DSA Darling Bullets Healdine
Raman has voted numerous times to allow dangerous homeless encampments next to schools, parks, libraries and day-care centers.
Gang, Gun Charges Plummet Under DA Gascon. Making LA neighborhoods less safe.
Raman advocates for the decriminalization of “quality of life” crimes and wants the county to depopulate its jails.
Nithya Raman is a dues paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, DSA-LA and George Gascon is supported by the DSA-LA.
The DSA Political Platform calls for:
Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero
End investment in police training or facility renovations
End all misdemeanor offenses…and cut funding to prosecutor’s offices
Close local jails
Reject “alternatives to incarceration” that are carceral in nature, including problem-solving courts and electronic monitoring and coercive restorative justice programs
Free all people from involuntary confinement
Disarm law enforcement officers, including the police and private security
Repeal local ordinances that criminalize people involved in the sex trades, drug trades, and street economies; that criminalize homelessness; and that criminalize squatting and other productive occupation of unused housing
End the repression of sex workers and fully decriminalize sex work nationwide
Repeal FOSTA/SESTA
Immediately withdraw from NATO
Discontinue US support of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people, including an end to all military aid...
Close all US foreign military bases
