Candidate for
District Attorney; Westchester County

Dan Schorr, a no-nonsense New York State prosecutor, is running for Westchester District Attorney to fully enforce our laws and protect Westchester families from criminals.

Mr. Schorr is a former Westchester County prosecutor, specializing in domestic violence, sex crimes, child abuse, and homicide cases. He has served as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens and Westchester Counties, compiling extensive trial experience and a strong record of convictions.

Mr. Schorr believes Westchester residents are not being well served today. He believes criminals are being offered plea bargains when they should be brought to trial--and that those brought to trial are too often charged with lesser offenses to artificially bolster conviction records. This failure to support the excellent work of our law enforcement officers, who put their lives on the line to capture criminals, puts Westchester communities at risk by returning dangerous felons to the street more quickly, Mr. Schorr argues.

Mr. Schorr, a graduate of the University or Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School, thinks it is the duty of a district attorney to prosecute dangerous criminals and ensure the safety of all Westchester residents, particularly our most vulnerable, seniors and children.

Mr. Schorr is a passionate spokesman for reorganizing the DA's office to increase efficiencies and better serve victims of crime. He is a strong advocate for expanding the visibility of the DA's office at the community level and for instituting "vertical prosecution" to the office, under which a single assistant district attorney handles a criminal complaint from start to finish.

In addition to prosecuting sex offenders and other violent criminals, Mr. Schorr has worked to support domestic violence survivors in the county. As District Attorney, Mr. Schorr will work to open a Family Justice Center in Westchester to better serve and protect victims of domestic violence.

Mr. Schorr is an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Writing at Pace University Law School. Through a grant from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, he taught the principles of U.S. criminal justice and trial advocacy to Chinese judges and lawyers as an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

He is an active member of the Westchester community, spending two years on the White Plains Planning Board and six years as a youth basketball coach with the White Plains Department of Parks and Recreation. Mr. Schorr is a member of Temple Israel Center in White Plains and serves on the Executive Board of UJA-Federation's Westchester Business and Professional Division.