‘s woke DA George Gascón has been forced to apologize to the city’s cops after likening one to a pig during a fraught press conference.

Gascon was referring to L.A.Sheriff Alex Villanuevas during a Wednesday question and answer session, when he responded to criticism made by the cop with: ‘My dad used to say that when you wrestle with a pig, you both get muddy and the pig likes it,’ Gascón said at a 90-minute Wednesday press conference before quickly adding, ‘and that’s not pig in terms of using the term as law enforcement.’

But his clarification was met with some skepticism, amid anger over the DA’s woke policies which critics say have made cops’ jobs much harder.  

Since Gascón took office a year ago, Villanuevas been critical of his approach to , calling his time in office ‘God awful.’ But, as he attributed the perception of rising crime in the city to ‘fear mongering and misinformation. 

But crime is on the upswing, according to police statistics.Homicides are up by 46 percent, car thefts are up 53 percent and shootings have risen by a staggering 51 percent in Los Angeles compared with the same time frame through November 27 of 2019. 

Gascon also pushed for softer sentenced for gun offenders, sending out a fundraising email on the very same day music industry boss Clarence Avant’s 81 year-old wife Jacqueline was shot dead by a home invader at their Beverly Hills mansion. 

However, property crime has decreased by 6.6 percent, robberies are down 13.6 percent and burglary has decreased by 7.7 in 2021 as compared to 2019.

 ‘It’s not a question of whether I assume responsibility or not.I readily would if I thought there was a correlation,’ Gascón said Wednesday, flanked by Cook County, Illinois, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, whose area of jurisdiction just surpassed 1,000 homicides this year, and Suffolk County, Massachusetts, District Attorney Rachael Rollins.

Foxx was also linked to the Jussie Smollett case after trying to persuade the FBI to take over the probe into his January 2019 hate attack, which Smollett was convicted of faking on Thursday. 

‘The reality is that we go through these cycles, and we go through the cycles for a variety of reasons … In many ways we cannot prosecute our way out of social inequalities, income inequalities, the unhoused, the desperation that we have,’ Gascón said.   

Villanueva has been particularly critical of Proposition 47, which reduces many crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.       

Maynor, 29, was arraigned on Tuesday.Avant was killed while her 90 year-old husband, legendary music producer Clarence Avant, was at home but was not injured. 

Maynor, who has a lengthy criminal record, is also charged with the attempted murder of the Avants’ security guard, whom he allegedly shot at during the December 1 robbery but did not wound.

‘Mrs.Avant was a treasured member of our community. Her generosity and goodwill touched so many lives,’ Gascon said in a news release. 

Gascon has advocated against sentence enhancements for using a gun, belonging to a gang, and causing great bodily injury. 

Prosecutor Eric Siddall was among those infuriated by the timing of Gascon’s fundraising email.  

‘After a year of record homicides, smash-and-grab robberies and the day of the callous murder of an 81-year-old woman in her own home, George Gascon sent a letter to his supporters asking for money to further his efforts to eliminate our ability to prosecute crime and protect the public,’ he told the Washington Examiner. 

Siddall is the vice president of Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys, an organization representing roughly 1,000  County prosecutors. 

Siddall told FOX on Monday that Gascon had ‘created an atmosphere devoid of accountability,’ as organized groups of thieves continue to terrorize LA, brazenly looting retail stores for thousands of dollars-worth of goods, often in front of customers and staff.

Merely hours after Avant’s death in her $7 million Beverly Hills mansion, Gascon, who has been criticized for being ‘soft on crime’ and supporting the zero-bail policy, sent a fundraising email to promote a bill removing extra prison time for using a gun during a crime.   

Shocking photos obtained by DailyMail.com show the musician’s decimated sliding glass doors, though police pointedly declined to confirm that robbery was the suspected motive, saying all possibilities are under consideration.

Law enforcement sources told the LA Times that at least one burglar made it into the mansion before Jacqueline was killed.     

‘If you don’t have time to read it, here’s a quick ask: we’re just weeks away from our $75,000 End-of-Year goal and we’ve still got 20% left to rise.Can you chip in a donation today to fund our community outreach efforts?’ the email read, according to . 

It continued: ‘More than 80 percent of people serving time in California state prisons have had sentence enhancements applied to their time served…sentence enhancements have never been shown to reduce the rate of crime, and excessive sentence enhancements can actually drive up reoffense.’

The email, with does a diaper bag count as a carry on subject that said ‘We’ve got to reform outdated sentence enhancement policies,’ was branded ‘tone-deaf’ by Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. 

‘I don’t think you can begin to explain this one,’ Villanueva told the Examiner. 

‘That is amazing but not surprising at the same time.He is trying to nullify the legislative intent, and he is undermining the entire system and not reforming it.’ 

‘Reckless, feckless, crass are some of the more charitable words that come to mind,’ Siddall said about Gascon’s email.   

Gascon has faced rampant criticism since assuming office last year over his progressive policies – such as allowing suspects to go free as they await their day in court. 

The message went on to say that sentence enhancements have disproportionately impacted sentencing for people of color.

Gascon, one of many ‘woke’ DAs bankrolled by billionaire Democrat donor George Soros, has survived one recall effort and faces another that was launched Monday. 

Gascon’s silence in the face of the lawlessness has only infuriated his critics. 

