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Posted on 10/08/2025 1:39:34 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Public data show that the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, under Larry Krasner, may be leveraging violence prevention grants for political capital, raising troubling questions about transparency and accountability, especially surrounding the surge in funding to so-called “violence interrupters.” These groups, composed of faith-based organizations, nonprofits led by former felons, and other community groups that promise to use their roots in the community to intervene in “beefs” before they escalate to violence, gained national traction following the 2020 “defund the police” movement. The evidence shows that the vast majority of the grants to violence interrupters was dispensed outside normal city auditing mechanisms, and aligned suspiciously with municipal and federal election cycles.
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Krasner has been to the Kalifornia Newsom/Pelousy School of Anti-Transparency and Anti-Accountability
In Kalifornia, they BRAG about spending $25 BILLION on the Homeless Industrial Complex.
They just raised $100 million for the Kalifornia fire victims, but the money has been allocated to.............................
The left believes stealing from the public and giving to themselves is morally justified by the past oppression they might have faced somewhere long ago.
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In DC, the violence interrupter money bypasses the middleman and is just given directly to the criminals.
“ DC violence interrupter arrested for deadly shooting”
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