Philly DA: Stop the 'false narratives' about progressive prosecutors.
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Q&A with Philadelphia's district attorney, who is facing an impeachment threat because of rising crime.
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Larry Krasner wants to fix America's criminal justice system, which imprisons more people per capita than any other country on the planet. Since 2018, he's served as the district attorney of Philadelphia-one of America's most highly incarcerated and crime-ridden cities.
Krasner spent three decades as a criminal and civil rights defense attorney before deciding to run for office.
"Our movement did the uncomfortable thing: We took back power," he wrote in a memoir about his successful 2017 run to become Philadelphia's district attorney. "We outsiders went inside and took over the institution we had fought against all our lives."
In his first week as D.A., Krasner fired 31 staffers and replaced them with a new team that he described as "ideologically attached to the mission."
"It's a pretty basic mission for people who are in favor of freedom," Krasner tells Reason. "One of those missions is to be less incarcerated than Vladimir Putin's Russia. I don't think that should be very controversial."
Krasner won reelection easily last year, but today he's under intense pressure. Philadelphia posted a record 562 murders in 2021, and it's on pace for a similar outcome in 2022. The Republican-led state Legislature has begun impeachment proceedings against him.
Reason's Zach Weissmueller sat down with Krasner in his office to talk about his reforms, his city's spike in violent crime, the heat that progressive prosecutors are feeling in places like Los Angeles and San Francisco, and what that means for the future of American criminal justice reform.
Additional links to data referenced in this video:
Decriminalisation of Drugs What can we learn from Portugal? by Pierre Andersson
The Red State Murder Problem, by Kylie Murdock and Jim Kessler of Third Way
"Murders Are Rising. Blaming a Party Doesn't Add Up." by Jeff Asher
Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System
Philadelphia Police Department's crime maps and statistics
Fort Worth's Updated 2020 4th Quarter Crime Report
"Murder rate in Jacksonville dropped 23% in 2021 compared to 2020, according to sheriff," by Heather Crawford
"Homicides and overall violent crime are up in Philadelphia," by Isaac Avilucea
FBI historic crime statistics by city and region
0:00 Intro
2:00 Defender to DA
6:30 Drug Reform
9:09 Bail Reform
14:57 Violent Crime Spikes
23:46 Solutions
27:36 Quality of Life Crimes
30:15 Facing Impeachment
32:48 Criminal Justice Reform Future
Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Edited by Danielle Thompson and Adam Czarnecki. Graphics by Justin Zuckerman. Sound editing by Ian Keyser.
Photo Credits: Charles Fox/TNS/Newscom; STEVEN M. FALK/TNS/Newscom; Cory Clark/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom; Pennsylvania County Map by Derek Ramsey licensed under a CC-BYSA 2.5 license.
It's amazing how someone can look you straight in the eye and lie out of his a$$... same place where he's pulling out his "stats."
A lawyer lying….oh no way!!
Right or wrong, I don’t know, but he comes across as laughably sleazy.
He supports gang bangers over property owners. Not very libertarian of reason to bring on commies.
You know from the very beginning when they explain he fired a bunch of people and replaced them with "ideologically attached" people to having a lower conviction rate than the rest of the world that you have a problem. Your goal should never be to have different stats than countries that in all likelihood lie, don't track them as well as we do, or frankly don't have people who live in terrible fear of their criminal justice system or the joke of it that passes for it in many other countries. The goal should only be to objectively try to uphold the law and defend the public. That is the goal. Not trying really hard not to imprison people.
This is a country that was founded on an armed rebellion by a bunch of rugged pioneers. We are rowdy and enjoy immense freedoms. It shouldn't be a surprise that that leads to criminality. Perhaps we should have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Someone has to. Those stats also don't factor in secret police imprisonments or police murders that occur in other countries. The idea that we throw more people in prison here than Russia is laughable. How many people are the Russians killing outright instead of arresting? Why in the hell would you trust them to give accurate stats to begin with? Or China? Or literally any other hell hole you say we worse than? It's idiotic.
typical jew
"I'm here for more freedom"
Proceeds to talk about charging someone for owning a gun.
Everybody's fault but his, this is insane.
This DA is taking no responsibility for his policies.
