Nathan Hochman, who campaigned for district attorney espousing a “hard middle approach” to battling crime and scored a resounding victory over progressive incumbent George Gascón in last month’s election, is set to take the oath of office Tuesday as L.A. County’s 44th head prosecutor.
The 61-year-old former federal prosecutor — who ran as an independent after seeking the state attorney general’s office as a Republican in 2022 — will be sworn in at noon in a ceremony outside the Hall of Justice, with former GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger administering the oath.
Hochman will carry what amounts to a mandate from L.A. County voters to get tougher on crime — with the latest numbers giving him more than 1.9 million votes, or just under 60%, compared to Gascón’s 1.3 million votes. Gascón conceded defeat on Nov. 6, one day after Election Day.
Gascón was swept into office four years ago on a progressive platform — but he became a target of critics, prominently Hochman, who accused him of being soft on crime as high-profile robberies, assaults and killings grabbed headlines.
Gascón defended his record, denying that his policies led to an increase in crime and insisting that statistics show actual drops in many categories. But Hochman disputed those claims.
“We’ll go back to just two things — the facts and the law,” Hochman told his supporters on Election Night in Beverly Hills, where he grew up.
Even while the votes were still being tallied on election night, Hochman told his backers that “the voices of the residents of L.A. County have been heard and they’re saying enough is enough of George Gascón’s policies and they look forward to a safer future.”
The Association of Deputy District Attorneys, which represents county prosecutors, hailed Hochman’s victory as a “pivotal moment in the fight to return balance and accountability to the justice system and to prioritize public safety in a county that has seen a dangerous decline under the failed leadership of George Gascón.”
During a pre-election debate hosted by KNX News and the Los Angeles Times, Gascón highlighted his progressive policies — several of which he implemented once he took office in 2020 — such as limiting extra-long sentences for people accused of using a gun or being a gang member, prosecutions of juveniles as adults and no longer seeking the death penalty, though he later revised some of his policies.
But Hochman said such policies led to an increase in crime across the county, and that he would revoke several of Gascón’s directives.
Hochman had touted his “hard middle approach,” stating it will not lead to mass incarceration but rather that cases would be reviewed individually and punishment meted out proportionally for the crime committed.
According to the California Department of Justice, violent crime is up about 8% from 2019 to 2023 countywide, though in Los Angeles violent crime decreased by about 6%.
“We should not be worse than any other D.A.’s office out there. The L.A. County D.A.’s Office used to be the gold standard by which all other D.A.’s offices had measured,” Hochman said.
Gascón insisted that his office had been holding criminals accountable for their crimes, including retail and residential theft. However, Hochman pointed to high-profile robberies of homes, 7-Eleven stores, retail and other local businesses that he said have led to increased concerns from residents and business owners over public safety.
“We need to send a very strong message of enforcement, accountability and ultimately deterrent to those residential burglaries, and if they’re coming, for instance, (from) overseas, from Chile or from Venezuela, we have to work with the federal government,” Hochman said.
Gascón survived two attempts to recall him, and during his tenure was also accused by 20 prosecutors of workplace retaliation.
Hochman said morale in the D.A.’s office is at a “all-time low,” accusing Gascón of creating “a dysfunctional office.”
During his campaign, Hochman touted what he calls his “Blueprint for Justice” that he said would “restore safety and justice to our county.”
As part of that blueprint, Hochman vowed to “restore the purpose of the District Attorney’s Office to fairly, effectively, and vigorously prosecute those who break laws in Los Angeles County based on the evidence and the law.”
Hochman said he would also “restore the integrity and independence of the district attorney by not making decisions based on a party affiliation or political ideology but solely on the facts and the law.”
One of Hochman’s early high-profile cases will involve Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life sentences without parole for the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. The brothers are waiting for a decision on their bid for release based on what their attorneys say is new evidence that they were sexually abused by their father.
In the run-up to the election, Gascón announced that he supported the resentencing of the brothers, but a judge last week delayed a decision on the matter until January, giving Hochman time to review the case.
The Menendez brothers’ defense team submitted papers to Gov. Gavin Newsom requesting clemency, but the governor said he would not make any decision on the request until Hochman has a chance to review the nearly 35-year-old case.
“The governor respects the role of the district attorney in ensuring justice is served and recognizes that voters have entrusted District Attorney-elect Hochman to carry out this responsibility,” a statement from the governor’s office said.
“The governor will defer to the DA-elect’s review and analysis of the Menendez case prior to making any clemency decisions.”
They Said that Cher was Eaten in Half in Acapulco 2020 with Rest of the Family were All Eaten in Half because somebody Sliced them Before Entering Sea Of Cancun!
Drug Dealer Task Force!
Hate, Greed, Corruption, Lust, Death, Lies, Discrimination!
100% Government Mutiny!
1000% Cyberfraud & Treason!
