Let’s talk about Oakland, California’s embattled District Attorney, Pamela Price. Another in a long list of Soros-backed top prosecutors in the United States who have made it their mission, it seems, to destroy America’s cities and diminish the quality of life of the law-abiding public.
There is a recall effort against Price in the wake of rising crime in Alameda County and Oakland in particular. Violent crime and property offenses skyrocketed in 2023 as Oakland’s DA pursues “equity” over justice by failing to prosecute offenders and avoiding prison sentences. Price famously waited an hour for police to show up when her laptop was stolen after someone broke into her car while it was parked outside the Alameda County Family Justice Center. When police never showed, she filed a report online.
Embarrassingly, even California’s social justice warrior Governor Gavin Newsom felt compelled to send 120 state troopers and several state prosecutors into Oakland to help keep a lid on the problem. The governor’s office said, in part, “[a]n arrest is not enough. Justice demands that suspects are appropriately prosecuted. Whether it’s ‘bipping’ or carjacking, attempted murder or fentanyl trafficking, individuals must be held accountable for their crimes using the full and appropriate weight of the law.”
Price’s tenure has been an obvious disaster to any thinking person with eyes and a sixth grade education. When elected she set out to address “racial and gender and economic disparities” in the criminal justice system, pledging to “bring balance back to sentencing and reduce recidivism.” Amid her philosophical bloviating, regurgitating what she no doubt “learned” at Yale and Berkley, she neglected her mandate to — stay with me now — prosecute criminals and serve justice. Scores of prosecutors have left since her election in what has been an epic loss for the law-abiding people of Alameda County.
Price, a political activist pretending to be a prosecutor, joins a chorus of other California prosecutors facing recall efforts. How many more need to die, be assaulted, have their property stolen or damaged, and live in fear before we abandon this social experiment? The lives of Americans should not to be subjected to the whims of socials activists set out to usurp the reins of officialdom.
We’ve seen this phenomenon across the United States, from Larry Krasner in Philadelphia and Alvin Bragg in New York, to George Gascon in Los Angeles, Kim Gardner in St. Louis, and Chesa Boudin in San Francisco. Most Americans typically don’t think about their district attorneys — the vast majority of whom are elected. They are, in some sense, political offices, given they are accountable to the electorate like mayors, legislators, and governors. However, a district attorney is different. His mandate is unlike that of other elected officials. He is a minister of justice. A fiduciary of the public’s safety — and wields the sword of state in the name of the people and the rule of law.
Sadly, dark forces have engineered a perversion of prosecutors’ offices across this country. There is hope, however, as Americans push back and demand that their elected district attorneys execute their official mandates. Perhaps Pamela Price and her ilk should look to other repositories for their personal political musings. Maybe a journal — or a blog!
John Q. Prosecutor