Much worse, he's lying about the data and spinning other data to claim a narrative that Republicans are causing more murder than democrats by saying 8 of 10 cities where murder is the highest are Republican.
He's a bad apple.
He just started policy’s that would increase his home value in suburbs or gated community he lives in while decreasing the value of other neighborhoods.
There needs to be a clear distinction between violent and nonviolent crimes.
@@tommyanomaly6193 clearly he's not making it because he refuses to prosecute neither
At 20:00 he's wrong that the cities are 80% republican. The states are governed by republicans, but the cities are democrats. I've seen the study. and while I'm typing, I see that Reason has seen the same study. Good job Reason for getting to the meat of the problem.
You heard wrong he said 80% democrat, 20 republican
@@midnightshade32 21:05 "8 of 10 of the most murderous cities were Republican cities."
@@midnightshade32
However his point still checks out; even in Texas; Houston, Austin & Dallas were the first to double down on Drag Queen Story Hour for Children in order to invigorate their efforts in “Queering Childhood”.
•Texas 🤔
Let criminals go, they immediately return to committing crimes.
It ain't rocket science.
Here in San Francisco reported incidents of shoplifting dropped while at the same time CVS and Weelgreens were shutting down stores due to shoplifting and fortifying the rest against increased shoplifting and passing the costs on to the consumer. So why were reported incidents of shoplifting dropping if things are so bad stores are closing?
It's because when the prosecutors don't enforce laws the police get frustrated and stop making arrests or investigations crimes they know won't be punished. Once the police give up the stores give up on calling the police so the *reported* incidents go down even as the actual crime rate is going up.
Now you don't need extra harsh punishment to deter something like shoplifting but there has to be *some* punishment or the pervasive atmosphere of lawlessness spreads and more people get emboldened to break the law.
@@Strideo1 I'd argue that police not making an arrest because they feel the repercussions are inappropriate have a bigger impact on repeat crime than a DA's office using diversion instead of conviction. I'd also argue that we have a serious problem if the police get to decide what laws to enforce based on their feelings rather than the law.
@@Strideo1I loved visiting downtown SF when visiting family off and on from January 2014- January 2020 th then, wham!, stores closed. Sad.
Glad he is not my DA. He has some ideas that or OK, but in practice, you will know a tree by its fruit and the fruit in PA is pretty darn rotten.
"I don't set bail, bail is set by judges."
He just advises judges to reduce or eliminate bail for his pet cases. Then he's surprised when they start dropping bail across the board? The judges are following his advice, but with ideological consistency, something he likely doesn't understand.
Also, you made huge factual error in one of your edited segments. You said he's "right that 8 out of 10 STATES, with the highest murder rate, voted for Trump" but that wasn't the lie. He said "8 out of 10 of the most murderous CITIES are republican CITIES, essentially trump cities." Which is straight from his imagination, not reality.
Worth noting that 10/10 cities with the highest number of murders are run by democrats.
Per capita, it's 9/10.
So he's not just wrong, he's got it all backwards
Which states have the highest murder rate that voted for Trump? And that is just making it more partisan.
Don’t judge Krasner by his words, judge him by taking a walk around Philadelphia. His city is a lawless crime den.
Not true
Bail or no bail. People deserve a quick trial. Not months of waiting in custody
except j6
@@seanmorgan8128 yep! Political Prisoners!!!
Less incarceration than Russia? I understand what ypu are aaying, but that isnt an argument. I dont care what other xoubtriws do. justice shouldnt depend on statistics of other countries. this guy comes across as resentfull, victim minded and as an idealogue. A lethal and terrible combination
Well I think reason did a really good job at countering his misinformation around murder rates. There is one line that Krasner said relating to bail.
Well he is correct that bail is set by the judge he's leaving out the fact that bill is set by the judge after the state makes a suggestion for what it should be. So if he doesn't like the decisions the judges are making one possible reason could be that his employees are making horrible suggestions to the judge.
There is also evidence that his office is suggesting no bail for repeat violent offenses.
Another problem with Krasner that he institute with his usage of a politically biased study and one that he confirms with his rant at the end. Krasner is a very partisan person he believes politics comes before results.
