Imperfect Paradise: District Attorney Gascón: Part 1

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

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Voters elected Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón in 2020 on his promises to undo decades of mass incarceration, tackle what many viewed as excessive prison sentences, and to generally create a fairer system. LAist Civics & Democracy Correspondent Frank Stoltze explores the criminal justice system Gascón set out to change. He examines decades-old practices and the impact on the people imprisoned through the case of Jose Santana. Santana ended up being sentenced to 22 years in adult prison for robbing two kids of their cellphones when he was 15.

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0:08.4	I'm Larry Manzel.
0:09.4	And I'm Desmond, his son and co-host.
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0:30.0	This is In Perfect Paradise, the show about the gap between the dream and reality.
0:36.0	I'm Antonia Cerejido.
0:41.0	This past March was my first time covering an election.
0:44.8	It was a primary election here in Los Angeles.
0:48.1	One of the races on the ballot was for Los Angeles County District Attorney,
0:52.4	the incumbent George Gascon was running for
0:55.1	re-election against 11 challengers. If he could win the majority of the votes, that
1:00.5	would be it election over. Gascon wins. But otherwise the top two
1:05.8	candidates would face off in the November election. Nobody thought Gascon was
1:11.8	going to win outright,
1:13.3	even his own campaign manager,
1:15.7	who hadn't planned a watch party for Gascon's supporters.
1:19.4	That's what I expected.
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