{"id":2353326,"date":"2024-10-10T17:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-california-da-under-recall-quietly-drops-1000-cases-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:06:44","slug":"left-wing-california-da-under-recall-quietly-drops-1000-cases-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-california-da-under-recall-quietly-drops-1000-cases-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-wing California DA under recall quietly drops 1,000 cases &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fleft-wing-california-da-under-recall-quietly-drops-1000-cases-washington-examiner%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=2353326&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>Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, facing a recall election next month, is under scrutiny for her handling of over\u2064 1,000 misdemeanor criminal cases. Reports indicate \u2064that these cases, which \u200dinclude serious offenses, \u200dwent \u200cunprosecuted due to delays in \u2062filing charges\u2014a responsibility that rests with her office. Price has \u200cattributed the\u200d backlog to \u2063issues inherited from her\u200c predecessor,\u2063 Nancy O&#8217;Malley, who disputes these claims.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of \u20642023, \u2063many individuals arrested on\u200b misdemeanor charges, \u2063including\u200c violent offenses, \u200cwill not face prosecution because the one-year deadline\u2063 for filing charges has lapsed. Critics, including members\u2064 of the Oakland Police Officers\u2019 Association, express concern that this situation may embolden criminal behavior,\u200b creating a perceived lack of consequences for\u2062 offenses in the city, which is already experiencing significant crime-related challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Price \u2063has been criticized for not providing regular\u200b updates on case outcomes \u200band has\u2062 cited \u2062a deficient case management \u200dsystem\u2063 as a contributing factor. Despite the \u200ddifficulties of\u2062 managing \u200da comprehensive\u200c caseload, \u200bmany believe the \u200cnumber\u200c of cases\u200b dropped is alarming and indicative\u2063 of an ineffective prosecution strategy at \u200ca time of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-house-gop-signal-support-for-police-in-midst-of-defunding-calls\/\" title=\"McCarthy, House GOP Signal Support for Police in Midst of Defunding Calls\">rising crime rates<\/a> in\u200c Oakland, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delusions-of-progressive-resistance-in-pas-heartland\/\" title=\"Delusions Of Progressive \u2018Resistance\u2019 In PA\u2019s Heartland\">county seat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>the situation reflects broader concerns regarding the ability of elected officials,\u200b like\u200b Price and Oakland Mayor \u200dSheng Thao, to effectively govern in the face of\u2064 rising crime and public \u200cdissatisfaction.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Left-wing California district attorney under recall quietly drops 1,000 criminal cases<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1761959\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of people arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"crimes\">crimes<\/a> in one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"crimes\">California<\/a> county, including a person who had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit when he slammed into three parked cars, will walk free after prosecutors failed to file their charges on time, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/pamela-price-alameda-case-19808804.php?utm_content=hed&amp;sid=65d7568c6475f55df90fddaf&amp;ss=A&amp;st_rid=8dc08d31-83c2-44ce-b88f-2ae75b7346f4&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=headlines&amp;utm_campaign=sfc_morningfix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"news report\">new report<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Alameda County District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pamelaprice4da.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"recall\">Pamela Price<\/a>, who is facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/recallpamelaprice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"recall\">recall<\/a> next month, acknowledged a backlog of cases that need review but blamed the problem on the previous administration. Her predecessor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyomalleyforda.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Nancy O&rsquo;Malley<\/a>, denied&nbsp;the allegations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-election-campaign-live-updates-harris-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suspects in the cases were all issued citations or arrested by police officers who filed their reports on time to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/van-orden-accuses-rnc-protester-of-assault-in-political-violence-incident-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Van Orden accuses RNC protester of assault in political violence incident - Washington Examiner\">district attorney&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s office for review. Price&rsquo;s office prosecutors had a year to decide whether to file misdemeanor charges. In felony cases, the district attorney&rsquo;s office is typically given three years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Oakland, California. (Scott Strazzante\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since the start&nbsp;of 2023, more than 1,000 misdemeanor criminal cases <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">have fallen through the cracks, expiring without a decision on <\/span>whether to prosecute, according to records shared with the&nbsp;<em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>. One case involved a woman found in a stolen car with brass knuckles, and another involved a man who tried to use a fake receipt to return close to $800 worth of&nbsp;merchandise from Home Depot he hadn&rsquo;t purchased.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Price&rsquo;s office has been criticized for failing to produce regular reports on charging decisions to the public, something she has blamed on a poor case management system that&rsquo;s been in place.