DA George Gascón’s latest attempt to turn LA County into a scene from a dystopian movie
LA County’s DA George Gascón is going to be “downsizing” and “renaming” the Hardcore Gangs Unit of the office he heads, and the reason for his deicision is certainly not that there are fewer hardcore gang members in the LA area or that the gangs there have gotten less violent [emphasis mine]:
The Hardcore Gangs unit is one of the oldest units in the office and it’s responsible for prosecuting the most heinous and complex gang-related crimes in the country. In Melugin’s report from two weeks ago, prosecutors had said they feel they’ve already been hamstrung by Gascón’s decision to ban them from using gang and gun enhancements. With that in mind, prosecutors told Melugin earlier in the month that disbanding the Hardcore Gangs unit will be a disaster waiting to happen, given the surge in violent crimes across Los Angeles.
“We can already hear in jail calls and interviews with officers on the street telling us that the gang members are laughing at them, I mean it’s undermined the credibility of law enforcement in its entirety,” one of the prosecutors told FOX 11 earlier in the month.
Why wouldn’t the gang members laugh? They’re watching the DA destroy the police and prosecutors’ ability to fight gangs – for no logical reason except radical leftism plus his own hubris and perhaps animus towards the law-abiding people of LA as well. A lovely combination.
Eric Siddall, the vice president of the union representing the prosecutors in the LA County DA’s Office said Gascón’s decision isn’t a surprise.
“He made political promises to certain fringe groups and it’s payback, so yeah it makes sense in terms of that. Legally and in terms of public safety issue, no, it makes no sense,” Siddall said.
Gascón’s office never responded to FOX 11’s requests for comments on Wednesday. However, his supporters, like local Black Lives Matter activist Akili, agree with the DA’s decision.
Of course they do. They are most likely among the “certain fringe groups” to which the DA is beholden and with which he is simpatico.
More:
“We have called for the disbandment of that unit because we saw how it was abusive, how it was used to criminalize people in neighborhoods, and we saw that it was ineffective,” Akili said. “[Gascón] is simply doing what the people have been asking for, that’s why he was elected.”
“The people” – well, probably some people, such as gang members and radical leftists such as Akili. And don’t you love that word “criminalize”? That’s probably what the “renaming” is all about. Let’s not call them “hardcore gangs” because it hurts their feelings, you see, and if we call them “community affilliative social clubs for young people suffering from white oppression” that will make the whole situation better.
Also revealed on Wednesday is that the LA County DA Office’s Major Narcotics unit will also be downsized, possibly being cut by half.
Major narcotics – this isn’t petty stuff, we’re talking the hard stuff and plenty of it. Good move, Gascón.
More:
Following Wednesday’s news, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department issued the following statement:
“While gang members are busy driving up LA county’s homicide rate, DA Gascón is now dismantling the Hardcore Gang Unit that works in collaboration with local law enforcement. This can only serve to add gasoline to a raging fire of gang violence that threatens the safety of all. This is not reform, it’s beginning to look more and more like a suicide pact.”
Not suicide. Gascón will be fine. It’s a mass homicide, not a suicide.
This is the unit that prosecutes the most serious gang offenses, such as murder. “Black Lives Matter” indeed. There are 700 cases in progress right now. How many will be dropped or neglected as a result of Gascón’s latest decision?
The move comes after an increase in homicides and shootings in 2020 which the LAPD said was caused by gang feuds.
There were 349 killings last year, the first time the number surpassed 300 since 2009 and an increase of 38 per cent on the previous year.
I guess Gascón didn’t think the increases were high enough.
Lately the news has been so terrible that it’s hard to escape the feeling that we’re presently living in a madhouse.
[NOTE: I’ve written about Gascón and his background and philosophy before, in this post in particular. And here’s the status of the Gascón recall campaign. Meanwhile, we have stories like this.]
Per my post from a few days ago, people like Gascon don’t live with the consequences of their policies behind their gated guarded community. Like Tom Wolfe’s Radical Chic crowd that hung with the Black Panther’s they think they are part of the vanguard and then go home to their safe space.
The radical move would be to ban all gated and fenced communities and no personal guards including elected officials. You will see the narrative change.
But remember this. THEY VOTED FOR IT!!!!!
Kim Foxx (Cook County, in which the Democratic machine created Obama) was the first of the Soros-funded radical DAs to wreak havoc in our so-called system of criminal justice. In addition to the ghastly Gascon, this rogues’ gallery includes, among others, Kimberly Gardner (St. Louis), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia) and Chesa Boudin (SF), nor is it easy to determine which of these baleful enemies of truth and justice has been the most destructive. The elder Soros may soon be gone, but his malign legacy will continue with his children, who seem to possess the same ideological fanaticism.
The real target is the Bill of Rights. Make society so dysfunctional that people will beg for law and order, which these jackals will be only too happy to provide, but they can’t be restrained by that pesky Constitution thingie.
… prosecutors had said they feel they’ve already been hamstrung by Gascón’s decision to ban them from using gang and gun enhancements.
Do liberals really care about gun violence? If so, what’s the best way to reduce gun violence? How about stopping violent criminals who are found to be in illegal possession of guns. Oh no, can’t do that. Let’s add another dozen gun control laws to the books instead. Hypocrites.
