This way so his words carry a lot of weight and as the city of l.a. reeled from the murders of two young women, one stabbed in the store where she worked and another on the side of a freeway. and armed street attacks, the d.a. s policy of not using sentencing enhancement for violent crime is hurting the city he s supposed to protect. his office has the responsibility to ensure that they re using every measure that s afforded them as prosecutors with pursuing justice for these that are preying upon others, particularly violent crime and also the chronic offender. the d.a. s office did not respond to our request for comment, but did say this at his last press conference. the reality is that the punishment based approach to the work does not serve us