{"id":1528713,"date":"2022-06-25T23:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528713"},"modified":"2022-06-25T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:49:16","slug":"george-gascon-claims-l-a-county-is-safer-in-some-areas-because-of-his-policies-despite-rise-in-violent-crime-over-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-gascon-claims-l-a-county-is-safer-in-some-areas-because-of-his-policies-despite-rise-in-violent-crime-over-past-year\/","title":{"rendered":"George Gasc\u00f3n Claims L.A. County Is Safer \u2018In Some Areas\u2019 Because Of His Policies Despite Rise In Violent Crime Over Past Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-gascon-claims-l-a-county-is-safer-in-some-areas-because-of-his-policies-despite-rise-in-violent-crime-over-past-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528713&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Los Angeles County District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/george-gascon\">George Gasc\u00f3n<\/a> joined local station KTLA 5 Saturday morning to defend his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/recall-this-piece-of-garbage-soft-on-crime-los-angeles-da-gascon-slammed-after-thug-on-probation-kills-two-cops\">record<\/a> as he faces a potential recall.<\/p>\n<p>Gasc\u00f3n was <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/l-a-county-da-gascon-responds-to-soft-on-crime-criticism\/\">asked<\/a> by news anchors Lynette Romero and Mark Meester to respond to those criticizing him as a \u201csoft-on-crime\u201d DA as L.A. has seen an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/six-cities-pace-pass-violent-crime-2022\">8.6% rise<\/a> in violent crime over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on if he believed L.A. county was safer because of what he had done, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/george-gascon\">Gasc\u00f3n<\/a> responded, \u201cYeah, in some areas it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important to start out by saying that I was a police officer for many years before I was the district attorney. I know how to keep communities safe,\u201d Gasc\u00f3n added.<\/p>\n<p>The DA went on to blame the COVID pandemic for the crime and homelessness problems facing L.A., and said crime rates were increasing in cities across the country, not just in L.A.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re coming out of the pandemic that has had a tremendous impact not only on L.A. County, but throughout the nation,\u201d Gasc\u00f3n commented. \u201cThe reality is that crime is up around the nation, in fact some of our neighboring counties per capita are having higher levels of violence than we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gasc\u00f3n continued to deflect criticisms of his handling of L.A. County, saying there is a \u201cnational problem,\u201d and L.A. is starting to \u201ccome out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of things that are not working. I see them. I\u2019m frustrated as much as the next person. It is a national problem. It\u2019s not just an L.A. problem. But L.A. in many ways is actually beginning to come out of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The leftist DA has faced mounting criticism over his handling of multiple criminal cases. Earlier this month, two El Monte police officers in L.A. County were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/murdered-by-a-coward-two-california-police-officers-killed-after-being-essentially-ambushed\">essentially ambushed<\/a>\u201d and killed by gang member Justin William Flores. Flores reportedly got a reduced prison time \u2014 thanks to a Gasc\u00f3n policy \u2014 after he pleaded no contest to a charge of possessing a weapon as a felon.<\/p>\n<p>Sources within the DA\u2019s office reportedly told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/mother-slain-california-police-officer-blames-la-county-da-george-gascon\">Fox News<\/a> that if Flores would have been charged in February 2021, he would have likely landed in prison for three years.<\/p>\n<p>In another incident, a teenager got a slap on the wrist of five to seven months in a juvenile camp after he was caught on video running over a woman and her two-month-old baby in a hit-and-run. The mother and her infant son somehow survived, but she blasted Gasc\u00f3n for his alleged soft-on-crime policies.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign effort to recall Gasc\u00f3n has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/campaign-to-recall-radical-la-district-attorney-is-a-go-report\">reached<\/a> a threshold of 567,000 signatures, enough to initiate a recall, but it wants an additional 100,000 to 150,000 signatures to ensure the recall qualifies, as the campaign expects the registrar to deem some invalid.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for signature submissions for the recall is July 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n joined local station KTLA 5 Saturday morning to defend his record as he faces a potential recall. Gasc\u00f3n was asked by news anchors Lynette Romero and Mark Meester to respond to those criticizing him as a \u201csoft-on-crime\u201d DA as L.A. has seen an 8.6% rise in violent crime &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1528724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}