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Prosecutors assigned to the new unit will focus on areas that the Los Angeles Police Department has determined to be “violence prone,” starting with the Foothill, 77th Street and Newton divisions, according to the memo and a news release Gascón issued Tuesday.
Representatives for the LAPD did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
“Unless we have a community-based solution to the problem, we’re not going to create a sustainable answer,” Gascón said during a news conference earlier this month, adding that the new unit will shift away from a “purely prosecutorial model.”
Gascón and others have touted the move as part of a broader cultural shift that will lead the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office to put as much effort into rehabilitation and crime prevention as it does toward punishment. But some of Gascón’s own line prosecutors have questioned the timing and execution of the move.
Gascón to disband LA County DA Hardcore Gangs unit
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LOS ANGELES - Three weeks after FOX 11 reported on major changes possibly coming to the way Los Angeles prosecutes gang-related crimes, FOX 11 has obtained an internal memo indicating that George Gascón is disbanding the County DA Office s Hardcore Gangs unit.
The latest comes as sources in the LA County DA Office s Hardcore Gangs told Melugin last week that they were informed by the office s upper management that their unit will be downsized. On top of the downsize, the unit will be renamed because administration doesn t like it, Melugin reports.
A young prosecutor who has tried only a handful of cases in a six-year career.
A veteran defense attorney who once described herself as a check against a racist criminal justice system.
In assembling the executive team that will serve as his closest advisors in the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón brought together a group of people whose voices would have almost certainly been ignored under previous administrations.
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The decision to place public defenders in leadership roles is emblematic of Gascón’s promise to radically change the culture of the L.A. County district attorney’s office. Building a justice system focused on rehabilitation, rather than punishment, requires the counsel of those who have seen clients’ lives ruined by excessively punitive sentences, he says.