When progressive crusader George Gascon swept into the LA County DA’s office in late 2020, he issued a bunch of orders about how crimes would be prosecuted under his tenure. One of those was a blanket refusal to charge any juveniles as adults.
That backfired on Gascon in a big way when it was revealed that one sex offender Gascon’s office tried as a juvenile was laughing about gaming the system in jailhouse phone calls. Gascon admitted he’d made a mistake in that case but it wasn’t the only mistake he’d made.
Shanice Dyer was a member of the Crips gang and committed a double murder when she was 17-years-old. Gascon’s predecessor planned to charge her as an adult but his election, and the blanket policies he issued on day one, changed that.
Nearly five years ago, Alfredo Carrera and his friend, José Flores Velázquez, were murdered in South Los Angeles simply for standing in a gang’s…