Last week, LA police arrested 14 suspects alleged to have been involved in 11 recent smash-and-grab robberies at stores last month, where nearly $340,000 worth of merchandise was stolen in strikes on an LA Nordstrom, a Lululemon in Studio City, a Fairfax district store, and a CVS pharmacy in South LA. 

However, due to city’s zero-bail policies, the suspects were all released within hours of being handcuffed and are currently walking the streets while they wait for their cases to go to court.  

‘If you look at the 14 people arrested, they could have been charged, there could have been bail amounts set, but none of that was done because the district attorney refuses to take a leadership position on this issue,’ Eric Siddall told Fox, slamming Gascon office’s do-nothing approach to the rampant crime wave currently afflicting cities all across the Golden State.  

In a statement sent to the outlet Monday, Gascon’s office said that it was looking into the suspects’ cases with LAPD officials and ‘will hold those responsible accountable.’  

‘Our Organized Crime and Cyber Crime Divisions are involved because often many of these cases can be interconnected and part of these crimes happens online,’ an adviser to the prosecutor, Alex Bastian, asserted in the statement. 

‘These brazen acts hurt all of us; retailers, employees and customers alike.We will hold those responsible accountable.’ 

Policies raising criticism are tied to Soros’ effort to overhaul the criminal justice system by giving millions to a network of woke prosecutors in Democratic races. 

Gascon raked in more than $2.5 million last year from the Hungarian-American financier, who boasts a reported net worth of $8.6 billion and is most known for giving to Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. 

Soros has also donated to the campaign of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner to the tune of $1.7 million.

In 2016, Soros pumped $3million into seven local district-attorney campaigns, including races in Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas.    

In May, Gascon’s opponents organized a recall effort to oust him from office.

However, despite garnering more than 200,000 signatures from LA citizens in a matter of months, the campaign fell short in October, failing to amass the needed 580,000 LA County voters needed to remove Gascon.

The recent rash of ‘flash mob’-style robberies have only made matters worse for Gascon, with a second recall effort launched against the DA on Monday.

The renewed recall attempt looks to have been spurred by the string of smash-and-grab attacks, which have seen a variety of high-end retailers in the city relentlessly ransacked in recent months. 

This year alone, through November 27, there were 7,542 robberies in Los Angeles, LAPD’s most recent data, as compared to 7,258 last year –  a 3.9 per cent increase.   

Among the latest of the brazen of robberies in LA was a pair or robbers who cornered a mother with her baby on the driveway of her mansion as she waited for its electronic gates to close on Sunday.

The Los Angeles Police Department, which shared footage of the crime on Twitter, is asking for help finding the suspects who robbed the mother in broad daylight. 

The unidentified woman is seen in the video walking into her driveway with her infant in a stroller.

The two robbers walk past the home, then turn around and walk inside before the electronic gates could close. 

They then back the woman against the wall of her property, take a diaper bag off her back and grab a cooler from inside her stroller before fleeing in a car parked outside.

‘Fearing for her and her child’s safety, the victim complied’ with the thieves demands that she hand over her belongings, the LAPD wrote in its Twitter post.’   

On November 22, about two dozen robbers smashed their way into an LA Nordstrom, making off with $5,000 worth of merchandise.A CVS pharmacy in the city was struck just an hour later, where looters stole $8,000 from a cash register. Police said that the 14 arrests made last week were in connection to these attacks.

Two days later, police in Palo Alto announced that two women had been arrested in connection with an attempt to steal items from the RealReal clothing boutique downtown.

At the time, cops detailed how 30 to 40 people arrived in some 20 cars and tried to break down the glass front door but it held.A security guard then reported the effort via a 911 call, which spurred the crowd to flee as police started to arrive.

The suspects were subsequently stopped in a car near the scene, where police said they found at least $15,000 in clothes from a second RealReal location that was burglarized in Larkspur earlier that night.

In another incident later that day, five more people pleaded not guilty to felony charges involving thefts – this time in San Francisco.

Nine people were initially charged in the string of attacks on San Francisco stores such Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Bloomingdale’s in the city’s downtown area and in Union Square – a posh shopping district popular with tourists that was teeming with holiday shoppers.   

Aside from the organized crime rings, the growing problem has been attributed to police officers’ apparent reluctance to pursue such criminals in the current political climate, prosecutors’ failure to prioritize larceny and theft, and the decriminalization of low-level offenses in some jurisdictions. 

Two weeks ago, the San Francisco Bay Area saw a relentless string of audacious ‘smash-and-grab’ robberies, including an incident involving a gaggle of hammer-wielding masked bandits who ransacked jewelry, sunglasses and clothing stores at the Southland Mall in the San Jose suburb of Hayward on November 21. 

That same evening, packs of thieves ransacked a sunglasses store and a Lululemon store in San Jose, stealing nearly $50,000 in merchandise – an incident also related to the recent arrests made by LAPD.

The day prior, on November 20, police said as many as 80 suspects, some wearing ski masks and carrying crowbars, targeted a Nordstrom in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek, assaulting employees and stealing merchandise before fleeing in waiting cars, police and witnesses said. 

Another incident, on November 19, saw roving bands of thieves brandishing hammers and crowbars hit a string of high-end retailers, including Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Bloomingdales, as well as a Walgreens pharmacy and several marijuana dispensaries, in the vicinity of Union Square in San Francisco, a high-end area popular with tourist that was crowded with holiday shoppers.   

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