Eric Siddall
Eric Siddall ran for election for Los Angeles County District Attorney in California. He lost in the primary on March 5, 2024.
Siddall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Eric Siddall was born in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Boston College with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1997 and earned a law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 2000. Siddall's career experience includes being a deputy district attorney with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office and a special assistant United States attorney for the Central District of California.
He has been affiliated with Justice for Murdered Children as a board member, the Association of Deputy District Attorneys as vice president, and the Latino Prosecutors Association as vice president.[1][2]
Elections
2024
See also: Municipal elections in Los Angeles County, California (2024)
General election
General election for Los Angeles County District Attorney
Nathan Hochman defeated incumbent George Gascón in the general election for Los Angeles County District Attorney on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Nathan Hochman (Nonpartisan)  | 59.9 | 1,983,802 |
 | George Gascón (Nonpartisan) | 40.1 | 1,328,710 | |
| Total votes: 3,312,512 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles County District Attorney
The following candidates ran in the primary for Los Angeles County District Attorney on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | George Gascón (Nonpartisan) | 25.2 | 370,654 |
| ✔ | | Nathan Hochman (Nonpartisan) | 15.9 | 234,509 |
 | Jonathan Hatami (Nonpartisan) | 13.2 | 194,755 | |
 | Debra Archuleta (Nonpartisan) | 8.5 | 125,306 | |
 | Jeff Chemerinsky (Nonpartisan) | 7.9 | 116,064 | |
| Maria Ramirez (Nonpartisan) | 7.1 | 105,088 | ||
 | John McKinney (Nonpartisan) | 6.0 | 87,903 | |
 | Eric Siddall (Nonpartisan) | 5.6 | 82,993 | |
 | David Sherman Milton (Nonpartisan) | 4.3 | 63,044 | |
| Craig Mitchell (Nonpartisan) | 3.0 | 44,326 | ||
 | Lloyd Masson (Nonpartisan) | 2.0 | 29,306 | |
 | Daniel Kapelovitz (Nonpartisan) | 1.2 | 17,622 | |
| Total votes: 1,471,570 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Eric Siddall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Siddall's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As a career prosecutor, I know what it takes to put dangerous and violent criminals behind bars and keep our neighborhoods safe. Partnering with both state and federal law enforcement, we disrupted violent crime and took down violent street gangs that committed dozens of murders, including MS-13. In my current assignment, prosecuting crimes against police officers, I convicted gang members of attempted murders against law enforcement and successfully prosecuted a cop killer.
As a leader of the union representing line prosecutors in the DA's Office, I have been at the forefront of improving public safety, while simultaneously advocating for sustainable, responsible reforms. My approach is rooted in empowering frontline prosecutors, prioritizing public safety, and fostering a collaborative environment with local community groups and law enforcement. I have the institutional knowledge to reform the district attorney’s office while keeping the public safe. I have collaborated with every major federal and state law enforcement agency and have served on the board of Justice For Murdered Children and as the former VP of the Latino Prosecutors Association.- The current district attorney has lost the public’s trust and support. From day one, I will work to earn it back. That begins with public safety. I will implement an actionable violence reduction strategy focused on evidence-based practices. I will build a division within the Bureau of Investigation, the D.A.'s law enforcement arm, to act as clearinghouse to collect and analyze information and coordinate resources to prosecute the drivers of crime. This strategy recognizes that a small fraction of criminals cause a disproportionate percentage of violent crime. By concentrating resources on those individuals, we can drastically reduce violence while minimizing negative community impacts associated with increased incarceration.
- We will expand the homeless court model developed by Redondo Beach City Attorney Mike Webb. This model provides a path to ensure that the unhoused receive the necessary resources from the most basic, like identification cards so that they can apply for services, to tacking more complex problems like mental health and drug rehabilitation, and providing supportive housing. The final goal is permanent housing. While this will not eliminate our homelessness crisis, this model is a manner in which the DA's office can proactively engage in a productive way.
- If we want to effectively deal with the mentally ill who are violent, we need to build a mental health infrastructure. For more than a decade, a plan to build critical and safe treatment facilities has gone nowhere because no one has shown the political courage to move it forward. As a result, Los Angeles County does not have the infrastructure to humanely treat the mentally ill. I will make this a priority and lead the charge to build a new County facility 3500-bed facility to house and treat violent individuals with mental health conditions, instead of relying on jails or releasing them back into the community.
I’m running for District Attorney to put an end to these increasingly extreme, partisan swings of the criminal justice policy pendulum. Our future doesn’t have to look like our past. There is a better way – a third way – forward, one that applies a laser-like focus on what matters most: improving public safety while fostering sustainable, responsible reform. This means looking at comprehensive sentencing reform so that inmates seek rehabilitate services while in prison. These efforts will not just lower recidivism, but decimate the power of prison gangs.
"Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets"
by Thomas Abt. This book cuts through ideology and examines practices that work to reduce crime. As a violent crimes prosecutor, I have witnessed first hand how and why the strategy outlined by Abt works.
"Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age" by Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox. One of my most forcible arguments about why George Gascón must be replaced is his failure in leadership. In Gradual, the authors make the argument that effective and impactful reform begins with getting the buy-in of the people you need to get things done. In the case of the DA's office, those people are the line-prosecutors. I know the front-line prosecutors, I have been elected by them to represent them as their union leader, and I know how to get their buy-in so that we can modernize the D.A.'s office.
“Siddall’s candidacy represents a necessary generational shift inside the office, one that we hope will bridge the gap between our newer deputies, who take a more contemporary approach to their work, and our veteran prosecutors, many of whom joined the office when the proverbial criminal justice 'pendulum' was in a different place than it is today.
Siddall has spent his career handling some of the office’s toughest cases, from domestic violence to gang murders to crimes against peace officers. His commitment to public safety is unquestionable.
For just as long, he has been an outspoken and respected public commentator—on television, in the press, in court, and in the community—on criminal justice-related issues.
He has publicly supported reasonable and sustainable criminal justice reforms. He is a passionate, longtime advocate for the rights of victims and their surviving family members.
As district attorney, I will make public safety the highest priority. I believe by prioritizing public safety and implementing reasonable and responsible reforms we can moderate the pendulum policy swings and steer Los Angeles County towards a future with safer neighborhoods and healthier communities.
Mike Webb, City Attorney for Redondo Beach, who created a modern homeless court model, that Eric wants to expand throughout Los Angeles.
I pledge greater transparency on providing the public key information on controversial cases, specifically the declination to file criminal charges in cases involving officer-involved shootings reviewed by prosecutors.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Eric Siddall campaign website, "Meet Eric," accessed January 12, 2024
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 5, 2024
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