John McKinney currently serves as Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County. A native of Passaic, New Jersey, a high-crime, working-class city, John was raised by his older sister, who had three children of her own. As a teenager, John lived through the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980’s and saw his friends die from drug use or go to jail for selling.Â
Deciding to pursue a different path, John graduated from Rutgers University and ultimately from UCLA Law School which landed him in Los Angeles. In 1998, John was hired by the LA County DA’s Office by former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti.
John has 25 years of experience fighting for victims of crime in LA. He has successfully prosecuted some of the most violent and notorious criminals in recent LA history. He was one of the first to stand up to George Gascon and his soft-on-violent-criminals policies. Gascon tried to silence John’s voice by removing him from the Major Crimes Division, but John’s passionate voice for safety and victim’s rights can never be silenced.
You can follow John’s campaign here.