Soft-on-crime DA Gascón says he’s ‘not sure’ LA Country is ‘less or more safe’ since he took office

(Video: NBC News)

Corporate media continued to carry water for the progressive party Friday as NBC’s Lester Holt painted Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón as a victim despite his apparent admission in one critical metric.

The DA was featured in an interview for “NBC Nightly News” where Holt seemed to mount a defense for soft-on-crime policies by blaming his industry for sensationalizing the “‘growing sense of unease” and causing a “shift in the public’s perception” of the state of decay that Los Angeles was falling into. After airing clips of the out-of-control violence, Holt cut to a clip of his interview with Gascón where the host teed him up with the question, “Is Los Angeles County any less or more safe since you took office?”

No matter the applied spin, there are certain realities that can’t be ignored. That didn’t stop Gascón from hedging on his response to the obvious. “It’s a complicated question, right? I’m not sure,” he claimed.

He then proceeded to qualify that by arguing, “We’re safer than we were 20, 30 years ago. If you’re looking at what has occurred maybe in the last three or four years, then it’s a higher level of insecurity today.”

Holt expanded on the policies that the DA ran on, like ending cash bail and eliminating sentencing enhancements, as detached from the continued “rise in violent crime which began before Gascón took office” as though they had nothing to do with homicides increasing to a 15-year high under his watch.

Gascón is facing a second recall effort after an initial attempt failed in 2021 and, with San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin getting booted by voters similarly fed up with the revolving door that returned offenders back to the streets, Holt continued to make the case that it was unfair to equate progressive prosecutors with rises in crime.

 

“Some of the more conservative counties here in California have higher per capita violence than we do,” Gascón said on the matter without providing any actual data to back his claim, “but you never see anybody blaming those prosecutors for the increase in violence.”

Holt then went on to contend that “many criminal justice experts [say] it’s difficult to draw direct connections to Gascón’s policies” as he pointed to a nationwide violent crime problem. He left out the detail that the hubs for the rising criminality continue to be the major cities run by like-minded Democratic politicians like New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia.

“There’s a lot of perception that things are getting worse,” Holt stated returning to his spin that the problem of crime was not founded in the facts. “If they don’t get better, is that all going to come — be laid at the feet of progressives and criminal justice reform efforts?”

Gascón concluded by playing the part of a victim to the genuine concerns of the voters, “I’m very fearful that that is happening already.”

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7 thoughts on “Soft-on-crime DA Gascón says he’s ‘not sure’ LA Country is ‘less or more safe’ since he took office

  1. Let’s see. We have the 2nd Amendment, the Right to Bear Arms. So why does this man have to plead guilty? Should he not be protected by the Constitution. Oh, wait. That was when we had a gubment responsible to the citizens and not Peloser, Schitt, Nadler, AOC. The list is 534 names long (sans Rand Paul).

  2. But then, Gascón probably cannot define what a “woman” is either…ya-think…?!?!?

  3. Isn’t his job to know about crime in his city? And on what data can he claim we are safer in LA than we were 30 years ago?

  4. Too bad those two murdered police officers, murdered by a convict who should have been in jail, but for Gascon, don’t have any reflection on his conscience. What a piece of excrement.

  5. Well, Gascon, your opinion doesn’t matter. The opinions of the Angelinos you were supposed to be serving do matter. You’re looking at the wrong side of the door, Gascon. Step through it and don’t let it hit you in the ass when you go out.

  6. Gascon has faith that the msm will carry his water, no matter how many lives he has ruined by not doing his job properly. Who is more evil, him, or, the msm?

  7. Nothing spells not doing your job like having no idea what’s happening in regard to those areas you are supposed to be in charge of, but then that’s a democrat for you. They want to run. They want to win. They want the money. They just don’t want to do anything after achieving the the first 3 items.

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