The case against Pamela Price can be summed up in this blurb from an article in Commentary, a neo-conservative online publication:
As California’s Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price told a local CBS News reporter, “often what studies have shown—and it’s true in Alameda County—many times people who are perpetrators or labeled as perpetrators were actually victims.” Price recently gave an 18-year-old linked to three murders a plea deal that would have had him serve only a handful of years in juvenile detention due to the fact that the killings had been committed when he was younger—even though a judge urged that he be tried as an adult given his “extensive and violent criminal history in multiple jurisdictions.” A leaked memo revealed that Price had told prosecutors in her office to seek probation rather than jail time for most crimes, including violent felonies.
There it is: the criminal as victim. That’s the heart of what normal people find so offensive in Price’s woke version of justice. Price turns reality on its head: if you’re young and Black and you kill three people, it must have been because “society” inflicted “structural racism” on you, and so your sentence must be as lenient as possible. Price feels sorrier for the murderer than for his victims. And the rule of law suffers another body blow.
This is why so many career prosecutors have quit Price’s office since she took over a mere nine months ago. According to one of them, Butch Ford, an Assistant D.A. whom Price fired, Price “demoted almost every Caucasian male in the office and stated, ‘the Blacks are taking over.’” Price clearly has anger issues. But Justice, let’s remember, is blind—or is supposed to be. Jurors are instructed to put aside any personal feelings they may have towards defendants or victims, and to consider evidence only on its merits. Price, however, cannot put aside her personal resentments, which have been formed over many years and have now calcified into detritus that prohibits her from rational thinking. “The Blacks are taking over”…this revenge fantasy is clearly crazy and inappropriate, especially coming from a D.A., but one can easily imagine Price saying it.
The upshot of Price’s benign attitude toward crime is, naturally, that criminals are feeling emboldened, knowing that the D.A. has their backs. Ford, the fired prosecutor, recalled that, at a rally Price attended, “a recently paroled killer stated, ‘We gettin’ out left and right. We can do whatever the f—k we want out here.’” That triumphant attitude is prevalent everywhere on the streets. Yesterday, walking along Webster Street in brilliant early afternoon sunshine, with plenty of people coming and going, I came across a young man who smashed the window of a Mini-Cooper, grabbed some packages from the back seat, and sped off in his own car. All the pedestrians saw what he did. He didn’t care. He knew two things: that nobody would stop him, and that even if he were arrested, the new D.A. in town would go soft on him. Under the circumstances, why not smash and grab?
It’s vital, as the Recall Price movement now begins gathering signatures, for us all to keep repeating this message: Price is letting violent thugs go free due to her racism. Price is endangering every one of us, and in the process is taking a wrecking ball to the Constitution and to every law that has ever been passed to make society safe. She’s doing this consciously and deliberately; after having waited her entire life to wreak vengeance on the country that succored her, she’s now achieved a little bit of power, and she’s determined to abuse that power for as long as she can.
Look for Recall signature gatherers in the coming weeks. The process is getting off to a slow start, but it will pick up steam. The Recall website posted this update: Save Alameda For Everyone (SAFE) announced on September 28, 2023 that we have officially been green lighted to collect signatures to RECALL District Attorney Pamela Price! We have 160 days, until March 5, 2024 to submit 73,195 signatures to qualify the recall for the ballot. Then, the people of Alameda County will have the power to vote DA Price from office.
If we can do this—fire Price—it will capture the attention of the entire country and galvanize the great majority of Americans who are sick and tired of wokeness but aren’t quite sure what to do about it. We have an answer for them: organize.
Steve Heimoff