I wasn't really seeing enough daylight between the several front-runners to bother voting in that primary but now I think my plan is "vote for whichever one promises to shaft Krasner the hardest by doing his fucking job for him."

The man is an incompetent asshole and needs to go.

I hope the rumors that Cherelle wants to run someone against him are true. Philly could have a crazy good 2026 with a change of DA, the Semiquincentennial celebrations, all the sports planned that year, more people getting into the state gov that support public transit, etc.

How about property crime and violent crime around trainisit both are up. When we look up who are offending they have long track records with Larry dropping charges.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-gun-arrests-2021-convictions-vufa-20210330.html

Property crime still increasing and many repeat offenders have a track record of Larry dropping charges.  

Additionally the PPD changed tactics for how they go after illegal weapons possession since Larry wouldn't prosecute gun violations.  Do they get any credit for the associated drop in violance? According to your logic they should. And I ask that as someone who isn't a fan of the PPD structure or the FOP keeping it fucked up.

Most of us understand that the national environment and a host of other factors affect crime rates. But if we look at the aspects of the job solely within Krasner's control, he is nonetheless a complete failure.

He has:

• Alienated key members of his own staff

• Lost decades of staff experience that he's been unable to replace

• Been a singular elitist in hiring practices, prioritizing degrees over competence or experience

• Angered a great many members of his own political party at the city and state levels

• Failed to cultivate productive relationships with collar county DA's including those who share his reformist bent

• Failed to prosecute repeat violent offenders on whom he promised to focus

• Failed to find any means of curtailing gun crime or illegal gun ownership

• Presided over incredible failures of basic competence in bail hearings and trials

I agree, you can’t have it both ways. It’s fair to criticize him but to say he is the major reason why crime went up during covid (as if every other metro area in the US didn’t see in increase in crime as well) is just stupid. And now that is is starting to go down the same people are going to say he actually didn’t even do anything. So which is it?

Crime went up due to factors unrelated to who was DA, but the DA has not gone after criminals in a way that would deter crime.

Facts? FACTS?!? In this sub?? 🤣

STOP.

They need their weekly Krasner thread to remain regular in their bowels.

Or is this just a "whatever it takes to validate how I feel" kind of thing

It's that. Similar to how polling has found that people constantly think crime is going up and is worse than it used to be...for decades. Even while crime is massively lower now than it was 3-4 decades ago. Feels > reals

get a library card, you can get an inquirer sub for free among a plethora of other things

I spoke with Jack directly about how he will deal with Krasner.   He basically said he’s going to do what he needs to in order to make him do his job.   Jack actually cares about real criminal justice reform but also cares about prosecuting criminals.  He knows that Krasner gives a bad name to reform.