🚨 Los Angeles DA Jackie Lacey just conceded to progressive challenger George Gascón.

Gascón, who was SF DA, ran on reducing incarceration & bringing the national reform movement to this county of 10 million.

And major activist energy around the office. https://theappeal.org/george-gascon-wins-los-angeles-county-district-attorney/
George Gascón Wins Race for Los Angeles D.A. in Major Victory for Progressive Prosecutor Movement

Los Angeles County, with the country’s largest jail system and largest local prosecutor office, is considered a crown jewel in a nationwide push for criminal justice reform.

https://theappeal.org/george-gascon-wins-los-angeles-county-district-attorney/
I interviewed Gascon in January about his policy views in a Q&A.

He made his case for why some behaviors should not be criminally prosecuted, for avoiding very lengthy sentences, for not using gang enhancements, and more. https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/how-george-gascon-wants-reform-los-angeles-district-attorney-election/
How George Gascón Wants to Reform Los Angeles and Achieve “the Lowest Level of Intervention”

“The problem is that LA County has come to a place where they use the most expensive and the most intrusive tools of the criminal justice system to deal with every behavior," Gascón said in a Q&A.

https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/how-george-gascon-wants-reform-los-angeles-district-attorney-election/
Gascon told me then: "The problem is that LA County has come to a place where they use the most expensive and the most intrusive tools of the criminal justice system to deal with every behavior, & that is prosecution & incarceration."

He stressed LA incarceration 4 times SF's.
There are significant questions around Gascon's record on policing.

Read @eli_kamisher laying it out: https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/los-angeles-district-attorney-election-lacey-gascon/

Gascon has replied by pointing his push for strengthening state law. (In fact, for a stronger version than what Dems ended up passing in legislature.)
Police unions donated huge sums of money to Jackie Lacey's re-election bid, and police/prison guard unions attacked Gascon throughout the campaign. https://theappeal.org/california-prison-guard-union-jackie-lacey-campaign-donation/

And Lacey's allies framed her re-election as a referendum against BLM. https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/los-angeles-district-attorney-election-lacey-gascon/

They lost.
And here's how Los Angeles activists were viewing the result during the campaing: irrespective of who wins, they'll continue pressuring & protesting to transform the county.

“We’re not going to let them just sit there."

https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/los-angeles-district-attorney-election-lacey-gascon/
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