You do have to understand that this is for every Department across the United States of America.
Whether that be the police department the Sheriff’s Department fire department or the ambulance services of the State of California as well As The United States of America!!!!
10.4 trillion dollars Each department of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Times 109 Cities =
$1,133,600,000,000.00
1100 Trillion Dollars A Year!
Then the captain of the Police Department pulls in $507,000.00 Times 109 Cities = $55,232,000.00
And this has been going on since 1995 now you can see why the world is so fucking broke.
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But to find one of the uneducated law enforcement in the United States of America with a non-commissioned license that’s not broke it’s very rare because each and every one of them was 50 million dollars in the Bank, Broken and looking for the next paycheck.
Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that a violation has occurred, the Attorney General, for or in the name of the United States, may in a civil action obtain appropriate equitable and declaratory relief to eliminate the pattern or practice.
Types of misconduct covered include, among other things: Excessive Force, Discriminatory Harassment, False Arrest, Coercive Sexual Conduct, Unlawful Stops, Searches, or Arrests. And only if he feels that there’s a violation. “IF” is the Word.
Now you can understand why them cocaine head are sitting in the captain chair, Snorting 60 million worth of cocaine. How is probably the first time he’s had any kind of money in his pocket since he came across the border.
Hell I was told that’s the only place that will not educate a human being across the border.
What they didn’t find in the train derailment on the 25 and 2020 out there in between Palm Springs and Blythe they all died in the boat explosion in Cancun Sea. 2020
And here’s another family member.
Firefighters also located one victim of the blaze, an elderly man, inside the home. Neighbors identified him as Will Rothschild, hailing from the wealthy Rothschild family. Law enforcement is yet to confirm his identity, reported ABC7 News.
Time 55 LAPD Locations & 54 Los Angeles Sheriff Department’s Times 109 Cities in the County!
10.424 Trillion Dollars A Year Times 109 Department’s
Equals out to. 1133 Trillion Dollars A Year just for Law Enforcement in Los Angeles County! 1133 times 5,000 Counties in the United States of America for a total for an idiot is $5.665E14
We don’t have the ability to make $21 an hour .
I make 30 cents a day.
They make $300.00 Hour
Who the Drug Dealers????
And now Cher’s Whole Family has been confirmed!
Dead by Boat Sanking in Cancun in 2020
As Well as Every Celebrity in the World Are Dead.
At some point you have to understand you’ve been brainwashed for this this long up to this point because of the fact that the world has to destroy the nation long before it can do anything in the world because this used to be the United States of America the land of the brave and the home of the free. And 1855, the British sacked the White House and burnt it to the fucking ground and America was lost at that point because it became the Land of the Dead in the home of the corruption. Where I feel that we can all learn from my mistakes to set the better path forward as the global Federation of many nations of many galaxies. Where we learn from our past mistakes so we don’t have to get burnt for them
You say that Diddy has an accomplice!
Anyone would want to understand with that many bottles of baby oil with DMT in it is an accomplice.! Then you have to understand what the DMT and all the hypnosis that was being played on the music box inside of his house for all the FBI agents to come in there with no rubber gloves on pick up all the rubber dildos and play with them for hours on hours with DMT all over the dildos and baby oil take them back to the lab and everything and try to figure out what they’re going to do and the brainwashing from the hypnosis that they were listening to inside the house told him to go out there and get Nathan Hochman ( LA’s district DA ! ) and everybody else in Los Angeles that was involved in the George Garson trial so that he could become the representation for India. But how the judge lost your head from Nathan Hochman chopping it off out there but yet nobody’s going to pay attention to the TV ads about how elect Nathan Hochman for deputy da right for Los Angeles County huh where you going to find his body man when you going to bring it up there. And then you got a nude oversized fat Donald Trump sitting out there in the old tall with nothing on how that’s planning obvious that they already shot him down there at Del Mar in largo, Florida. Now all they do is put a coffin around this fat ass and this is what happens to politics that fuck over the company. But how Puff Daddy’s biggest fucking problem is and this is the only problem his hatred for another man to get to something before his tired ass drug dealing junky ass had to get to it he’s also the one that Shoved the crack pipe down her throat and caused her death but how you’re going to stand up for the crack dealer right and you wonder why all the celebrities are dead because you had the crack dealer running house to house to get all the secrets right because he had to sell his dope man but any Gangster would never let nobody see it on TV man you got to keep that shit secret you can’t spread this shit around man every brother knew it was a dope being junkie man selling his dope but y’all bought his shit and he slaughtered every one of your children! How didn’t share and Lady Gaga live in the same building with Justin Bieber and everybody else where has everybody went to that used to live in that building and why have they been missing for 10 years now. Because with a bottle of DMT, Some hypnosis music, you’ll be brainwashed to do absolutely fucking nothing for the rest of your life.