Gascón Recall Failure Means Crime Must Get Worse in LA Before It Gets Better

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón speaks at a press conference in Los Angeles, on Dec. 8, 2021. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

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Despite Los Angeles’s worsening crime problem, the effort to oust District Attorney George Gascón, the architect of the soft-on-crime policies that are causing it, has failed. Incredibly, organizers collected more than 700,000 signatures, yet came up 46,000 short of the number necessary to put the recall on the November ballot.