To the editor: With the very best regard for the Los Angeles Occasions as an organization and the purveyor of info relating to myriad points and neighborhood considerations, I strongly and emphatically disagree with the editorial board’s determination to endorse L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón for reelection.
An important factor that may be completed about this local weather of lawlessness and thievery is to vary the district legal professional to somebody who’s seen as a no-nonsense, tough-on-crime prosecutor who will implement the regulation and defend each life and property.
Notion is actual, and it impacts conduct. I personally have seen how those that commit crimes have turn into extra brazen in L.A. County. Criminals aptly understand that there will likely be little to no consequence for his or her actions below our present district legal professional.
Nathan Hochman, who’s operating towards Gascón, will change that notion and finish this sense of lawlessness in a good and efficient method.
Jules Bagneris III, Los Angeles
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To the editor: In 2018, I attended a Democratic Celebration occasion in Pasadena, and Alex Villanueva requested us, “Isn’t it time to elect a Democrat to be the sheriff of L.A. County”? He then went on to inform us he was a real progressive.
Very shortly into his tenure he proved to be something however progressive and was ousted in his subsequent election.
In 2020, Gascón promised to make liberal adjustments to how the district legal professional’s workplace prosecutes circumstances. Upon taking workplace, he quickly instituted these adjustments
Now, 4 years later, polls present he’ll in all probability be ousted not for breaking his marketing campaign guarantees, however somewhat for maintaining them. You need to love the irony.
Ron Garber, Duarte
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To the editor: The pendulum has swung too far. As a neighborhood public official and elected mayor by the residents of Whittier, I do know that the primary duty to the folks we serve is sustaining their security.
And there’s concern within the minds of the folks of Whittier and Los Angeles County.
Nobody needs to return to the period of “lock ‘em up and throw away the keys.” However the Gascón social experiment of selecting which legal guidelines to implement has failed. His experiment has harmed folks, and it’s time for the pendulum to swing again towards the center.
Electing Hochman, who will absolutely implement the regulation, is the one solution to swing it again.
Joe Vinatieri, Whittier
The author is mayor of Whittier.