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>San Francisco Chronicle <\/em>interviewed multiple officials who were granted anonymity. They provided evidence that 360 cases had already been declined for prosecution due to missing their filing deadlines. Of those, 62% were submitted by law enforcement after the start of 2023, when Price was sworn into office. Another 646 cases are still technically pending but almost assuredly will be dropped because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-a-movement-built-on-the-illusion-of-martyrdom\/\" title=\"Black Lives Matter: A Movement Built On The Illusion Of Martyrdom\">crimes allegedly committed<\/a> were carried out more than a year ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A majority of the cases dropped came from crime-ridden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/oakland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Oakland\">Oakland<\/a>. The city is in the middle of one of its most turbulent times in decades, fueled by a mayor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3153829\/oakland-recall-city-political-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sheng Thao\">Sheng Thao<\/a>, who is also being recalled by voters frustrated over crime, corruption, and a reluctance to hold lawbreakers accountable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao delivers a speech onstage with her family at the Paramount Theatre during the City of Oakland Inauguration Ceremony on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, in Oakland, Calif. Thao becomes Oakland&rsquo;s first Hmong mayor. (Yalonda M. James\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thao and Price were voted into office together as part of a progressive wave of officials who have since become problematic for the city.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Huy Nguyen, president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opoa.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Oakland Police Officer's Association\">Oakland Police Officers&rsquo; Association<\/a>, called the number of cases&nbsp;dropped troubling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The challenge is that when there&rsquo;s zero consequences, people continue to see how much they can get away with,&rdquo; Nguyen said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland Police Officers&rsquo; Association has repeatedly demanded Thao resign from her post, saying the city has become an &ldquo;international embarrassment&rdquo; under her leadership.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused Thao of making Oakland &ldquo;a more dangerous place.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For almost two years, we have been waiting and see this ship is not stirring in the right direction,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;The leadership in the city continues to fail again and again, and the citizens on the street are suffering.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dylan Qin, 8, holds a sign as Seneca Scott speaks during a Coalition for Community Engagement&rsquo;s protest outside City Hall in reaction to Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao&rsquo;s absence since the FBI raided her home, in Oakland, California, Sunday, June 23, 2024. (Scott Strazzante\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oakland is the county seat of Alameda. <\/p>\n<p>While the ability to review every single misdemeanor case that crosses a prosecutor&rsquo;s desk is a tough task, those in Price&rsquo;s office say the number that has piled up is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Most misdemeanors in the Bay Area do not lead to jail time, but prosecutions set in motion consequences for offenders such as drug and treatment programs, probation, and traffic school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you have enough DUI convictions, it becomes a felony,&rdquo;&nbsp;said Melissa Dooher, a former Alameda County prosecutor who left the office in 2023. &ldquo;And of course, in the meantime, if you&rsquo;re going untreated, if you&rsquo;re going unpunished, if you&rsquo;re not on probation, you&rsquo;re basically a danger to the community if you re-offend.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Dooher said she can only recall a handful of times when a case was tossed because a decision had not been made within the statute of limitations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But if it&rsquo;s just literally sitting in a pile, whether that&rsquo;s electronic or a physical file, the only real reason it happens is due to understaffing, and the current charging DA is just literally not having the time and bandwidth to deal with it,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Other chief prosecutors in the region called Alameda County&rsquo;s big backlog &ldquo;highly unusual.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" \"> <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>San Mateo County District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smcgov.org\/da\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Stephen Wagstaffe \">Stephen Wagstaffe <\/a>said, &ldquo;You have a deadline. You make your deadline.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/sfdistrictattorney.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Brooke Jenkins\">Brooke Jenkins<\/a>, who took office in July 2022 following the recall of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/97034\/ousted-san-francisco-da-reveals-2024-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Chesa Boudin\">Chesa Boudin<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-is-stealing-wrong-not-on-the-left\/\" title=\"PRAGER: Is Stealing Wrong? Not On The Left\">previous district attorney<\/a>, said she did not inherit a high volume of uncharged cases and said Alameda County&rsquo;s problem &ldquo;is not something I have ever seen in my decade of being a prosecutor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1761959\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1761959\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California DA facing recall dismisses over 1,000 criminal cases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":2353327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pamelaprice.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4045,33010,6045,10401,37989],"class_list":["post-2353326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-california","tag-criminal-justice","tag-das","tag-prosecution","tag-recall-election"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/pamelaprice.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353326","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\/2646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}