(14 Nov 2024)
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Los Angeles – 13 November 2024
1. Incoming Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman walks into his law offices
2. A skyline view outside the window of Hochman’s law office
3. Hochman sits down for the interview
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nathan Hochman, incoming District Attorney of Los Angeles:
"Day one is one of those days you kind of dream about- in fact you should dream about- if you ever want to run for one of these offices. So on my day one, unlike my predecessor, I hope to have victim groups that have been abandoned over the last three and a half years right there with me, understanding that the DA’s office will be, again, the champion for victims."
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Redondo Beach, California – 13 November 2024
5. Various of Hochman observing an outdoor "homeless court" proceedings
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles – 13 November 2024
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nathan Hochman, incoming District Attorney of Los Angeles:
"And then I want to send a message to criminals that basically the lines will be enforced again. They will be done in a proportional way. A common sense way. A way that rejects extremes: both the extreme that we’ve been living with of decarceration, which says that certain crimes and certain criminals will not be prosecuted no matter what the facts and the law are- as well as the extremes of mass incarceration. I reject both extremes."
7. CLOSE-UP of Hochman’s hands
8. CLOSE-UP of Hochman’s yellow ribbon lapel pin
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nathan Hochman, incoming District Attorney of Los Angeles:
"And we will try to bring proportional and common sense justice to both the victims that have suffered and to the people who have committed these type of offenses. To try, in many cases, to get them the help that they need to ensure that they won’t be back in the criminal justice system."
10. Hochman poses in his office
STORYLINE:
A hard middle approach. Proportional and common sense justice. Rejecting extremes.
These are the themes that incoming Los Angeles County district attorney Nathan Hochman campaigned on when he was running to be top prosecutor in the nation’s most populous county of 10 million, and he plans to make good on his promises.
His victory last Tuesday reflected growing discontent in the state with progressive district attorneys who have pushed criminal justice reform as he unseated incumbent George Gascón, known as the godfather of progressive prosecutors.
On day one, he plans to eliminate “pro-criminal blanket policies," bringing back gang-related sentencing enhancements, allowing prosecutors to bring juvenile charges more freely, and having prosecutors attend parole hearings with victims’ families again.
But Hochman, a former Republican who ran as an independent this election, says he’s also open to non-carceral solutions and alternatives to the criminal justice system.
With a little over two weeks left before being sworn into office and taking over a department of more than 700 prosecutors across the county, Hochman spent a Wednesday morning in Hermosa Beach observing “homeless court."
The program, which began in the coastal city of Redondo Beach south of Los Angeles, gives people experiencing homelessness the opportunity to avoid prosecution for nonviolent misdemeanor charges or municipal code violations in exchange for accepting judge-mandated services that can eventually lead to placement in housing.
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