Posts by Anna

A coalition of current and former elected prosecutors, including former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, has urged the State Bar to implement a new rule that would reduce political influence from law enforcement unions over decisions made by prosecutors. Today on AirTalk, Larry sits down with Gascón to discuss the latest with mass protests […]

The Los Angeles police union (LAPPL), through two PACs, spent $1 million toward defeating Gascón, who is opposing incumbent Jackie Lacey in a November runoff election for district attorney. […]

LOS ANGELES – Today, George Gascón released the following statement in response to actions at the Hall of Justice: “The killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis has struck a deep chord of familiarity and pain for Angelenos. These feelings and these protests would not be as raw, nor as widespread, had multiple instances of […]

LOS ANGELES – In the wake of mass protests following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, a coalition of current and former elected prosecutors representing millions of Californians in diverse counties banded together to call on the California State Bar to cure the conflict of interest created by police unions’ outsized influence in local elections. […]

Earlier this year, without raising money for incumbent Los Angeles Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey directly, the union put up $1 million to defeat her reform-oriented opponent, George Gascón. (The Times has endorsed Gascón.) It was an independent expenditure, and as such it backed the candidate without necessarily creating the same kind of conflict of interest as a direct […]