Crime prevention doesn't need to be partisan in fact many of the things that have shown good results such as constant and broken windows enforcement we're pioneered and very liberal cities, such as New York City. There is literally no reason why crime prevention should be off partisan issue however Krasner's rent at the end suggest that he very much wants it to be a partisan issue.
Krasner is a good politician as he appears to be saying all the right things however his performance suggests that he doesn't actually follow his own rhetoric.
“.. good job … countering … misinformation …”
I think he’s a cynical liar tossing up strawmen to shoot down.
400+ murders, 1000 + carjackings Philly so far this year.
"...and non-binary [prostitutes]"
...just had to be inclusive, didn't you.
When you want to see where somebody's really at, look at the little things.
Impeachment is an act carried out by elected representatives, based on the law. It is by definition not ‘anti democratic’
no it is not
@@whousa642 what’s not?
It is not anti-democratic, it is the law
@@whousa642
What is the law ?
@@angelozachos8777 The laws that allow for impeachment. Is that really a question? Decided and voted by the people. Think before commenting.
A DA is a Law ENFORCEMENT Officer.
He doesn't get to choose which laws to enforce, he must enforce ALL laws in his state. He doesn't interpret law.
If only that were true in practice!
Yes and no. You only choose cases that you know you're going to win. That being said, he is in fact picking and choosing.
The DA is a elected office not a hired employee. Completely different set of rules
Police officers also choose which laws to enforce. This is a good thing, because laws that work against peaceful people should not be enforced.
No, DA should nullify dumb laws.
I’ll give the guy credit for putting himself out there and making his case openly. I’ll even admit to finding him likable.
However you can most easily spot the lie when he starts to sound like the run of the mill democrat that he actually is.
Go figure that a lawyer knows how to persuade.
As Krasner kept babbling, I kept recalling passages from the Vision of the Anointed.
This man should've remained a defense attorney. He has blood on his hands as a DA.
Is it just me, or has other "Progressive" D.A.s tried these same policies in other major cities in the last couple of years and failed miserably?
He lost me when he praised Kim Foxx
Krasner is an absolute disgrace.
Truly no local politician has more blood in his hands than he.
Ah yes, charging for gun possession. Very cool, screw this guy.
If theyre criminals idc. Otherwise yeah
@@jamesgilbert91 what he’s hiding is that Philly doesn’t recognize a PA state carry permit. They are arresting and prosecuting legal gun owners/carriers for city only crimes which are illegal in the first place. In the meantime real criminals walk free. This dude is a liar.
@@jamesgilbert91 if you mean they have a previous criminal record that the arresting officers know ex ante, that's one thing...
He lost me at sex work. He is likely led by his heart (Disney level reasoning). He appears to have no understanding of human nature. Exactly the opposite kind of person we want in any kind of leadership.
Make no mistake. This is never heart. It’s ego, ‘only u can save the world, though I destroy it first’ messiah complex.
If there is no victim there is no need to eliminate bail. Just leave peaceful people alone! 😎👍
Krasner thinks he gets to define to the legislature, also freely elected officials, what’s a legit reason for impeachment, and call them election deniers. In Krasner world the state of PA has no say over a city in PA.
Those same Republican, trying to impeach him have never cared about the city, and never will, they had the governors mansion and both chambers of the general assembly eight years ago, and did nothing to stop the crime. Instead, they blocked measures by the city that would decreasing gun violence and did not fun, mental health and drug treatment, while also defunding our schools. Philly has essentially been self governing itself apart from the state, because the state refuses to recognize that the city is in the commonwealth ,however, the only do so when it is convenient for them.
@@jordanalexander4331 “Republican … eight years ago … did nothing”
Eight years ago 2016 Philly homicides were 248, near lowest since the 60s with far less population. Now, it’s over 500. Sounds like you don’t care about the city, F crime as long as you can bash Republicans.
First you say the state defunded city schools. Then you say Philly is a commonwealth, independent of PA.
Why not be honest and say what you want, your own little Philly fiefdom that gets a pay day from the state and them blames everything wrong on the state.
Apparently, they do and they also want the continuation of democracy in our state and in this country. The midterms said it all. Grateful to be a Philadelphian and to have the leadership of Krasner, Shapiro, Fetterman and now a state house that has flipped blue. Looking onwards and upward to real progress going forward in my state of PA.
