Street Justice: Los Angeles Has Become Wild West Under Soft-on-Crime Prosecutor

Teenager who hit mother and baby with car was killed after completing light sentence mandated by George Gascón Los Angeles district attorney George Gascón (D.) / Getty Images

The latest murder victim in Los Angeles is one of the criminals let off easy by radical prosecutor George Gascón.

Los Angeles teenager, who had just completed his diversionary program and hit a mother-and-baby with his car, was killed and shot in a tragic turn of events.

Kristopher Baca pleaded guilty to the June 2022 murder of Kristopher Baca while she was walking her baby in a stroller in August 2021. The mother was found dead in Palmdale, Calif. on Friday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The mother, who was a nurse and mother to her child, was killed in the attack. says she voted for Gascón but later left Los Angeles over his “soft-on-crime” approach, told Fox 11 is the “universe delivered the justice we weren’t given in court, but a much harsher punishment than he’d have been dealt in a court of law.”

This sequence shows how crime can multiply in many places.reform-minded” Prosecutors’ Districts are the ones that pursue lesser sentences and alternative incarceration to keep dangerous offenders out on the streets. Los Angeles’ murder rate hit a 15-year record in 2021.

Gascón is one of several so-called progressive prosecutors boosted into office by liberal billionaire George Soros. Gascon was elected to reduce inequality. “mass incarceration,” The embattled district Attorney has been facing two recall elections for his policies.

After winning office, Gascón announced he would no longer try juvenile criminals as adults, but was forced to reverse course in 2022 after facing backlash. Soros donated $2 million to Gascón’s 2020 campaign.

Gascón’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Gascón’s office told Fox News June 2022, a five- to seven-month sentence at a “youth camp” This was an “appropriate resolution” Baca’s Case “Fortunately, the baby was uninjured, and the mother received a laceration to her elbow,” The office stated. Baca had also admitted that he had been convicted of a prior felony in 2019. poisoning A girl from his high school was later admitted to hospital.

Prosecutors in Gascón’s office described the youth diversion camp as “less than a military school and a little bit tougher than a summer camp.” They