Democrat Pamela Price is running for District Attorney in Alameda County just a year after voters ousted her from the same position in a landslide.
Price made the announcement Thursday claiming she was running again because of the Trump administration’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids taking place throughout California, CBS News reported. Voters recalled the Democrat from her post as the deep blue county’s top prosecutor by a 26-point margin in November 2024, after many alleged her policies allowed crime to intensify.
“I would say to ICE and any other federal agency who violate state law, f around and find out,” Price said at a press conference, according to CBS News. “No one is above the law and I will stand for firmness in every case and fairness. Real justice applies to everyone. Just cannot be bought by billionaires.”
Price is among a number of Democratic prosecutorial candidates across the country who have received campaign contributions from political action committees (PACs) linked to left-wing billionaire George Soros, the Capital Research Center reported in 2022.
Oakland, the largest city in Alameda County, saw the highest number of homicides in a decade during Price’s term, reaching 126 in 2023, alongside 119 murders.
Violent crime plummeted nearly the moment Price left office and was succeeded by District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson. Homicides went down 21%, robberies dropped 42%, rapes fell 22% and aggravated assaults fell 11% under Jones Dickson’s leadership, according to Save Alameda For Everyone (SAFE AC), a public safety and victim’s support organization based in Alameda County.
SAFE AC called Price’s attempted comeback “an insult to victims, a threat to public safety, and a delusional bid to reclaim power she abused,” in a press release.
In addition to skyrocketing crime, Price’s leadership drove career prosecutors to resign, citing misconduct, retaliation, political interference and a hardline refusal to prosecute violent and repeat offenders. The Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association voted overwhelmingly to remove Price from her office in June 2024, five months before 63% of voters approved her recall.
“Our support for the recall reflects the unfair and hostile work conditions that we face everyday, as we try in good faith to implement the policy directives that Pamela Price has created,” the union email announcing the voting results reads.
Prosecutors were mandated to hand out minimum sentences and offer probation above all else, driving Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom to send state officers and attorneys to the Bay Area county in 2024 in an effort to alleviate the crime spree fueled by Price’s policies.
“We are standing here before you today in love,” Price said in her Thursday press conference. “Out of our love for our community. Our love for our families. A love for justice.”
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