The Los Angeles Police Protective League is criticizing plans from the city's new district attorney to halt death penalty prosecutions and reduce cash bail cases as "disastrous." LA County District Attorney George Gascón took the helm of the nation's largest prosecution office Monday and unveiled an ambitious agenda that includes the end of cash bail for many offenses, not seeking the death penalty and the refusal to pursue charges for certain crimes. "As homicides, shooting victims, and shots fired into occupied homes soar in Los Angeles, it's disturbing that Gascon's first act in office is to explore every avenue possible to release from jail those responsible for this bloodshed," the LA police union's board of directors said in a.
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