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“It’s very concerning and frustrating that hasn’t taken the steps he’s committed to,” said A’Brianna Morgan, co-founder of Reclaim Philadelphia, a progressive backer for Krasner.
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Some are incensed he’s backtracked on progressive policy promises. And in other areas, like juvenile imprisonment or civil asset forfeiture, Krasner’s progressive supporters say he has come up short. Perhaps as a result of ramped up prosecutions, the city’s once-shrinking jail population is rising again. ✅ View a ‘report card’ on Krasner’s first term promises Now, he must also convince voters he can deliver on his reform promises and reduce the bloodshed ahead of his May 18 matchup against former homicide prosecutor Carlos Vega.īut by his own description, some of Krasner’s policies have shifted from his campaign trail promises over his first term, with a Billy Penn review finding that the prosecutor has jettisoned some parts of his agenda, while maintaining others with notable success. “It is a constant diet of each side saying, ‘The DA is so blatantly unfair.'” “We often find ourselves in a position where some of the most progressive, most left people are angry and so are some of the most right, most ‘hang-’em-high’ people,” Krasner said.
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How to appease two innately opposed criminal justice philosophies while facing a broad public expectation to bring down crime? On hot button-issues like the Mumia Abu Jamal retrial, Krasner says he wonders if his critics on both sides are coordinating protests so they don’t overlap. Krasner says he’s not in a lose-lose situation, but the overarching dynamic frustrates the 60-year-old attorney - a national sensation who now stars in an eight-part docuseries about his reform work. He says his office uses high-dollar bail to simulate jurisdictions like Washington D.C., which eliminated cash systems yet still detain some defendants accused of serious crimes ahead of trial.ĭA Krasner is booed by protesters in July 2020 Katie Meyer / WHYY
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Krasner depicts these critiques as a warped reading of the “no cash bail” rallying cry.
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A DA who ran on abolishing cash bail, they note, now routinely seeks sums of nearly $1 million to keep potentially dangerous people incarcerated before their trial. More aggressive gun prosecution has done little to appease Krasner’s fiercest critics, like Philly’s vocal police union, but it has spurred backlash from his left-leaning base. Krasner’s office maintains a larger investigation remains ongoing into the Coleman case, but it’s a situation that might have surprised some of the DA’s supporters four years ago, when he soared into office on a promise to end cash bail and restore integrity to criminal prosecutions.įacing blame for the tide of murders, Krasner’s office has ramped up illegal firearm prosecutions by 115% over the past year and has sought upwards of million dollar bail for most cases involving a gun - even in cases like Coleman’s, where hard evidence is thin. Even after video evidence emerged showing Coleman was not carrying a gun and DNA results from the gun came back inconclusive, court records show the DA persisted, right up until a judge tossed the case earlier this month.
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The DA’s office sought $750,000 bail on Coleman’s alleged firearm violation plus reckless endangerment charges. “They didn’t arrest, or even care about, the person who shot him.” “How I see it is that they arrested him for his own shooting,” Coleman’s fianceé Eva Bristoe, who witnessed the shooting with their young son, recounted. Since he’d been on probation for the past 17 years, following a guilty verdict in a robbery, he was not legally allowed to carry a firearm. Officers said they found a gun near the scene, and believed it to be Coleman’s. But after Coleman miraculously woke up in the hospital, the gun violence victim learned he was under arrest after his own shooting - and it was Krasner’s office that OK’d the charges. The shooting was one of thousands that spilled blood on city streets over the past year. In January, the 37-year-old father took a bullet to the head outside his West Philadelphia home.