In early December 2024, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger swore in Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor and assistant U.S. attorney general, as the 44th district attorney of Los Angeles County. Hochman announced a series of immediate policy changes that he said would promote public safety by holding the most dangerous offenders accountable. “District attorneys must have only two things as their North Stars: the facts and the law,” Hochman said during the swearing-in ceremony. “I reject blanket extreme policies on both sides of the pendulum swing: decarceration policies that predetermine that certain crimes and certain criminals are not going to be prosecuted and mass incarceration policies that also are not anchored in the facts and the law.”