"I am immediately ending the practice of charging kids as adults."
For too long "we were sold a false narrative that more police, locking more ppl up, makes us safer...."
New LA DA @GeorgeGascon starts the process of #CJReform in LA

New LA DA @GeorgeGascon announces that LA DA's office will no longer require victims to testify before they are helped and will extend support to families who lost a loved one as a victim of a police shooting.
"Anyone who loses a loved one is a survivor."

To "restore trust in equal justice" new LA DA @GeorgeGascon announces new use of force review board, to include community members, and to review cases dating back to 2012 and recommend cases in need of review by @LADAOffice

"Cash bail is as unsafe as it is unjust.... We will be the largest office in the nation to eliminate cash bail."
@GeorgeGascon will revisit ppl currently held in custody on bail and implement a new policy to revisit cash bail's use in LA
#EndCashBail

DA @GeorgeGascon to END sentencing enhancements and use of three strikes charging policies. These practices are "not a benefit to public safety. They are crowding our jails and prisons & exacerbating dangers from the COVID pandemic."

New sentencing and charging policies announced today in LA will be applied RETROACTIVELY - new DA @GeorgeGascon announces RESENTENCING review to look at past decades long sentences; could impact up to 1/5 of CA's prison population, as many as 20,000 cases

CA's death row has 215 ppl from LA County. @GeorgeGascon is "appalled that CA has become the nation's death capitol.... The death penalty doesn't make us safer, it is racist, morally untenable....Beginning today it is OFF THE TABLE IN LA County." See more: https://fairandjustprosecution.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FJP-Federal-Death-Penalty-Joint-Statement.pdf

"You can't cure mental illness, poverty or homelessness with a cage....We cannot continue to apply CJ solutions to public health issues."
LA DA @GeorgeGascon commits to end criminalizing of drug use, poverty & mental illness. This is smart, sensible & humane #HarmReduction

"Whether or not you live in LA ... I ask you to join me on this journey. We can break multigenerational cycles that have led America to incarcerate more than any other nation."
@LADAOffice @GeorgeGascon exemplifies in inaugural remarks the best of #21stCenturyProsecution

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