeles voters wanted when they first elected him — a more just and equitable criminal justice system. Opinion Editorial: Gascon’s reform vision comes to the Supreme Court Just …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Will Gascón advance? Will Measure HLA pass? A quick look at the top L.A. County races

LA Times

A referendum on a more rehabilitative, less punitive approach to criminal justice got its latest test Tuesday in Los Angeles County, as progressive Dist. Tuesday’s election also put nearly half the seats on the City Council and the majority of the five-member county Board of Supervisors before voters, along with the question of who will replace two venerable L.A. school …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Long before he took on Trump, Adam Schiff’s pursuit of tough justice defined his career

LA Times

When Rep. Adam B. Schiff stood before the U.S. Senate on the final day of President Trump’s first impeachment trial, he reprised a familiar role: prosecutor. In a not-too-subtle jab at Trump, Schiff said he also learned the ways of Russian tradecraft, including “how they target people who are of poor moral character, who are philanderers, who are obsessed with …

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11 months ago

Endorsement: Reelect George Gascón as Los Angeles County district attorney

LA Times

George Gascón was elected Los Angeles County district attorney in 2020, a convulsive year in which Americans’ lives were upended by the pandemic and public confidence in the criminal justice system was shaken by the murder of George Floyd. He is the only Los Angeles County district attorney in the last century, and perhaps ever, to step into the job …

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1 year, 3 months ago

‘We’re hurting’: Murder charge announced in deputy’s slaying as fiancée, family grieve

LA Times

Brittany Lindsey is comforted by L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna during a news conference Wednesday to announce charges in the slaying of Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer. “Ryan was the best guy I’ve ever met,” Lindsey said at a joint news conference Wednesday with Los Angeles County Dist. It was not long enough.” Lindsey’s and Clinkunbroomer’s families joined the district attorney …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Extensive staffing crisis at L.A. County courts puts vulnerable defendants in dire straits

LA Times

Exterior of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles, where staffing of prosecutors, public defenders, court reporters and interpreters have all fallen since the peak of the pandemic. Hundreds of public defenders, prosecutors, court interpreters and reporters have left their jobs since the peak of the pandemic, a Los Angeles legal chapter of the “Great Resignation” …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Criminal charges filed against Watts metal recycler and its owners

LA Times

An aerial view of Atlas Iron & Metal Co., a metal recycler that operates next door to Jordan High School, in Watts. At a Wednesday news conference at Jordan High School, Gascón said his prosecutors have charged Atlas, along with father-and-son owners Gary and Matthew Weisenberg, with 22 felonies and two misdemeanors. The Los Angeles Unified School District also filed …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Los Angeles city councilman charged with 10 counts, including embezzlement and perjury

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors charged a Los Angeles city councilman with 10 counts, including embezzlement and perjury, Tuesday in the latest criminal case to upend the scandal-plagued governing board of the nation’s second-largest city. Curren Price Jr. faces five counts of embezzlement of government funds, three counts of perjury and two counts of conflict of interest, according to the Los …

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1 year, 8 months ago

A California lawyer cashed in on criminal justice reform by fanning the hopes of inmates’ families

LA Times

When California enacted landmark criminal justice reforms several years ago, inmates and their families saw a chance at freedom. “He said he was the top attorney.” Whatever its basis, Spolin’s promotional material impressed people like Amanda Allen, whose then-husband, Johnte, was serving life without parole for a 2006 murder in Bakersfield. Spolin, he said, remarked that the pay was “at …

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Why California Voters Rejected Criminal Justice Reform

Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a trans drug lord. It … rips?

California voters turn away from progressive criminal justice policies

Editorial: California doesn’t have to choose between public safety and criminal justice reform

Tide shifts against criminal justice reform among California voters

Challenger Emerges in Los Angeles District Attorney Race, Reflecting Discontent with Criminal Justice Reform

‘Not even close’: Hochman’s lead over Gascón grows to 30% in new D.A.’s race poll

Californians' crime concerns put pressure on criminal justice reform and progressive DAs

Californians’ crime concerns put pressure on criminal justice reform and progressive DAs

Your guide to the L.A. County district attorney’s race: Gascón vs. Hochman

Poll shows Hochman has momentum to unseat L.A. County Dist. Atty. Gascón

D.A. Gascón to announce charges Monday in killing of actor Johnny Wactor

When prosecutor is defendant: L.A. D.A. George Gascón’s legal battles with his own staff

Why progressive DAs are losing their grip on the West Coast

Progressive Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón advances to runoff

Editorial: What L.A. County voters need to hear from D.A. George Gascón before November

Will Gascón advance? Will Measure HLA pass? A quick look at the top L.A. County races

Long before he took on Trump, Adam Schiff’s pursuit of tough justice defined his career

Endorsement: Reelect George Gascón as Los Angeles County district attorney

‘We’re hurting’: Murder charge announced in deputy’s slaying as fiancée, family grieve

Extensive staffing crisis at L.A. County courts puts vulnerable defendants in dire straits

Criminal charges filed against Watts metal recycler and its owners

Los Angeles city councilman charged with 10 counts, including embezzlement and perjury

A California lawyer cashed in on criminal justice reform by fanning the hopes of inmates’ families