BROOKLYN DISTRICT ATTORNEY ERIC GONZALEZ
A lifelong Brooklynite and career prosecutor, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez made history in 2017 as the first Latino District Attorney ever elected in New York State. Re-elected in 2021 and 2025, he leads one of the nation’s largest and most innovative prosecutors’ offices with an unwavering commitment to safety, fairness, and justice for all Brooklyn residents.
Since taking office, District Attorney Gonzalez has implemented some of the most ambitious and nationally influential reforms in modern prosecution. His administration has strengthened public safety by strategically focusing enforcement on the small number of individuals who drive the vast majority of violence, while expanding the use of intelligence, data, expert-driven investigations, and cutting-edge technology. These efforts have helped produce some of Brooklyn’s safest years on record, culminating in 2025 with the lowest number of shootings and homicides in the borough’s recorded history.
Under his leadership, the office has launched a series of pioneering units designed to meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving city: the Gender-Based Violence Division, one of the largest in the country, which incorporates a survivor-centered approach across domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking prosecutions; New York City’s first standalone Hate Crimes Bureau; a state-of-the-art Digital Evidence Lab that modernizes how investigators analyze phones, video, and electronic data; a first-of-its-kind Virtual Currency Unit dedicated to cryptocurrency fraud; and New York State’s first Street Safety Bureau to address traffic violence.
Mindful that safety and justice objectives are often best met by affording those who have committed minor offenses a second chance, District Attorney Gonzalez has created specialized programs to support young people, individuals with substance abuse disorders, those struggling with mental illness, and people who commit offenses out of desperation. These evidence-based initiatives provide participants with the treatment, stability, and services they need to lead healthy and law-abiding lives — and have contributed to meaningful reductions in recidivism across Brooklyn.
Prior to his election, District Attorney Gonzalez served as Chief Assistant District Attorney to the late DA Kenneth P. Thompson, where he guided the launch of the office’s Conviction Review Unit, widely recognized as a national model. District Attorney Gonzalez built on this work with the creation of a comprehensive, first-in-the-nation Post-Conviction Justice Bureau.
District Attorney Gonzalez grew up in East New York and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He is a graduate of John Dewey High School in Coney Island, Cornell University, and the University of Michigan Law School. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three sons.