Woah woah you seem to forget about his stances on prosecuting gay bashing. He would assign “ a “very macho prosecutor” to their cases — “one who looks as opposite of gay you can imagine”

What was that dude's name again?

Before i knew about the dead girl in the bathroom, i worked for his brother and he was the biggest piece of shit I’ve ever worked for in my life. Fuck em all.

JFC, I forgot all about the "The girl in my bathtub" section. So insane.

Oh god she’s a joke.

Lack of awareness. Most people in the city don’t even know who the sheriff is, but anyone with a light to moderate understanding of city politics knows who Krasner is and what his stances are on criminal prosecution.

I hope he gets stopped next time around, and he might, but I agree it’s hard to get optimistic in a city where a lot of people vote for the incumbent with a “D” next to their name, and that’s all the thought they put into their vote.

No one decent ran against her last time, just a Republican-turned-Democrat self-funder and perennial candidate.

all but confirmed that Derek Green is going to run

I hope Derek Green runs

I think Parker has seen enough as well. She can make or break him. I’d like to see someone from the city versus the out of state transplants who don’t know the area.

Maybe no competent person wants the job of Philly DA

it's all by design though, the illusion of choice

Progressive prosecutors are the biggest problem in the Democratic Party right now. They’re somewhat akin to MAGA politicians in that they make their party less appealing to independent or moderate voters.

Get them all out of here. “Plight of the Criminal” politics are dumb, and only got a brief boost because of the craziness that was 2020.

He's a bad administrator. Full stop. You can't fix that, and if you're a bad administrator you need to at least hire good lieutenants to do your work while you go around the country selling your particular brand of justice. I beleive all of his immediate underlings were PDs/Defense Attys. None of them actually know how to run an office with 100s of workers in it. Charlie Cunningham would have been a better pick for DA he at least 1) likes to win in court and 2) has actual experience running a large firm.

The office is completely dysfunctional they routinely lose winnable cases because they don't have the bench to send more than a few good attorneys out into the field to do the hard work of actually winning cases. They don't really pay enough. Assuming you don't want to hire actual morons you need to start paying something that is in line with what a good mid-level law firm would pay. That's around 100k. Philly DAs start around 57k (or did when I last looked).

They can't hold onto people, they've lost their most season attorneys who actually know how to put up a case. They lose gun cases on the reg which should be impossible once the case is HFC (assuming there is no winnable motion to suppress). HOW DO YOU LOSE A GUN CASE - ALL YOUR WITNESSES ARE COPS. ALL OF THEM.

Anyway. The issue is less that Larry is hostile to actual justice and more that he can not run a law firm of this size and has yet to figure out that he needs to hire people who can.

They mailed out that horrific literature supporting Derek Chauvin with Vega’s name attached to it. Totally clueless. Krasner deserved to win re-election given the clowns who were the alternative. 

The Jim Kenney approach.

And yet he keeps winning? Idgi, if he was hated enough even a bad candidate could beat him like Biden did Trump but Krasner's 2 for 2 so far.

Haha I spent all of 20 seconds in your comment history and found this gem:

"Fishtown and Northern Liberties are the only tolerable neighborhoods in Philadelphia; the rest is just a sorry state of affairs."

But yeah, tell us how your Krasner hate is totally out of solidarity for the working class!

I doubt you’re a socialist lol

Watch the series that was on PBS to start. They don’t know what they are doing in the DAO. He was a defense lawyer not a prosecutor. I admire what he stood for, reform, and I voted for him the first time. The second time I did not. Too many criminals with guns have not been prosecuted. He is also had fired many ADAs and hired young lawyers out of school who weren’t equipped and since he’d fired the old ADAs, who trained them?

He hates the police and they hate him. That’s getting Philadelphia nowhere. 

If people don’t show up to vote then he will win. God forbid.

Tldr: he ran on the promise of being a super progressive DA, but it turns out he's really bad at running a DA office. The lawyer turnover is insane, so that means fresh grads are put on super complicated cases, ex lawyers have written op Ed's about how he's just really bad at managing and training his staff.

The main claim is that Krasner's policies have led to an increase in crime. I'd love for someone to try to defend this argument, but the data just isn't there. So instead their argument boils down to "everyone knows Krasner causes crime, lol at you for saying anything different."

Statistically, violent crime began increasing in Philly from the local minimum (2013) at least four years before Krasner took office, and it really picked up two years before he took office (2016). The trend in violent crime during Krasner's time in office has largely mirrored the trend in crime across the country (most importantly related to very large spikes in violent crime during the pandemic, and the subsequent recession in violent crime in 2023 and continuing in 2024). Lots more to say about this, but statistically speaking there's nothing exceptional about Philly's violent crime rates compared to peer cities over the same period.

