Alameda County voters have decisively recalled District Attorney Pamela Price, with 65% voting in favor of her removal, according to the Alameda County Registrar’s Office.
Price, who became the county’s first Black woman DA after winning in 2022, promised racial equity reform, alternatives to incarceration, and accountability for law enforcement.
But her job quickly became controversial, with victims’ families and police complaining that high-profile cases like the deaths of one-year-old Jasper Wu, security guard Kevin Nishita, and Home Depot worker Blake Mohs were still not solved.
Some people said Price’s liberal policies were too easy on criminals and did not do enough to deal with murder charges. Specifically, the Wu and Nishita cases have not yet gone to trial. The person who killed Mohs has only pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.
The Save Alameda For Everyone (SAFE) campaign led the recall effort and got 123,000 signatures. Local police unions and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) also gave the effort a lot of support.
