Dem DA facilitating crime in Los Angeles

 Washington Examiner:

The policies of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon are helping fuel a violent crime surge — as teenage felons roam the streets freely despite having committed crimes that once would've landed them behind bars, according to insiders.

For the few violent offenders who enter the crumbling Los Angeles County juvenile jail system, thousands more are still on the streets without having been charged for crimes that once would have resulted in automatic detention. Insiders told the Washington Examiner Gascon's anti-jail stance for juvenile offenders plays a significant role in the subsequent crime spike.

“Our prosecutorial approach should be biased towards keeping youth out of the juvenile justice system and when they must become involved, our system must employ the lightest touch necessary in order to provide public safety,” Gascon wrote in a special directive to prosecutors on Dec. 7, 2020.

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This has created an open season for mayhem by youthful criminals, law enforcement officials said.

“There is no accountability for any of these [serious] crimes. If you look at juvy crime across the board, it’s through the roof,” a Probation Department manager said. “Nothing happens to these kids if we catch them. You will be lucky if you even get [home] detention. They are in custody as long as it takes to book them.”

The only offenders who see the walls of Juvenile Hall are killers, rapists, and armed robbers, the manager said. This is exemplified by a California Department of Justice report that said the number of juveniles arrested for felonies last year statewide was 9,162, a decrease of 79% from a decade ago.

“You can walk around with a loaded firearm concealed illegally, and we can’t prosecute it. That is a misdemeanor,” said one of the attorneys within the District Attorney’s Office who is familiar with juvenile cases. “We used to be able to file a felony if there was a prior [conviction]. Now we can’t file anything.”

That is because Gascon has a written policy against filing certain charges, including the use of a gun committed in crimes, while many felonies have been downgraded to misdemeanors by state lawmakers.

Even minors charged with attempted murder may not be locked up. One teenager was sentenced to a group home, where he later committed murder, the manager said. It’s hard to blame police for the lack of arrests when they know charges will not be filed, the manager added.

“When the officers stop arresting and we stop prosecutions, they can say with a straight face: Prosecutions are down. We are doing [a] great job,” the prosecutor said.

To exemplify this, Gascon’s directive ordered prosecutors to stop charging juveniles with certain crimes if they endured trauma in childhood.
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Gascon's dereliction of duty is resulting in more crime.  California's Democrat policies are resulting in increased crime.  California residents are less safe as a result of these Democrat policies. 

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