I am an attorney. I graduated from UC Berkeley Law School with honors. I also was a judicial extern for the Chief Judge, of the United States District Court, Central District of California, i.e., in Downtown LA.

Moreover, I am the only candidate with a Master’s Degree in Public Administration, which is what the District Attorney is – an administrator of a large County Department.

I pledge to be the District Attorney we all expect… “champion of the people, defender of the truth and guardian of our civil liberties.” It sounds simple enough, but the incumbent DA has failed us at each and every level.

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Hell yes, I want these dumb asses deported, if you are here being an idiot, I say “Hasta La Vista Baby.”

News Flash – If you are using a fake I.D. and social security number you are committing another crime.

When has the L.A. Mayor, Huizar, Reyes and Alarcon ever supported ANY type of immigration enorcement? When ICE/INS does it’s job these clowns are screaming about unfair and unjust immigration enforcement.

Reg is right again when he says

“seems more likely the result of a political agenda by folks who want the line between legal and illegal immigration to be declared nonexistent than a policy of respecting police professionalism and “best practices..”

Countries We have immigration laws for a reason.

But again, I must point out that there’s plenty of blame and lack of coordination to go around, extending first and foremost to the DA Steve Cooley’s office, by design, while he has the specific charge of prosecuting felonies and has by far the biggest, most highly paid staff to do it; then to the Sheriff’s Dept., INS/ICE, and on down the line. But the pressure they feel (especially Baca and ICE, Cooley doesn’t care what they think) from our local leadership and LAPD Brass to butt out of L A’s affairs when it comes to prosecuting and deporting illegal criminals, has a chilling effect on efforts to coordinate databases and enforcement.

And at least some of this discourse does seem to be related to the fact that there are groups involved with an agenda that demands that any and all questions about illegal immigration status not ever be part of a police investigation prior to actual arrest and incarceration. I totally understand why police shouldn’t put a priority on enforcing immigration law, but to take any such questions off the table totally in pursuit of criminal suspects – or forbid using immigration enforcement against known suspects – especially serial suspects who it’s hard to make a case against – makes zero sense. This kind of wall around a single category of law – which IMHO SHOULD be subject to an explicit policy of very discretionary enforcement by local police, including giving a pass to likely gang members who aren’t suspected of any particular crimes – seems more likely the result of a political agenda by folks who want the line between legal and illegal immigration to be declared nonexistent than a policy of respecting police professionalism and “best practices.”

If you have two kids fighting, what do you do? Well, if they won’t quit fighting and they won’t make up, you separate them. How do you separate gangs? Well, don’t allow trouble makers from another country into this country and don’t allow them to stay here if they sneak in.

Oh, I’m sorry. That’s hijackinig the conversation.

Celeste, you care for people so much that you won’t suggest cures that might offend them. That distracts from finding a solution and makes you no help.

I’ll say it once again: Gang members—-or anyone else for that matter—who are convicted of most any felony (and certainly anything gun-related) face mandatory deportation according to federal law. Their status is supposed to be determined when they are in jail.

So why was Pedro Espinoza not deported? You tell me. It has zero to do with SO 40.

News flash: being a gang member is not a crime. Committing crimes makes you a criminal. Dressing a certain way and hanging out with the wrong people does not. So do I want the police tasked with monitoring the immigration status of the hangers on, the wannabes, and the young men who ought to have better taste in friends, and targeting them for deportation?

No I do not. If you’re going that route, at least be honest about it and say you want to wipe S.O. 40 altogether.

But personally, the last thing I want my overstressed police force to be doing is chasing after non-criminal, undocumented gang members. We think we’ve got a bad response time now….pass some damn fool law like that and see what you get.

I’m sick to death of the rhetoric on this. Deport criminals. Please. Nobody’s stopping anybody from doing that. And if those who run the LA County jails and ICE are NOT deporting convicted criminals without papers, they’re not doing their jobs. Focus your attention on them, not on those of us who want a consistent, rational, practical gang policy.

PS: And, yes, of course, there are race-related gang murders where people are targeted solely because of the color of their skin. 14 year-old Cheryl Green is the perfect terrible example. Or Anthony Prudhomme, who wrote lovely poetry. Or Christopher Bowser who was shot in December of 2000 while waiting for the bus, two weeks before Christmas. But let’s call those race-based murders for what they are and not incorrectly label those that are not.

Oh, yeah, and the shooters who killed all of the people listed above were U.S. citizens.

Thanks for commmenting, LR, but this stuff makes me nuts.

He prefers to blame Sheriff Baca for this failure, when Baca doesn’t have the investigators devoted to this, and ICE has only two investigators assigned to all the county jails. Between then, they missed Espinoza, took his WORD that he was born in the U.S., and released him — when he was on LAPD’s list, but that was kept from these other law enforcement agencies. Sure SP40 and local political pandering are to blame for the illegal gang problem, but so is the DA — he’s almost worse, because he won’t even admit his duplicity, and claims to be tough on crime while doing just the opposite. He claims that as a Republican, he’s not part of the “City Hall clique,” but he’s allegedly even worse, taking his orders from the criminal defense attorneys who represent some top revenue generators for the Mex. Cartels.

Instead, he pulls DA’s OFF cases when they get too close, especially to high-profile known criminals like the officials in Bell, Cudahy, HG, etc., known to be on the payroll of the Mexican Drug Cartels — a group he’d promised to prosecute if elected over Gil Garcetti.

Ch. 36 aired a two-part, one-hour interview with Ipsen and Robles Monday night on “Full Disclosure,” hosted by Leslie Dutton (who claims Cooley sent his thugs to intimidate her into not documenting the recent Gang Summit hosted by Bratton and attended by law enforcement from across the western Hemisphere, incl. Baca, the CA, etc., but snubbed by him).

See http://www.fulldisclosure.net for interview excerpts.

The Mayor and police Chief ignore the racial violence by latino gangs in Los Angeles; there have been many racially motivated murders and attempted murders. Remember Avenues gang, Florencia gang, 204st Harbor Gateway gang, and murders in Hawaiian Gardens, San Fernando, Valley and Monrovia? The mayor wants to hire more and more cops, while at the same time expecting cops to ignore the fact that a large percentage of gang members are illegal aliens.