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It's getting to the point in some cities that you aren't safe wearing a nice watch, or drive a nice car, without worrying about getting mugged for it. In many places now the police don't even want to be bothered with theft crimes, there are just too many of them and the perps, if caught, are back on the street in a couple of hours, and the prosecutors refuse to prosecute. Rinse, repeat.

My sister has been a prosecutor for the city of Los Angeles for the last 20 years- trust me, it’s not the prosecutors. She is near calling it quits as she can’t do her job anymore- which is to lock up criminals. The mandates for leniency on crime come from far above the prosecutors offices.

My statement that the prosecutors refuse to do their job was too broad, they are hard working people. The elected LA County prosecutor, George Gascon, sets the tone and direction for the prosecutors in LA county. His positions on crime (restorative justice, end of cash bail, no charging of juveniles as adults for any crime) are well known, which are pretty much the same the positions as Governor Gavin Newsom, the top elected official in CA. That's what is blocking your sister from doing her job. No need to make this any sort of political discussion, but when criminals aren't taken off the streets for more than a few hours and with no real consequences for their activity, crime flourishes.

Totally agreed- appreciate the clarification- it mirrors what she says.

I dealt with a pretty serious assault last week or the week before. It’s a little hazy. I wasn’t involved physically a actually broke it up. One dude received a good 10-15 punches to the face as the assailant was on top of him. Then for good measure a stomp as he was pulled off him. Couldn’t even get the cops to take him. They wrote a summons to appear.

I was in court on unrelated cases quite a bit in September and I did hear a group of cops standing together talking about how they are not pleased following the orders they are currently receiving. Just domestic assaults they feel they have to go too heavy on as in the area I work someone who was released on a DV got out in a day or two went back and killed his victim so now they are putting some heavy bonds on simple domestics which they think is a little extreme. TBH it’s sounds like everything is a mess at the moment and if you are given a call to be at court at 9a often they don’t open the doors until 11a then as soon as you get in the court room the judge calls a 20 minute recess because they can’t find the prosecutor, stenographer or the files haven’t made it down yet. They are really trying to figure out the backlog it has to be pretty bad I won’t critique then too badly as fortunately I’m not at court cause my name is on the docket, court is a lot better when you are there for reasons other than defending yourself.