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Sheriff Villanueva is doing the Lord’s work in Los Angeles County. A County and state where actual work by elected officials has all but been abandoned. We have the Mayor of its most populous city, who long ago abdicated his duties, now escaping them permanently to take an ambassadorship. We have a city council with several members trying to take that mayoral spot with nothing to show for their record except crime-ridden districts and craven ambition. And you have a County Board of Supervisors who are trying to get to their next high-paying political appointment and get as many kickbacks as they can along the way.
Summary:
In the first four months of 2021, the District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges on 537 Santa Clarita Valley criminal cases already 156% of the total number of declined cases for the entire previous year. If the trend holds for the rest of the year, it will represent a 369% increase in rejected cases. Of those rejected cases, 60% are the result of new policy directives by L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón, fueling concerns among some government leaders that Gascón’s plan to reform the system is threatening public safety.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies had already arrested 25-year-old Alfredo Alvarez, of Newhall, 11 times in the previous 12 months, before he was accused of helping someone he’d just met outside of jail with another allegation. According to witnesses, Alvarez was a lookout as his alleged accomplice pulled a knife on two diners and demanded their cellphones in front of the county’s oldest restaurant, the Saugus Cafe