The criminal justice system has had a horrible impact on people of color in this country, especially African Americans, for generations, if all prosecutors took race out of the picture when making charging decisions, we would probably be in a much better place as a nation than we are today.

George Gascon

George Gascón (born 1954) is the District Attorney of San Francisco. Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed him to that post on January 9, 2011, to succeed Kamala Harris, who had been elected California Attorney General in November 2010. In November 2011, George Gascón was elected as District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco after winning more than 62% of the vote in the third round of San Francisco's Instant-runoff voting poll.

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