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. L.A. County voters would be wise to reject the nonsense and keep Gascón on the job and criminal justice reform in place. He is the only Los Angeles County district attorney in the last century, and perhaps ever, to step into the job after learning the ropes in a parallel post in another county. L.A. voters picked him because he correctly saw the self-defeating nature of a system that does not know when to stop punishing. Opinion Endorsement: George Gascón for L.A. County district attorney George Gascón is the right candidate at the right time to lead the largest local criminal justice jurisdiction in the United States.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 22, 2024 10:24 UTC