To the editor: Within the 2020 election, I voted for George Gascón for district lawyer within the hope that he would possibly reform the justice system in Los Angeles County and take a extra humane strategy to these arrested, particularly the numerous minority youths caught up in it. (“Nathan Hochman wins race for Los Angeles County D.A., beating George Gascón,” Nov. 5)
However I voted in opposition to him in our current election, as a result of I felt he took too radical an strategy to implementing our legal guidelines.
The outgoing district lawyer, defeated by Nathan Hochman, by no means appeared to understand the outrage that had been constructing in opposition to him for the previous a number of years. We watched mass robberies helplessly. We see vehicles in our neighborhoods which have been stolen, damaged into and had catalytic converters taken. We frequently should step round drug addicts handed out on our sidewalks and folks residing inside soiled tents whereas cops of their squad vehicles drive by oblivious to the human tragedy in plain sight.
Gascón selected, as his closing insult to the folks of Los Angeles, to ask for re-sentencing of the Menendez brothers. Most of us in L.A. can be glad to see him go and hope this would be the starting of a brand new period of public security.
Doug Weiskopf, Burbank
