I will ensure ALL residents of Los Angeles have fair and equal access to justice with an emphasis on protecting victims, children, and families and promise a fair and balanced approach to public safety.

I believe in reforms, rehabilitation and second chances. However, we must first and always follow the law. We must balance reforms with public safety and protecting our most vulnerable.

True justice and equity means making the right decisions for the right reasons for each individual case. Reform is not just a word or a phrase to me, it is actual and real.

I have done plea agreements in order to help others who could have been deported from this country. I have worked with defendants who have drug and alcohol issues. I have decided to have juveniles in very serious cases stay in juvenile court so they could be rehabilitated instead of adult court.

I have done the work. I don’t just talk about it.

I believe in law and justice above all else. My administration will always be open and honest. We will always work with the Board of Supervisors, our law enforcement partners, community members and groups, Deputy District Attorneys that may have a different opinion, and local elected officials in order to foster a teamwork approach to public safety.

We will always properly staff and support our Public Integrity Unit and Justice System Integrity Unit (which prosecutes law enforcement crime) within the DA’s office.

We will hold anyone who commits a crime, no matter a Republican or Democrat, elected official or not, rich or poor, media case or not, police officer or not, friend or not, accountable.

We will work and collaborate with local elected state assembly members and senators to draft, pass and implement laws which protect the public, families and children and help all of our communities.

This is The People’s Office. We will work for you.

I believe in less micromanaging and more working together with judges and defense attorneys to get the right result for each individual case. No stringent law and order dispositions but also no dangerous blanket policies. Every decision and action must be guided by public safety. I’m not soft on crime or tough on crime. I’m smart on crime.

• • Support and Institute Mental Health Courts for non-violent defendants
  • Support and Institute Drug & Alcohol Disease Courts for non-violent defendants
  • Support and Institute Veteran’s Courts for non-violent defendants
  • Support and Institute Unhouses Courts for non-violent defendants

Establish a unit to work directly with the DEA and local law enforcement that specifically handles and charges fentanyl dealers and fentanyl deaths. If we have the evidence, we will charge fentanyl dealers who are killing our loved ones to the fullest extent of the law.

Cross deputize and cross train our District Attorney Investigators with the DEA to allow more successful investigation and prosecution of fentanyl dealers in order to protect our children and vulnerable communities.

In addition, we will work with the community in establishing in-patient treatment facilities for anyone addicted to fentanyl. We are after the dealers, not the users. 

I support thoughtful and caring treatment of addiction, not open use facilities.

Establish a unit to work directly with the CHP and local law enforcement that specifically handles and charges persons killing others at street takeovers. If we have the evidence, we will charge street takeover murderers who are killing our loved ones to the fullest extent of the law.

We will also seek to charge anyone organizing these street takeovers.

In addition, we will work with the community in establishing rehabilitative avenues for juveniles involved in street takeovers. Let’s prevent these deaths before they happen and give children safe avenues instead of dangerous street takeovers.

Day 1 of my administration, I will remove every single blanket policy George Gascon has implemented and start enforcing all gun violence allegations and enhancements. I will strengthen efforts to keep guns away from children and prosecute offenders of gun violence with existing laws.

As one of the very few prosecutors that has filed and argued a Pitchess motion against law enforcement, I have actually held law enforcement to answer for their actions.

I have fought for police accountability in my personal life in 2011, when my own mom was run over by an off-duty – under the influence – law enforcement officer. I have held the police accountable in Gabriel’s case and in Anthony’s case. I believe we must hold bad police officers to the same legal standards as the general public.

As your District Attorney, I will hold the police accountable for criminal actions and abuse of authority.

Many depend on Metro buses and trains to go to work and school, and should be able to use our public transportation without being attacked or harassed. Day 1 of my administration, I will create a task force to aggressively start prosecuting crime on Metro. I will meet with our law enforcement partners and Metro to implement crime suppression strategies. We all have a right to safe public transportation in Los Angeles. As District Attorney, your safety and the safety of our families will be my top priority.

I will assign a DDA liaison, who lives in each of the 88 cities, to meet with their respective city council members once a month. The DDA community representative will then report back to the DA what public safety issues are affecting each individual city and their community. I will then implement policies and strategies to help promote public safety for each specific community within LA County.