DSA's Frances Gill Ducks Police, Prison Questions in LA Interview as She Cites $500,000 Student Debt
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 10
DSA's Frances Gill Ducks Police, Prison Questions in LA Interview as She Cites $500,000 Student Debt
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 10
Summary
Frances Gill, a Democratic Socialists of America national committee member, repeatedly sidestepped questions in a Los Angeles TV interview about how abolishing police, prisons and jails would work in assault and rape cases.
CBS Los Angeles anchor Conan Nolan pressed Gill after she acknowledged the DSA goal to "defund police" and eliminate prisons and jails, asking what agency would investigate crimes and where offenders would be held.
Gill refused to engage what she called hypotheticals, arguing Los Angeles instead spends "outrageous amounts" on policing while neglecting street lighting, substance-abuse treatment and mental-health care that she said drive public safety problems.
The interview also turned to immigration and class politics: Gill bristled at questions about abolishing ICE, denied Joe Biden opened the border, and cited her own $500,000 student debt while defending the DSA's appeal to college-educated voters.
Border enforcement remains a political flashpoint around those arguments, with CBP recording at least 11 million encounters during Biden's presidency versus fewer than 10,000 a month under Donald Trump, according to the report.