Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is pictured arriving at a polling site on Election Day, November 2, 2021.Larry Krasner, a 60-year-old longtime civil rights and defense attorney who sued the Philadelphia Police Department 75 times, won election in 2017 against a crowded field by billing himself as the outsider candidate capable of making radical change.
Krasner's campaign benefitted from the largesse of controversial Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros, who poured an eye-popping $1,7million into the race to support the Democratic candidate's criminal justice reform agenda.
Under Krasner, the future years of incarceration have been cut by half, and the length of parole in probation supervision have been slashed by nearly two-thirds compared to the previous DA.Krasner, who previously defended Black Lives Matter and Occupy Philadelphia protesters as a lawyer, has clashed with the city's top cops over his reluctance to prosecute non-violent gun and drug possession crimes, despite a surge in gun violence and rising homicide rates in the City of Brotherly Love.As of November 21, 2021, there have been 491 homicide victims, a 14 per cent increase from last year's number of 436, and 283 in 2019.The Philadelphia Police Department and Krasner have been at loggerheads over a steep drop in convictions related to gun offenses.
The progressive Democrat DA has contended that his main focus is on convicting people who use guns to kill or hurt others, not those who are caught being in possession of the weapons.
Krasner's office has argued that there is little evidence that suspects accused of being in possession of guns are responsible for the uptick in gun violence.
Compared to the previous DA term, Krasner's has imposed 24,000 fewer years of incarceration and 102,000 fewer years of supervised probation or parole since 2018.In addition, under Krasner there have been 23 exonerations of offenders serving sentences for which he says a review found insufficient evidence.
Police Commissioner Outlaw said in September that she and Krasner 'just don't agree' on whether prioritizing illegal gun and drug possession prosecutions would reduce violent crime in the city.
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Friday, December 3, 2021
How billionaire George Soros has bankrolled woke DA's in Democrat cities with HIGHEST crime rates
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