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Op-ed: A poll to fit a narrative

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By Association of Deputy District Attorneys

Californians for Safety and Justice, an organization whose mission is to “reform” the criminal justice system, released a push-poll of 724 crime survivors from Los Angeles County. Not surprisingly, the results reflected the desired outcome of the organization.

Good science requires the careful collection of data. Survey best practices state that questions asked to participants should not be confusing, leading, or double-barreled.

This poll violated all three cardinal rules. Instead, it used partisan techniques under the guise of conducting an opinion poll. It is sad to see that those interest groups seeking to conduct reckless experiments on our criminal justice system are also manipulating crime victims to further their cause.

Despite the problems with the survey itself, the most disturbing data from it is the number of Angelenos who had to endure violent crime. The survey contacted 2,000 adults and found that 36 percent of them were victims of violent crime. Los Angeles deserves better.

About the author: The Association of Deputy District Attorneys (ADDA) is the collective bargaining agent and represents over 800 Deputy District Attorneys who work for the County of Los Angeles.

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17 comments for "Op-ed: A poll to fit a narrative"

  1. There are plenty of dunce caps to go around to place on the heads of both political parties. Dunces that are bringing this nation down using violence and deception, and people justifying their actions by putting a label on it.

    • The Newsom lock-downs left our state economy a shambles. Homeless encampments everywhere, drug abuse off the charts, crime skyrocketing, illegal immigration fueling and revitalizing urban street gangs, traffic is a nightmare, liberal environmentalist policy fueling record wildfires, California is governed by a political asylum of whacked-out lunatic democrats, like this George Gascon fellow.

  2. My Hubby gonna get out finally thanks to Gascon. Thank you Jesus! This is the right thing to do! He made a mistake and sentenced 15 years when most he should be serving 2 years. Lesson learned he got caught all good we get it but 15 years is crazy and cruel and unusual punishment. The motion has been filed and will get approved and my boy gonna get released soon. Thank you Jesus thank you To the new DA office thank you Lancaster!

    • Oh my.

      Please tell everyone you live somewhere other than the AV. We don’t exactly need another banger released from prision to do more crime up here.

      Garcon has to go!

      • I moved here to Lancaster from LA two years ago after my husband was moved from Chino to Lancaster prison so I can be close to him. We staying up here it’s more affordable then LA and my 3 boys are fitting right in and like it much more here. We not bangers

      • Some sort of Felony with enhancements.

        This convicted Felon and his wife are hoping that Garcon’s “get out of jail” card for enhancements will free him. Hopefully the recall will stop this sort of nonsense ifull stop. Actually the recall will stop the move to release convicted felons for a while as the recall goes on, Garcon is a fool but not completely stupid.

        • A recall merely forces an election. It does not directly affect policy. It does not remove Gascone or Newsom from office.

  4. Intellectual frauds, attorneys are selfish, greedy, arrogant and insensitive.

    A lawyer is no more a scholar, than an accountant. Unlike Historians, Economists, Geographers, Physicists, Biologists, Geologists, and Chemists, Law is not (NOT) a scholastic discipline. Nor is law a STEM discipline.

    No math prerequisite beyond a passing grade in college algebra for a juris doctorate, no attorney in the Milky Way Galaxy boasts qualifications sufficient to teach demography, spatial analysis, economic measurement, mathematics, much less statistics, at 100 series level. A bastion for students with math phobias, no attorney who ever lived attempted, much less passed, all three semesters of college freshman math analysis (e.g., calculus).

    No attorney on this planet boasts scholastic qualifications sufficient to dictate how surveys are properly conducted.

    • A master’s degree in any scholastic discipline is sufficient to lecture at 100 series level, in their discipline, at any accredited college, with one exception: statistics. To lecture in statistics on any college campus, requires a Ph.D. Nowhere is a Juris Doctorate sufficient to lecture outside jurisprudence, without a teaching credential. In the 3000 year history of higher education, going all the way back to the ancient Pythagoreans, no lawyer or politician has ever dared lecturing on statistics –

    • Professor Suad:

      You say: “no attorney who ever lived attempted, much less passed, all three semesters of college freshman math analysis (e.g., calculus).” I personally know several scientists who subsequently passed the bar. Their STEM GPA probably outpaces yours by a long margin.

    • If Lancaster is an example, attorneys make terrible mayors. That is probably too much of a generalization as there certainly are attorneys who do not think bird sounds lower crime, spend $10 million on a boondoggle spy airplane owned by a political cohort, suggest shooting the homeless if they try to rob you, or make up fake stories about sheriff deputies being shot by mentally ill people. When you think about it, there are not many people of any profession who do things like that.

      How did we get so lucky in Lancaster?

  5. Most of the people including myself that have been victims of violence don’t care what side you’re on or your political affiliation. It is a very personal issue for each person affected and leaves scars for a lifetime.

  6. A poll, 700 plus crime victims, it is what it is, nothing dishonest about it. Democrats prefer all surveys be slanted, skewed, normalized to validate their narrative:

    ANTIFA = summer of love

    Trump Rally – terrorism

    • No whining or complaining whatsoever, no opinion pieces, no white papers from the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, regarding the gross injustices of summer ANTIFA rioting. The Association of Deputy District Attorneys care more about an opinion poll, their lavish perks, their 6-figure incomes than they do, the taxpayers they were paid to represent.

  7. … there’s nothing wrong with a biased poll, so long as its disclosed as a biased poll –