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ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT

Top 17 Worst District Attorneys in California

Ranked by Total Documented Misconduct, Severity, Taxpayer Cost, and Lives Destroyed

Top 17 Verified Ranked DAs

Ranked by R(p) — the editorial severity score from the methodology. Source: spreadsheet-data/DAs_Math.json. This list is also available as JSON at /api/rest/top_das and via the MCP server at /api/mcp.

  1. Stephen Wagstaffe — R(p) 3066.72, 17 documented incidents
  2. Michael Hestrin — R(p) 2529.36, 15 documented incidents
  3. Todd Spitzer — R(p) 2391.84, 18 documented incidents
  4. Cynthia Zimmer — R(p) 1606.13, 12 documented incidents
  5. Ursula Dickson — R(p) 1330.56, 7 documented incidents
  6. Lisa Smittcamp — R(p) 1017.50, 12 documented incidents
  7. Nathan Hochman — R(p) 947.52, 10 documented incidents
  8. Jeff Rosen — R(p) 670.33, 16 documented incidents
  9. Jeff Reisig — R(p) 515.07, 9 documented incidents
  10. Brooke Jenkins — R(p) 491.04, 12 documented incidents
  11. Lori Frugoli — R(p) 422.63, 10 documented incidents
  12. Diana Becton — R(p) 406.56, 10 documented incidents
  13. Summer Stephan — R(p) 404.87, 10 documented incidents
  14. Tim Ward — R(p) 329.57, 8 documented incidents
  15. Krishna Abrams — R(p) 221.76, 5 documented incidents
  16. Thien Ho — R(p) 42.96, 2 documented incidents
  17. Ron Freitas — R(p) 30.12, 2 documented incidents