I started watching “Philly da” about my favorite progressive da, larry krasner. It’s fucking pbs, but it’s not free! Kind of pisses me off. But I am still going to watch it.
Overall, I find it very fascinating to see things from his perspective. He admits he received millions from soros for his campaign, doesn’t like cops or convictions. He is putting as many people on diversion programs as possible. He says, unfortunately, sometimes justice looks like a conviction with time in prison, sometimes it looks like diversion, and sometimes it looks like dropping a case. I don’t disagree with that totally, but the numbers in which he is doing this is insane and it is not having a good effect. Oh, and he mentions eliminating cash bond and bail reform about 100 times.
The first episode focuses on his campaign and early days in office. He starts by purging the office of tons of prosecutors. It happened on a very nasty snow day where the city was shut down, yet he made all these prosecutors come into work to fire them. He talks about changing the culture of the da office through changing culture and “artifacts” defined as sentencing, cases, and the attitude of what to prosecute and when, and what other options to use. He and his staff, of course, talk a lot about racial disparities in the rate of convictions in the most incarcerated city in the US. However, no where do they discuss the fact that black and brown(his favorite term, much like mine is “absolutely”) people are committing the overwhelming bulk of violent crimes. He talks about waging war on filing charges against cops, the dirty ones, I encourage, but he actually says to a group of cops “have you tried not shooting an unarmed person in the back?”
And the most important factor is that his policies are not only failing miserably, but it’s costing lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/us/larry-krasner-philadelphia-committee-report.html
In case there is a paywall, here are some highlights.
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Gun violence
has unquestionably soared in Philadelphia, with more murders last year than any year on record, and nearly 2,000 gunshot victims this year to date — more than 400 of whom were killed.
The legislative committee’s report highlights data showing that in Philadelphia, the number of convictions in illegal gun possession cases has fallen substantially in recent years, with a higher proportion of such cases being withdrawn or dismissed in Philadelphia than elsewhere in the state.”
https://pennpoliticalreview.org/2021/09/is-krasners-soft-on-crime-approach-working/
This article talks about phillys soaring crime rates and falling conviction rates even though arrests are up(more on that in a minute). As I have said before, krasner blames the nra and republicans for the crime rates in his city because of their support for firearms. But this fucking idiot refuses to prosecute felons with firearms cases. He has record numbers of dismissed cases for those crimes and he wonders why murder and shooting rates are breaking records? On the arrest issue, I have heard from sources(a Philly cop and others) that the cops are making arrests (justified) to piss krasner off knowing he will dismiss them. Again, things like felons with firearms cases.
Here are some quotes from this article:
“Instead of accepting the truth and deciding to prosecute gun crime, D.A. Krasner is wildly throwing out accusations. He has
blamed Pennsylvania’s Republican elected officials (and the NRA for backing them), proclaiming that he’s “surprised they don’t spend all day trying to make every gun legal.”
https://www.bigtrial.net/2021/11/under-larry-krasner-philly-has-almost.html?m=1
This is a good one. Slams krasner on his failed policies, the city breaking its murder record, and the most dismissed gun cases in phillys history. Remember krasners soft spot for black and brown people? His soft on crime policies hits them the hardest. Of phillys 500 murders, 83% of victims were black while 7% were white and 10% other-Hispanic. It also discusses several instances in which his department failed to prosecute or sat on warrants during which time, the suspects killed someone. It also talks about phillys unique way of hiding murders by classifying some deaths as suspicious or “S” including the murder of pregnant women’s babies. There nothing mysterious or suspicious about that, especially in one case where the suspect shot the pregnant woman coming from her baby shower in the stomach. Here ya go:
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Here's just a few examples that I've listed in detail, along with other atrocities committed by the D.A., on a separate webpage on
ralphcipriano.com that's dubbed "Toxic Justice:"
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Hassan Elliott, an armed and dangerous gang member and convicted drug dealer, who walked out of prison a free man after the D.A. gave him a sweetheart sentence on a gun pinch, and then the D.A. looked the other way on three alleged parole violations for Elliott. Elliott proceeded to shoot and kill Corporal James O'Connor, who was trying to serve him with an arrest warrant for murder.
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Razique Bumpas, whom, after the D.A.'s office failed to approve two arrest warrants for, shot and killed Ishan Charmidah Rahman, a 39 year-old pregnant woman; her unborn baby also died.
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Josephus Davis, a two-time convicted robber who was arrested again for an alleged carjacking and an aggravated assault, has his bail lowered in the two new cases from a total of $300,000 all the way down to $32,000, so his family had to plunk down only $3,200 to spring him out of jail. Davis proceeded to shoot and kill Millan Loncar, a recent Temple grad who was out walking his dog.
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Taray Herring, a convicted sex offender with a dozen arrests on his rap sheet whom Krasner let out of jail because the D.A. was afraid he'd catch Covid, allegedly killed, hacked up and dismembered the body of Peter Gerold, 70, a licensed masseuse.
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Tyree Miles, whom the D.A. dismissed a total of a dozen charges against on three different occasions, after he was accused of first attacking his girlfriend, then the cops, and finally his mother, brother and other relatives. Miles was finally charged with involuntary manslaughter, after his 10 year-old niece shot herself to death with her uncle's gun, a weapon that Miles had illegally and carelessly stored at her house.
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Michael Banks, whom the D.A.'s office plea-bargained a felony gun charge against down to a misdemeanor, got involved in a neighborhood shoot out, and shot and killed Zamar Jones, a 7-year-old boy who was sitting out on his front porch, playing with his toy race car and scooter.
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Adriano Coriano, whom the D.A.'s office had an arrest warrant for, for allegedly violating a protection order by repeatedly stalking, harassing and assaulting his ex-wife. While the D.A.'s office sat on that arrest warrant for six straight days, Coriano shot and killed his ex-wife, Gladys Coriano.
All of these murder victims died as a result of Larry Krasner's "progressive" policies. And this is just a few of Krasner's greatest hits. There are so many more.
Here’s a whole website dedicated to krasner and his fucking horrible job as da
http://www.ralphcipriano.com/stories/big-trial/toxic-justice/
On this page are dozens of stories about krasner, my favorite, after an officer was shot and killed, krasner went to the hospital to speak with the family and a wall of police officers refused to let him in.
In another one, krasner gives a speech blaming the nra and greedy gun manufacturers for the death of a ten year old girl who shot herself with her uncles gun. The interesting part is that the uncle was a convicted felon who was arrested 3 times in less than two years leading up to the incident. He attacked and robbed his gf and then attacked police. All charges dropped. Then he led police on a vehicle pursuit and pointed a stolen gun at officers before he was arrested. Pled guilty and got FIVE MONTHS PROBATION. Then he was arrested again for attacking his mother and brother. Charges dropped. In all, 12 charges were dropped against this man who was twice caught with stolen firearms as a FELON. Oh, and krasner dropped the manslaughter charges against him for the death of the ten year old.
But krasner’s shitty protection of children doesn’t end there. He offered a deal of 3.5 years to a man that smothered his three month old son to death while he laughed. They also let him out on 500k bail for free and put him on house arrest.
Here’s another one his office fucked up. A man that had spent two separate stints in prison for two different murders was stopped for a stop sign violation. He had a gun and drugs in the car. They dropped the gun and drug charges because he didn’t show up for court on the stop sign violation and was found guilty and charged $25. Because it double jeopardy, they were unable to try him on the gun possession charges and had to drop them.
