Advertisement Prosecutors assigned to the new unit will focus on areas that the Los Angeles Police Department has determined to be “violence prone,” starting with the Foothill, 77th Street and Newton divisions, according to the memo and a news release Gascón issued Tuesday. Representatives for the LAPD did not respond to multiple requests for comment. “Unless we have a community-based solution to the problem, we’re not going to create a sustainable answer,” Gascón said during a news conference earlier this month, adding that the new unit will shift away from a “purely prosecutorial model.” Gascón and others have touted the move as part of a broader cultural shift that will lead the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office to put as much effort into rehabilitation and crime prevention as it does toward punishment. But some of Gascón’s own line prosecutors have questioned the timing and execution of the move.