Two El Monte cops in Los Angeles County, Michael Paredes and Joseph Santana, were murdered in cold blood earlier this week by a gang member who ought to have been behind bars however as a substitute was free to kill due to the so-called progressive criminal-justice polices in vogue in America’s cities, courtesy of woke legislators and prosecutors.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, having spent a mixed 9 years as San Francisco’s DA and police chief, moved to LA and was elected to function its DA in 2020, bringing his pro-criminal insurance policies with him.
A lot of the accountability for the murders of Cpl. Paredes and Officer Santana rests on Gascón’s shoulders.
The cop-killer in query, Justin Flores, who was additionally killed within the shootout with the 2 officers, had served two jail phrases for housebreaking and automobile theft and pleaded no contest to possessing a firearm as a felon final winter.
A day earlier than the capturing, Flores’ probation officer filed for a revocation listening to after the suspect allegedly assaulted his girlfriend the week prior, violating his probation. As a substitute of ready for the listening to behind bars, he was allowed to stroll free in response to Gascón’s insurance policies.

Gascón’s pro-criminal insurance policies are resulting in extra harmless individuals dying.
They’ve allowed a report variety of violent gang members, rapists, home abusers and murderers to be let off with a slap on the wrist, together with lowered sentences and beneficiant parole choices.
California’s metastasizing felony class know that they will get away with their actions, or at worse get lowered sentences, wait it out, and get proper again to the place they left off. LA County specifically has change into a playground for criminals who prey on extraordinary taxpayers, and Gascón and soft-on-crime prosecutors like him brazenly sign to those predators that they received’t must pay for his or her actions.
And the issue just isn’t restricted to Gascón. Look at Chesa Boudin, who changed Gascón as San Francisco’s district legal professional in 2020, fought in court docket to remove cash bail from the judicial system. In New York, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg mainly promised to decriminalize shoplifting.
The backlash
However maybe the tide is lastly turning. Boudin was eliminated in a recall election, and the voters of Orange County, Calif., soundly rejected one other pro-criminal candidate for his or her DA in favor of tough-on-crime incumbent Todd Spitzer, who received greater than 60% of the vote.
If George Gascón weren’t in workplace courtesy of LA County’s voters, these two slain cops would have returned house to their wives and youngsters. As a substitute, these girls at the moment are widows, and their youngsters are fatherless.

Law enforcement officials all the time threat their lives once they placed on the badge and exit on patrol, however they didn’t signal as much as serve underneath a system that protects the criminals greater than the victims or the peace officers. LA County has extra residents than many US states, they usually all deserve higher.
Harmeet Okay. Dhillon is chairwoman of the Republican Nationwide Legal professionals Affiliation.