Four prosecutors who head some of the country's largest district attorney's offices discussed their progressive reforms Tuesday. District attorneys Chesa Boudin of San Francisco, George Gascon of Los Angeles County, Kim Foxx, the state attorney for Cook County, Illinois, and Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner defended their policies.
, George Gascon of Los Angeles County and Larry Krasner of Philadelphia attended, as did Kim Foxx, the state attorney for Cook County, Illinois.
Much of the panel blamed most crimes on several factors: poverty, racism, access to mental health care and over-policing. over concerns. In Los Angeles County, thieves had taken to following victims home from shopping malls and restaurants to rob them at home or in secluded areas. Gascon's other policies include barring prosecutors from trying juveniles as adults, which has been walked back, and not seeking cash bail or enhancement charges for repeat offenders. Krasner
"The reality is that Donald Trump knows how to turn out ‘Duck Dynasty’ and a bunch of guys with long beards who want to kidnap people and if Democrats don't stop acting like it's the Clinton era and rejecting progressives and rejecting criminal justice reform, then they will not turn out the sensible and progressive and young and Black and brown folks that they need to beat this bunch of fascists," he added.
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