In the least surprising election result of this election cycle, the Democrat George Gascon received a shock Tuesday from his opponent, independent Nathan Hochman, in the Los Angeles district attorney race, losing 62 percent to 38 percent.

The writing was on the wall for Gasconlike LA voters didn’t just try twice without success remember him but also 74% of primary voters Vote for candidates other than Gascon in April.

Turns out voters really do want a safe county free of violent crime. Voters rightly blamed Gascon for the crime tsunami he unleashed with his pro-crime policies.

Hochman, a former Republican running against Gascon as an independent, has prosecuted drug dealers, human traffickers and corrupt public officials as an assistant U.S. attorney in California. He led the Justice Department’s tax division during the last year of George W. Bush’s eight-year presidency.

Gasconone of the most prominent rogue prosecutors whose campaigns received fundraising boosts from the liberal financier George Soroshe has stubbornly maintained that crime has fallen during his tenure overseeing the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office.

But that wasn’t true and everyone knew it. During the only debate last month between Gascon and Hochman, the moderators cited statistics about violent crimes from the California Department of Justice and the Los Angeles Police Department for 2019 to 2023, which showed that crime increased every year under Gascon’s tenure.

As I wrote Hereyou know you’re in trouble politically when, as a leftist candidate, media personalities moderating a political debate essentially call you a liar.

Gascon’s loss was inevitable when he unveiled his sweeping pro-crime, anti-victim and cop-hating directives in his first week in office. It was only a matter of time.

The sheer scale and magnitude of Gascon’s policies were astounding. Each of them served criminals and ignored or punished victims. No civil society, not even one with uber-liberal values, could long tolerate the degradation of law and order that came as a result of the prosecutor’s policies.

Over the years, Gascon has been sued by dozens of its own prosecutors, including for creating a hostile work environment, for workplace retaliation and for discriminationdefamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Gascon has lost almost all of these cases, costing Los Angeles County millions of dollars.

A amazing 97.2% of front-line prosecutors who are members of the Los Angeles County Deputy Prosecutors Association voted to support Gascon’s 2022 recall.

The union, which is made up of more than 900 prosecutors, has sued Gascon multiple times, including for allegedly violating the state’s public records law and forcing prosecutors to violate state law by failing to file enhancements or charges in appropriate cases. Those lawsuits won at the trial court level and await a decision by the California Supreme Court.

Before Gascon’s policies disappear into a memory hole, we thought it would be useful to list some of his craziest directives that we’ve written about Herediscussed in our book “Rogue prosecutors,” and discussed at length Here in The Heritage Foundation documentary on crime.

Gascon’s directives, applicable to all 900-plus prosecutors in his office:

• It barred prosecutors from charging 13 specific felonies and gave them the freedom to decline to prosecute hundreds of other misdemeanor crimes on the books.
• It barred prosecutors from asking for cash bail for any misdemeanor, misdemeanor or nonviolent crime, regardless of the defendant’s criminal record. To make matters worse, prosecutors could not oppose a lawyer’s request to remove or modify the defendant’s condition of release; nor could prosecutors oppose a defense attorney’s request that a judge not issue a warrant against the defendant for failure to appear.
• It barred prosecutors from filing sentencing enhancements or charges regardless of the underlying facts of a case. The California Legislature has enacted dozens of sentencing enhancements to be used when an offender commits a crime against specific categories of people, such as children, women, the elderly, and others, and when there are aggravating circumstances, such as the use of of a firearm or recidivism. .
• It barred prosecutors from charging violent juveniles as adults regardless of crime, including murder and child rape.
• He established a unit in the District Attorney’s Office to look for cases of “injustice” and “racial injustice” in the convictions the office has won over the decades.
• It prohibited prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in any case.
• It established a unit called the Conviction Integrity Unit to work “independently” to overturn and dissolve the bureau’s decades-long convictions in cases where the “interests of justice” require review and reversal.
• A resentencing unit has been set up that requires prosecutors to “reassess and consider the resentencing of people who have already served 15 years in prison”. This applied to murderers, rapists of children and adults, gang members, and anyone convicted by the office and sentenced to life without parole, life, or a determinate sentence of decades. The directive also required prosecutors to “join defendant’s motion to vacate all purported sentence enhancements” for the pending cases.
• He barred prosecutors from attending parole hearings.
• It required prosecutors to “support in writing” a convict’s request for parole if he “has already served his mandatory minimum period of incarceration.”

Gascon’s political demise is the natural and likely consequence of his policies, which are emblematic of the broader rogue prosecutor movement supported by liberal financier Soros. This movement continues to be the worst social experiment in decades. It is a social pandemic that can be avoided.

Los Angeles County Assistant District Attorney Jonathan Hatami, an outspoken and courageous critic of Gascon, gave us the following statement:

“George Gascon’s four-year reign is finally over. He will go down as the worst DA in LA County history. Now is the time to get back to what a real prosecutor should do – follow the law, support victims, prioritize public safety and prosecute crime. I am prepared to work with Nathan Hochman to do just that.”

Hatami was presented at a crime symposium sponsored by the Heritage Foundation in Los Angeles, according to reports Herealong with Deputy District Attorney Eric Siddal and former Deputy District Attorney Kathleen Cady.

Gascon joins a long list of rogue rejects, including Chesa Boudin, Marilyn Mosby, Rachel Rollinsand Kim Gardnerwho were either recalled, lost their elections, or resigned in disgrace. Kim Foxx of Chicago, the first Soros-funded rogue prosecutor to be elected, chose not to run again as Chicago’s rising crime rate became a political albatross for Democrats, who in August held their national convention in her city.

Of the eight most notorious rogue Soros-funded prosecutors profiled in our book, only Larry Krasner of Philadelphia and Alvin Bragg of New York remain in office.

The other six were defeated. Krasner and Bragg won’t be far behind if voters in their cities also hold them accountable for increasing crime rates as a result of their ill-conceived policies.