Daily News | In the move to remove DA Larry Krasner from office, a fight over gun violence and convictions
As Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner challenges a drive to remove him from office him, he’s saying his detractors have his record all wrong.
So goes the war of statistics and the fierce debate about Krasner, a Democrat, as Republicans in the state House voted largely on partisan lines Wednesday to send an impeachment resolution to the Senate. “When you go up against the heavy hitters in the city, defense lawyer-wise, you get blown out of the water,” one police commander said recently. He asked not to be named, saying he didn’t want to be identified as being critical of the district attorney.
Krasner’s policy shifts, such as a decision not to pursue prostitution cases, has contributed to the fall in prosecutorial caseload. Aby a state House committee that looked at Krasner’s record said that in his first year in office, 2018, his staff declined to pursue charges in 7% of arrests, a tripling of the declination rate in previous years. The rejected cases were generally narcotics offenses deemed too weak to charge, the report said.
The decline in arrests has mainly involved cases of drug dealing, drunken driving, aggravated assault, and theft, Krasner’s office said. As Krasner noted in his “Impeachment Lies” statement Tuesday, Philadelphia has long had a relatively low conviction rate.
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