District Attorney Pamela Price had her work laptop stolen during a brazen car burglary at 3 p.m. on Friday, multiple sources told ABC 7. Price is the top prosecutor in California’s Alameda County, home to Oakland and Berkeley.
Price, dubbed by local media as a far-Left “progressive D.A.,” unseated an incumbent in last year’s election. Her campaign accepted $134,745 in donations from a nonprofit funded entirely by billionaire George Soros, according to records reviewed by East Bay Express.
Ironically, Price had been attending an event at Oakland’s Family Justice Center. Her bodyguard reportedly parked the county’s $90,000 Chevrolet Tahoe, and he returned to find a window broken and a laptop missing.
Police told the outlet that multiple people had worked together to commit the burglary. They also said that Price waited an hour for police to arrive, only for her to give up and report the crime online later.
Price has become known for her permissive views on sentencing.
In a memo leaked in March, Price declared that, for any probation-eligible charge, probation “shall be the presumptive offer.” For all other crimes, Price supports offering the lowest sentencing possible, except in “extraordinary circumstances.” She wrote that, for crimes requiring a prison sentence, that sentence “shall be the low term.”
Price has defended her views on soft sentencing. In the memo, she described her probation directives as “presumptive, not mandatory.” She also encouraged her deputies to make exceptions for hate crimes and certain sex crimes, and she re-committed to her goal of reducing the likelihood of repeat offenses.
“I was elected to disrupt the system and transform the system,” she told the San Francisco Chronicle in January.
Historically, Price has refrained from commenting on internal matters. So, it remains unclear how her office will charge burglars… if they’re ever caught.
The Horn editorial team