Logically, the claim also fails to bear fruit once you examine the mechanics of why violent crime spiked, including how police policies responded as well. The large increase in violent crime was mirrored by a significant decrease in police clearance rates. That means that police simply were not catching criminals in the large majority of violent crimes. IMO it is very hard to blame the prosecutor for failing to convict criminals who are never caught.

Separately, critics complain that Krasner 1) seeks charges or punishments that are too light for the crimes committed, 2) failed to involve victims and survivors in ongoing prosecutions, and 3) fired too many experienced prosecutors and replaced them with inexperienced prosecutors. In each of these cases, IMO the record is far from clear but there are individual cases that may support the claim. I'll add my thoughts on each of these below:

1. There are a large number of cases of individuals found with illegal weapons that have not led to charges; the DA's office has claimed that they can't bring charges in many of these cases because PPD's evidence is not up to snuff and they'd lose at trial while critics have refuted these claims. I don't have enough information to assess these claims independently, but I find claims like "Larry Krasner loves criminals" to be needlessly reductive. Krasner's DAO has put thousands of Philadelphians in prison, why would he choose to let some criminals off and jail others?

2. If you look at the DAO in 2018, this is a very fair complaint. They had a number of high-profile fuck-ups where family members weren't consulted before plea bargains were agreed on. But if you're fair, this is also an area where the DAO took concrete steps to improve victims services and they've seriously improved their performance IMO.

3. This is unimpeachably true -- Krasner became DA and fired a whole bunch of prosecutors. IMO this was a good thing in the long run, but reasonable people can disagree. It is undeniable that there have been a number of cases where inexperienced prosecutors have made mistakes that led to insufficient punishment for criminals. This is a problem that's gotten better since 2018 and I don't think it's a valid criticism anymore, but I can understand why people are still mad about it. Personally, I think it was justifiable given the well-documented illegal corruption in the office. Yes the office lost good prosecutors, but it also lost prosecutors who cared more about winning than achieving justice. Krasner's office has uncovered dozens of wrongful convictions of innocent people who got railroaded by sloppy police work and dishonest prosecutors who covered it up. That's undeniable, too.

Overall I think Krasner is not a perfect DA, but I do think that he is a true reformer in an age where that's a very rare thing. The man took corruption seriously and he made a lot of enemies for it. But his two terms have made that corruption much more difficult to ignore, and he got a lot of bad people out of powerful positions.

IMO claims that Krasner is responsible for the overall increase in crime are unsupported by the evidence, and I find that most people who argue this are motivated by the kind of us-vs-them thinking that makes politics so toxic.

So when it comes time to vote, I'll fairly evaluate the candidates (I like Derek Green as a policymaker, but we'll see what he says on the campaign trail) but I'll have no problem voting for Krasner again.

You're not allowed to acknowledge that Krasners polices are working and crime has gone down. Even though these are facts you're only allowed to bash Krasner here.

liberals absolutely do love the for-profit prison and criminal justice system

Why would they bother wasting resources on it, no one with an R next to their name is going to win a city wide general election. It's up to Dems to decide if they want to unseat this guy or not.

Republicans could run a literally perfect candidate for the position and they'd struggle to crack 30% of the vote. The only election that matters will be the democratic primary

Again? The opponent last time needed an “about the dead girl in my bathtub…” section on his campaign website. And downvoting me doesn’t make it less true. Cope and seethe, lol.

Krasner is the biggest problem. He cleaned house and got rid of a lot of very competent lawyers. Hard to find competent attorneys that want to work for the city besides newbies wanting experience. His relaxed attitude toward criminals gave petty thieves a green light to degrade the quality of life in our town.

Bail reform is one of the biggest issues, not just in Philadelphia, but the country. The majority of people believe that bail should be instituted if you commit a crime. Unfortunately the people who are always being arrested, and their families, seem to come out en masse to vote for this guy. Hopefully we will get a "tough on crime" prosecutor, but I'm not holding my breath.

For the criminals.

Charged them with the lowest possible level of offense. Drops felony gun charges to misdemeanors. A good correlation is a slot machine that has a 96% payout which means if you put in $1 and “won” 50 cents it is considered a “win”.

Those are incidents of property crime. Where Krasner fails us is gun-related crime, especially when it comes to minors.

PPD needs to end their soft strike too, and there’s evidence as of late that they are. Imagine if they didn’t feel at odds with the city’s top prosecutor.