The District Attorney of Alameda County, Pamela Price, is facing a recall vote this November over accusations that crime is out of control in her jurisdiction. Alameda County encompasses Oakland, and Price faces the recall along with Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. If successful, it would be the first time either position has been recalled in the county’s over 170-year history and could determine the future of crime policy in the Bay Area, Courthouse News reports. Price is the first Black woman to serve as Alameda County’s top prosecutor. The former civil rights lawyer of over 30 years beat the previous district attorney’s expected successor by running her campaign on a 10-point platform of increased police accountability, rehabilitation and reducing mass incarceration. She took about 53% of the vote. Since then, Price has pursued lighter sentences for defendants, opposed enhancement charges to increase jail times and refused to use life without parole as a sentencing tool, among other policies.