{"id":5491,"date":"2021-12-21T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2021-12-21T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:22:11","slug":"gascon-no-punishment-for-juvenile-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5491","title":{"rendered":"Gasc\u00f3n:  No Punishment For Juvenile Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doubling down on policies guaranteed to increase crime, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n announced yesterday that he is expanding a program which protects juvenile offenders from prosecution.\u00a0 Scott Schwebke of the LA Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2021\/12\/20\/juveniles-can-avoid-jail-for-robbery-burglary-arson-under-new-policies-by-da-gascon\/\">reports<\/a> that the the expanded REDY program will allow juveniles facing charges for robbery, burglary, arson, sexual battery and assault to be diverted to a &#8220;restorative justice&#8221; program and avoid prosecution.\u00a0 The Executive Director of Centinela Youth Services, which will manage the program, told reporters that studies have shown that juveniles participating in her program are 50-70% less likely to be rearrested.\u00a0 She presented no link to any study so we&#8217;ll just have to take her word for it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Eric Siddall, Vice President of the Los Angeles County Association of Deputy District Attorneys told the Daily News &#8220;Suitability is no longer the standard under Gasc\u00f3n&#8217;s approach.\u00a0 Rather there&#8217;s a blanket approach regardless of the crime.\u00a0 With Gasc\u00f3n&#8217;s policy, you can sexually batter someone and you may never see the inside of a courtroom.\u00a0 You can rob someone and may never be held accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gasc\u00f3n&#8217;s office suggests that the diversion program will save thousands of tax dollars needed to prosecute and incarcerate offenders.\u00a0 The program falls in line with Gasc\u00f3n&#8217;s social justice agenda which forbids prosecuting violent juveniles as adults, eliminates cash bail, seeks the shortest sentences possible even for violent criminals and refuses to seek the death penalty for the county&#8217;s worst murderers.\u00a0 With the Mayor of LA, the County Sheriff and even Governor Gavin Newsom acknowledging the crime crisis surging across the state, &#8220;The only person who seems not to realize there is a crisis is District Attorney Gasc\u00f3n,&#8221; 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