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For decades we attached felony consequences to low-level offenses. It foreclosed job and housing opportunities exacerbated recidivism, crime and homelessness, and created more victims. We must desgin a system that actually listens to, protects, and restores victims. Beginning immediately, victims will no longer be required to testify to receive victim services. And this office will extend victim services to families of those killed by law enforcement.

I have already pledged to re-open four fatal officer-involved shootings. My office will no convene a Use of Force Review Board to review fatal use of force in cases dating back to at leasat 2012. We must hold police accountable to restore trust in law enforcement.

Forty years ago I walked my first beat as a young police officer. Today, I was sword in as the 43rd District Attorney of Los Angeles. I am not the same man I was when I first put on the uniform. One of the many reasons for that is because of situations I faced as a young officer–situations and experiences that have stayed with me and that continue to shape my approach to this work. Those experiences taught me the criminal justice system is fundamentally broken. Today, we will usher in a new era of criminal justice and transform the largest criminal justice jurisdiction in America.

The money bail system is as unsafe as it is unjust. Money is a terrible proxy for risk posed to society. So today we will end cash bail for any misdemeanor, non-serious or non-violent felony offense. And I will end bail completely January 1.

The pursuit of justice is timeless and that’s why these policies will be applied retroactively. At least 20,000 people currently incarcerated in prison will now be eligible for consideration for resentencing. This will save California BILLIONS of dollars. At least 50% of all persons sentenced to state prison from LA are rated low-risk reoffend by prison officials. 95% of individuals who have served twenty years or more are rated low-risk to reoffend. These excessive sentences are NOT making us safer. My office will prioritize consideration for people convicted of nonviolent crimes, those deemed low risk for release, people with demonstrated records of rehabilitation, older individuals, people who are especially at risk for COVID-19, and people sentenced adult prison terms as children. The resentencing process will be a significant undertaking and will include input from victims and victim advocates. The Amity Foundation, in partinership with the Returning Home Well initiative, have promised to assist everyone resentenced.

There are currently 215 people on California’s death row from LA County alone. An astonishing 85% of them are people of color. The death penalty does not make us safer. It’s racist, morally untenable, irreversible, and expensive. And today, it’s off the table.

In the 80s and 90s, America defunded public housing and mental health. We turned public health problems into criminal ones–the results were disastrous. Now, we will begin diverting first time low-level misdemeanors into service instead of criminalizing homelessness and poverty. Experts estimate that hundreds of individuals behind bars today will be eligible to be freed tomorrow under this new pretrial release policy.

Enhancements, a legacy of “tough-on-crime” era, are a principal driver of excessive sentences and mass incarceration. California enacted over one hundred enhancements which are outdated, incoherent, and applied unfairly. To end mass incarceration in LA we will cease filing ALL enhancements. California’s 1994 Three Strikes Law has been a disaster. in 1980 California had a prison population of ~23,000. In 1990, that number grew to ~94,000. And in 1999, five years after passage of Three Strikes, California’s prison population ballooned to 160,000 souls. Three Strikes ends in my office beginning today.

Today we are confronting the lie that stripping entire communities of their liberties somehow made us safer–and we’re doing it with science, research, and data. For decades those who profit off incarceration have used their enormous political influence–cloaked in the false veil of safety–to scare the public and our elected officials into backing racist policies that created more victims, destroyed budgets, and shattered our moral compass. That lie and the harm it caused ends now. Taken together these sweeping reforms are intended to permanently change the course of California’s criminal justice system and end the era of mass incarceration in Los Angeles and beyond. But stay tuned. There’s more to come.

An additional tweet from the Prosecutors Alliance:

Today George Gascón announced:

End of death penalty End of sentence enhancements End of trying children as adults End of cash bail End of criminalizing homelessness, mental health and addiction.

I figure out I had ADHD last year, but I didn’t seek an official diagnosis and medication until this year. I’m 30 years old, my school days are long behind me. I slipped through the cracks because I have predominately inattentive type and I was a quiet little girl. Having ADHD does not mean you have to be hyperactive and loud, it means you have a processing problem in your brain that doesn’t allow you to regulate your focus or emotions. 

Mental health even now is still taboo to talk about. People are more open now than ever about it however and that gives me hope. 

basically they all stem from a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of santorini off the coast of greece. the ash then floated over to egypt which kickstarted the plagues

1) blood: the ash carried the mineral cinnabar, which has the capability of turning water red

2) frogs: the ash also had many toxic and acidic substances so naturally, all the frogs are gonna flee the river

3) lice: given what was going on insects would have burrowed into dead animals/peoples skin and laid eggs, which then hatched

4) beasts: everything is getting poisoned from the ash and toxins, causing animals to freak the fuck out/die

5) pestilence: toxins again

6) boils: the ash would have caused storms that carried acid rain which when it fell, would irritate peoples skin causing boils

7) hail: the storm again

8) locusts: again with the insects and the amount of dead bodies and such which attract more insects. a lotta insects basically.

9) darkness: the ash covered the sky, blocking out the sun

10) slaying of the first born: given that children’s bodies were found in higher numbers than others, some archeologists think they may have been sacrificed to stop all the destruction, but they aren’t 100% sure about that. this is just me but I would say another possibility is that babies/kids are a lot more susceptible to toxins and shit, so while an adult may have been fine or gotten a bit sick, it might have been very dangerous/deadly for kids or babies

the volcano would also attest for the parting of the sea weirdly enough. the red sea was in fact the ‘reed’ sea, and was very shallow, probably waist deep or so. given the amount of shit dumped into the ocean from the volcano, this wouldve caused a tsunami to head towards egypt. the water would get sucked out from the reed sea right before the tsunami hit, letting people pass it easily, then the actual tsunami would hit, fuckin up anyone who tried to follow.

another theory is that the red water was caused by algae, which would cause the frogs and stuff to jump out as well. the algae also carried substances toxic to animals so if they ingested any they’d get sick and die, so more insects. in this theory there was a sand storm coincidentally that caused the rest

The tsunamis from the Theran eruption devastated Crete, weakening the then-powerful Minoan civilization, leaving them open to being invaded by the Mycenaeans.

The volcanic winter it created devastated crops in China leading to the fall of the Xia Dynasty. 

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