The recent mayoral election in Los Angeles was "obviously not" a reckoning, according to Judge Adam Levy, because the city needed a serious overhaul.Los Angeles endured a series of wildfires last year that destroyed thousands of homes and put a spotlight on some of the decision-making by local leaders.Former reality show star Spencer Pratt, who lost his own home in the Palisades fires, challenged Mayor Karen Bass in the mayoral primary, largely focusing his campaign on her response to the infernos.
His message helped him surge in the polls before ultimately failing to advance in the June primary.Pratt also centered his campaign on fighting the city’s crime and homelessness, particularly rampant open-air drug use.Levy, the son of "Judge Judy" star Judy Sheindlin, who has starred in a few courtroom shows himself, said he had a checklist of what he'd do as mayor of Los Angeles to address some of the same issues.SPENCER PRATT'S UNEXPECTED POLITICAL RISE FROM MTV VILLAIN TO KAREN BASS CHALLENGERJudge Adam Levy on "Adam's Law." (Paramount)"I would have to get rid of a lot of people, but I could fix it in a month," Levy told Fox News Digital."As mayor, you got to sit down with your DA and with your police chief," he began."And he needs to say that we got to turn this ship around.
You will have 100% support from the mayor's office in focusing your attention on repeat offenders, violent offenders.And those first-time offenders, they need to be moved out of the criminal justice system into an alternative program, community service-based program.
Where you commit a crime, you do community service.You complete community service successfully.
Whatever crime you committed gets wiped off your record.Easy-peasy."If first-time offenders fail to complete their community service, then they would be prosecuted, he explained.
It would be on their record, affecting their ability to get housing and benefits and jobs.He blasted judges who he said are trying to be criminals' friends ...