Alameda County DA Pamela Price on a Progressive Approach to Rising Crime and the Recall Against Her

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price was elected into office in 2022 on a reform platform to root out racial and socioeconomic disparities in the county justice system and end mass incarceration. But as Oakland contends with a surge in crime and as brazen robberies and assaults shake residents, Price has become the target of a well-funded recall campaign from those who say criminals are emboldened by a lack of consequences. We talk with Price about her vision for the office and the recall campaign against her. Guests: Pamela Price, district attorney, Alameda County, California; civil rights attorney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.9	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:16.3	Pamela Price won election as Alameda County District Attorney in 2022 with 53% of the vote.
1:22.5	She promised to be a progressive DA to try to end the quote over criminalization of black and brown young people
1:29.1	and to rework the basic operations of the district attorney's office. She went in the same year that
1:35.1	Chesa Boudin and San Francisco lost a recall election, which complicated the narrative that the
1:39.7	Bay Area had swung to tough on crime policies. But now Price faces a well-funded recall as crime in Oakland has surged over the last year,
1:49.5	and really all the way since 2019's low.
1:52.3	Pamela Price joins us to talk about her vision and response to rising Oakland crime after this news.
2:04.0	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. We're joined this morning by Alameda County District
2:09.1	Attorney Pamela Price, who made the trip over the bridge to our studio here, and we're
2:12.8	going to get right into it. Thank you for joining us, District Attorney Price.
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