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Posted on 05/14/2021 7:56:46 AM PDT by karpov
In 2017, Philadelphians elected “progressive prosecutor” Larry Krasner as district attorney. Since taking office, Krasner has pursued a policy of de-prosecution—the decision not to prosecute certain crimes regardless of whether they actually took place—as homicides have spiked. While Philadelphia experienced de-prosecution and rising homicides leading up to Krasner’s election, both trends have accelerated dramatically under his leadership. That he now faces a serious primary challenge in his quest for reelection should come as no surprise.
Under Krasner, Philadelphia is on track to set two city records: the lowest number of felony prosecutions in modern history and the highest number of homicides. Last year was grim enough, as a 30-year low in felony cases prosecuted coincided with 499 homicides—more than New York, which has five times the population, and one shy of the record, reached in 1990 at the height of the crack epidemic. In 2021, the body count is on track to surpass 600. In just six years, the number of homicides in Philadelphia has doubled.
Over the past decade, the media and academics have hailed the enormous power of prosecutors. Less appreciated is that a prosecutor’s power is absolute only in the authority to de-prosecute. If a prosecutor decides to move forward with a criminal case, he or she must still overcome several hurdles: an indictment or preliminary hearing, pretrial motions to suppress evidence, bench or jury trials, and appeals. But if a district attorney decides to de-prosecute a single case, or even an entire category of crime, that decision is unreviewable. De-prosecution is one of the most potent tools in a prosecutor’s arsenal.
Krasner has used de-prosecution at every level of the criminal-justice process.
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If these “law enforcement” officials aren’t going to enforce the law then let’s just eliminate their jobs. We don’t need them to do nothing.
Philadelphia getting what it voted for.
Zero sympathy here.
Elections have consequences.
There is no crime if you chose to ignore it like dems do:-)
But now I think it's not such a bad idea. There's something to be said for them allowing the criminal thugs to kill off more of their own kind.
Eventually the voters will tire of this guy and he won't be reelected. But in the meantime, just let him not do the job he was hired to do.
Enjoy what you voted for.
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