LOS ANGELES – Candidate for Los Angeles County District Attorney John McKinney recently sat down with the California Globe to share his unique background, history of public service, and his position on Los Angeles County’s zero-bail policy.
Excerpt as seen in the California Globe
By Thomas Buckely
John McKinney knows temptation.
Before becoming a lawyer, before rising through the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office to a position as deputy district attorney in Major Crimes (he successfully prosecuted the murderer of rapper Nipsey Hussle,) he was just another kid in Passaic, NJ trying to figure out which way to turn.
Thanks to his upbringing – his older sister raised him after his parents’ death – he chose work and school and not crack and bling.
That’s why he is running for district attorney – that and the fact that George Gascon is a menace to the community.
“Gascon has a fundamental misunderstanding of the criminal justice system,” McKinney said. “The state of public safety is of deep concern and we need a dramatic change in policy and direction.”
An example of Gascon’s ideologically-driven cluelessness were the “day one” policy directives –unethical in many cases, hence their being rolled back as a result of lawsuits. Not only were they improper, Gascon imposed them without consulting anyone in the DA’s office and, more troublingly, McKinney said “the public defender’s office had copies of them before we did.”
“Gascon has asked us to minimize criminal conduct and it continues to this day,” McKinney said. “And he has stopped informing crime victims of upcoming parole dates (of the offender.) He wants as many people out of jail as possible.” …
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