KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the IHeart Radio app.

I'm Phil Schumann rolling towards the 4 o'clock hour filling in for John.

Thanks so much for the opportunity. And I appreciate the listeners who I feel are taking part in democracy by paying attention, by being involved, by listening, by trying to educate themselves.

Of course, we have the presidential election coming out, coming up. Everybody's talking about

the big moment tonight. Kamala Harris preparing for the speech of her life. That's true,

but there are also other significant elections. Among them, Los Angeles County District Attorney.

I bumped into a candidate Nathan

Hoffman last night who was addressing the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association Group while we were

moderating a debate on LA School Board candidates. Another important election coming up in November.

Mr. Hoffman, you'd like to replace DA, George Gascon, is with us now. Thanks so much for joining me.

Great to be on with you, so why will Los Angeles be safer?

And I use Los Angeles in the broad county sense.

Why will Los Angeles be safer with you versus Mr. Gascon?

So Gascon has basically implemented the most pro-criminal anti-victim policies in DA history. This is including policies that say to

juveniles or people under 18, if you steal under $950, we're not going to prosecute you.

And if you use a gun during a violent crime, the gun enhancement won't be applied.

He told these prosecutors that if someone is involved with a violent crime and they're

part of a gang, the gang enhancement, which has been applied for decades, no longer can be

applied. So it's not shocking that criminals have looked at what's going on,

use the lines moving in their favor, and then increase their criminal activity. And the California

Department of Justice recently came out with statistics showing that violent crime, property crimes,

hate crimes, fenced in all poisonings are a double or triple digit. What I would do is do the opposite.

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