SAN FRANCISCO - The highly touted L.A. environmental crimes and occupational safety and health unit can no longer accept new cases, District Attorney Gil Garcetti announced recently. A strict hiring freeze, imposed because of the county's budget crisis, has created a shortage in the number of prosecutors. With fewer attorneys, the D.A. is obliged to concentrate on street crime. "I want desperately to continue to prosecute these (other) cases, but unless we have the ability to prosecute violent crime, we c
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