Law-and-order voters in America’s second largest city finally fire their radical DA

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Where Gascón goes next is unknown. But no matter his destination, he remains a threat to public safety.

Los Angeles County voters fired their district attorney, George Gascón, on Tuesday – with prejudice. As of Thursday morning he was down more than 20 percentage points to challenger Nathan Hochman, a Republican running as an independent who served as assistant attorney general under George W. Bush.

As it turns out, even blue voters have reached a tipping point with crime and have lost confidence in prosecutors who are conducting real-time sociological experiments they call reform. They’re ready for Hochman to reverse Gascón’s policies.

Read the entire Fox News op-ed here.

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