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LA DA Candidates Q&A, Part Two: Law Enforcement and the Death Penalty

January 29, 2024 7:12 amJanuary 31, 2024 7:22 am

This is part two of a continuing series of questions and answers with the candidates for Los Angeles District Attorney. When Mayor Karen Bass held a press conference to announce an inter-agency law enforcement task force to tackle the issue...

About Last Week… ‘Please tread on me’

January 29, 2024 2:37 amJanuary 29, 2024 2:38 am

“Please tread on me.” Maybe the legislature wouldn’t exactly approve that textual change to the state flag – though some legislators might vote for it, considering their private proclivities – but at least it would be honest. There are more...

LA DA Candidates Q&A Part One: Prop. 47 and the Concept of the Misdemeanor

January 28, 2024 2:30 amJanuary 28, 2024 2:31 am

As the Globe has done for a number of other important political races in the past, we asked each of the candidates for Los Angeles District Attorney if they wished to take part in a question and answer series on...

Is LA Voting with its Wallet?

January 26, 2024 7:12 am

George Gascon is the current Los Angeles District Attorney and he is running for re-election. Gascon has the least amount of campaign cash available now, six weeks before the March primary vote. In a field of ten main candidates that...

Gascon’s Parole Policies Putting Felons on the Street

January 3, 2024 2:30 amJanuary 3, 2024 2:31 am

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon is what is known as a decarcerationist. That means he wants as few people in jail as possible. The theory – birthed in academia – has gained steam of late amongst the progressive...

DA Gascon Tried to Side-Step California’s Three Strikes Law

December 13, 2023 6:47 amDecember 13, 2023 6:47 am

California’s “three strikes” law is widely popular and widely credited with cutting crime. It is also the bete noir of the progressive prosecutor and the “justice reform” movement, being blamed for excessive incarceration and arrest and sentencing racial disparities. The...

Judge Debra Archuleta, Candidate for Los Angeles DA

November 4, 2023 2:45 amNovember 22, 2023 10:49 am

Judge Debra Archuleta is confident – confident she was a good prosecutor, confident she is a good judge, confident she will make it out of the March primary, confident she will win next November, and confident she will be an...