Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey received the endorsement of San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Dennis Herrera, the city attorney. It's a rebuke of former S.F. D.A. George Gascon and his style of criminal justice reform.
San Francisco’s mayor and city attorney waded Thursday into the competitive Los Angeles County district attorney’s race, publicly backing incumbent Jackie Lacey over their city’s former district attorney, George Gascón.
Yet after Breed was elected mayor in 2018, she blamed Gascón and his posture of reform for the rash of car break-ins and other street problems that have dogged San Francisco, even as the city experienced a sharp drop in violent crime. While naming an interim prosecutor to take over after Gascón stepped down to run in L.A.
. Gascón’s office reviewed the file but identified no irregularities that warranted reopening the case, the newspaper reported.D.A. Gascón to get her brother out of a 44-year prison sentence, and when he declined the relationship went downhill,” said Jamarah Hayner, a spokeswoman for Gascón’s campaign. “With D.A. Lacey consistently declining to take on corruption or the powerful, this endorsement could not be more fitting.
Gascón, meanwhile, announced his candidacy in October with a boost from former LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. Gascón is a former LAPD assistant chief and was raised in Southern California.“Taking on the status quo and reforming our most important institutions requires leadership, strength and a commitment to doing the right thing, even when it comes at great personal cost,” Beck said. “Those are qualities that define George.
A primary election in March 2020 will result in a runoff with the two top-performing candidates. However, if one of the candidates receives more than 50% of the votes in the primary, he or she wins the race outright.ACLU report issued this year identified
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