Gascon is butchering the criminal justice system by acting as a defense attorney
Zachary Faria
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The thing you need to understand about district attorneys such as Los Angeles’s George Gascon is that they are not really prosecutors. They are defense attorneys using the district attorney’s office to help criminals be set free.
Gascon has offered his clearest reminder yet that this is the case with his decision to promote Tiffany Blacknell to his chief of staff. Blacknell is a prison abolitionist and hates police officers, calling them “barbarians” and “an occupying army.” In 2020, Blacknell tried to help a gang member get just seven years in prison for killing a man whom he mistakenly thought was a member of a rival gang. She is also pro-looting and boasted of taking part in looting during the 1992 Rodney King riots.
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Again, Blacknell cheered looting during the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020 and does not believe prisons should exist at all. Now she is the chief of staff for an office that oversees prosecutions for a county of more than 9 million people.
But this is par for the course for Gascon’s office. His long list of pro-criminal decisions includes light sentences (or no prosecutions) for sex criminals, convicted felons, illegal immigrants who commit any crime, and criminals who have attempted to kill others. Gascon has left the families of victims in the dark about when criminals who wronged them are up for parole in order to prevent those families from testifying against it. Every policy decision he makes in his position is one that helps criminals get out faster or avoid prison entirely. His decision to promote someone such as Blacknell is perhaps the least surprising thing he has done in office at this point.
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There is nothing wrong with being a defense attorney. It is an admirable and necessary part of the criminal justice system. But “criminal justice reform” activists have warped this system by running to become district attorneys, using their position to support criminals while those criminals’ attorneys do the same. What’s left is a system that has no place for the victims of criminals, nor for the law-abiding citizens who are put in danger when violent, unrepentant criminals are released back onto the street.
That is the system Gascon has created because he has no interest in prosecuting criminals. He and Blacknell use their positions to make their pro-criminal sympathies become realities. It is great news for people who have no regard for the law or the lives or safety of their fellow Los Angeles residents — and terrible news for everyone else.