“Make society so dysfunctional that people will beg for law and order, which these jackals will be only too happy to provide, but they can’t be restrained by that pesky Constitution thingie.”
If any Leftist thinks their side is going to be the one empowered by societal dysfunction, I’d like to meet them and let them know about this great real estate deal involving some prime Florida wetlands.
Always keep in mind, no one is going to applaud harder for The Man on the White Horse than the suburban Karens who just voted for Joe Biden.
Mike
Before moving to LA, Gascon was between Kamala Harris and now Chesa Boudin as the San Francisco District Attorney.
So: Harris, Gascon and Boudin — that’s quite a run of Sorry! cards for SF DA.
“Before moving to LA, Gascon was between Kamala Harris and now Chesa Boudin as the San Francisco District Attorney.” – huxley
Don’t Democrat voters ever look at the backgrounds of the people they are electing?
No sympathy for the LA majority (some for the other side, because everybody suffers when the idiots elect criminals).
I’m thinking of getting a Spartacus Bumper Sticker:
“Don’t like it? Quit voting for it!”
Except as we have learned, so many people don’t connect their votes with the consequences, and just keep on keepin’ on.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/to_understand_2021_watch_a_kgb_defectors_mid1980s_interview.html
Neo had a discussion on the people he describes earlier this week.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/why-new-facts-often-dont-matter-once-a-belief-system-has-been-established/
Long-time readers here have seen this interview before, or at least heard of it.
It should be required reading for all voters and elected officials.
Of course, some of them probably have it in the same box as “1984” – an instruction manual, not a warning.
“Lately the news has been so terrible that it’s hard to escape the feeling that we’re presently living in a madhouse.”
“Lately the news has been so terrible that it’s hard to escape the feeling that we’re presently living in a madhouse.”
Indeed it is, and I’ll take the occasion of that remark to say how important this blog and some other conservative sites have become for me. I’ve been feeling lately like the only sane person in that madhouse, and I think it can be very hard for that one person to stay that way when crazy is the norm. As someone said on Rod Dreher’s blog the other day, gaslighting can work if you don’t keep your guard up. So it really helps me to have contact with other people who seem to inhabit the same reality.
(Not that some of y’all aren’t on the fairly eccentric side as well. :-))
@Huxley Soros Cards too, perhaps.
“Not that some of y’all aren’t on the fairly eccentric side as well.” – Mac
I resemble that remark!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEM7I5VSVjY
Rufus, the hive mind doesn’t focus on intellectual fads and cults forever. There is some turning off and turning on….a cycle of some sort. E.g. how long did the eugenics fad last? Larger civic apocalypses may be the only way to distract the social brain. If ‘economic depression, unemployment and high food prices, along with a regressive tax system’ could cause a crisis that Louis XVI could not manage–despite coffee houses and reading clubs and Masonic lodges–how perfect are we mirroring this set of dilemmas today? Are we in a trap door with a one way function?
Among other radical leftists, Gascon is effectively enabling mass murder. Given the mind set of those who elected him, there is no practicable, legal remedy. It’s just a matter of time till one of his victim’s relatives or friends holds Gascon personally responsible… and takes the law into their own hands.
That is, the ancient law of an eye for an eye.
When societal justice is abandoned, only vigilante justice remains.
Radical leftists are courting a terrible reckoning.
While all this is disgusting in general, anyone who still lives in Cali gets what they deserve.
The writing was on the wall two decades ago, and written across the sky a decade ago.
If you didn’t Yet Get The Message: Cali Is Doomed.
The insanity there has long since shifted into maximum overdrive, straight towards the cliff. The only question is WHEN the break happens, not if.
If you do still live there, use your brain and GTFO. And I mean, like, abandon your freaking property, establish another place, and then sell whatever you have left there as quickly as possible.
Got a job there? Fuck it.
Got a home there? Fuck it.
Got family there? Tell them to GTFO, too.
Got friends there? Ok, stay there, you are clearly a hardcore leftist.
AesopFan: I’m definitely a black pot.
Like in the movie “Thief” the word that turns off the security is “Mexico.” Mexico is what Gascon is turning LA into. A world of a few elite uber-wealthy families ruling from on high while the 99% rest of the people live in fear of warlords and their gangs who control/corrupt everything and everyone as they constantly war against each other.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the tactic is to drive any remaining moderate DAs out of the system, just as the “Defund the Police” movement of last summer wasn’t really to abolish the police, but rather purge and politicize it. The new Secretary of Defense is doing the same thing with the US military. They want you to quit.
It’s my opinion they’ve actually used this strategy for years, beginning at least with the imposition of the PoMo in graduate schools in the mid 80’s and early 90’s.
So it’s very dangerous to take them at face value, and think they’re just deluded or crazy. As Orwell recognized, it’s “controlled insanity.”
Makes sense. Like Compton, the Illegal gangs drive off the violent Black gangsters and improve the “grift”. Cali had a lot of ghettos. Soon, the evicted Black “Bangers” will be coming to “affordable housing” (projects) near you. The “Beaner Bandittos” are “progress”. or “profit”. The Progs don’t want no data base or enforcement.
If you think, “stupid”, you just don’t understand the “plan”.
Enjoy your patio while you still can.