EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles County's top prosecutor is reimagining, renaming and downsizing to eliminate a unit within his office that handles gang-related cases, sources told Fox News. The unit is slated to be "decentralized" under George Gascon's leadership, with a number of prosecutors in the Hardcore Gang unit expected to be transferred to other units. In a statement to FOX Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva called the move a "suicide pact." "While gang members are busy driving up LA County's homicide rate, DA Gascon is now dismantling the Hardcore Gang Unit that works with local law enforcement," he said. The Gang and Narcotics units have both been slashed in half," Los Angeles prosecutor Jonathan Hatami tweeted Wednesday."

Source: Fox News April 01, 2021 00:44 UTC