@@tigerlilygirl2643 “Grateful….”
459 murders, 1000+ carjackings in Philly, so far this year as of last week. Krasner was impeached two days ago. We’ll see if he survives next month in the PA Senate.
Fetterman? You mean he’ll likely vote with your preferences as he should. But leadership? Please.
No, the political hacks in the legislator should not get to change what the voters picked. Like him or not, the voters should have a right to have their selection respected. Impeachment is for crimes and misusing your office, not for doing what you said you were going to do and having a different viewpoint. It would be fine if the legislator wants to bring transparency to the office. I’m not saying there isn’t transparency, but if they wanna make it official. They could do stuff like make sure all statistics from the office are released officially and vetted, policies are released, and hold hearings where he has to come to answer questions. All that would be OK. But not saying just because I have the power to do something that we get to override the voters.
Maybe you’re a Trump supporter and maybe you’re not. But imagine the Democratic states that switched and voted for Trump in 2016, And now imagine the state legislator immediately passed the law that the legislator gets to override the peoples votes. And if you don’t think that’s legal, then you don’t know the constitution. So they decided to put Hillary Clinton office. If you were a Trump supporter something tells me you would be furious and smoke would be coming from your ears at the very minimum. Something tells me you wouldn’t be saying that the legislator is perfectly fine and doing that. What the voters wants matters. Voters are wrong all the time, but you get to pick your representative for the most part.
So follow up: Did he provide the data he says he has somewhere but was not prepared with during an interview on the subject where he seems to know all the numbers???
You know he didn't. It's hidden behind his framed Soros paycheck.
25:48 "If you view the most sacred obligation of a prosecutor's office or law enforcement to try to prevent the next victimization that is really a much better goal than to give someone a life sentence after that person has taken a life. It really doesn't do that much. But that prevention money's got to come from somewhere."
Unless it's self-defense, I actually want that person to have a life sentence.
Then you're a) a psychopath; and b) paying for it.
@@acex222 You think they are a psychopath for wanting a murderer to be put in prison? Murder is worthy of a life sentence, period.
@@acex222
It would be great if the perp's family could pay room and board for the convicted violent offender. Perhaps there would be more effort to raise citizens, as opposed to criminals.
@@-tom-8720 all instances of crime have wildly varying circumstances. That is what sentencing guidelines are for - not every murderer deserves a life sentence, as many ex-convicts have demonstrated.
@@acex222 But the role of criminal law is to deter crime, not to seek cosmic justice for the admitted costs imposed on the criminals. If there isn't a safe set of assumptions about the costs you'll pay for crime, if you can count on leniency, people's sympathies meaning you can resume your life after taking another person's, then indeed those offenders will be treated better, but potentially at the expense of an increased aggregate amount of offenses. I don't think anyone who is worried about making the wrong call on that inherent balancing act is a psychopath.
Great interview. Great journalism by Zach.
He's the last prosecutor I'd want in charge of the upcoming Nuremberg 2.0 trials.
Huh?
There is no "upcoming" Nuremberg. Take your meds, schizo.
Upcoming ?
He thinks he's not still naive.
The narratives about progressive prosecutors are not "false".
So it's all about power, not justice. 562 murders is a symptom he permits. He needs to go.
I started watching this video as a skeptic of him and other progressive DA's then he started winning me over a bit by bit, then started to lose me, when he started blaming others (past DA's, the State Legislature, The insurrectionists, the past, etc..., etc). Proving he is just another politician unwilling to take responsibility for the bad as well as the good under his watch. Furthermore he wraps in under the blanket of social justice.
This DA acts like a politician and lies like one. While I certainly can give him kudos for sitting down with Reason, his demeanor was slimy and many statements were just patently false or amounted to inappropriately bad comparisons. I'm glad that ZW put in the interlude about the low-statistic rural areas going from 1 to 4 murders year to year vs. big cities blossoming 50%+, and would have liked to see what the response would have been if that type of statistic was put in line of the interview.
Giving someone a life sentence after taking a life is preventing further victimization. DUH
Very emblematic of modern politics. Mr. Krasnodar takes all that time to explain his implementation of criminal justice reform, only to end it on “incarceration is slavery 2.0” without taking the time to unpack that statement. Newsflash: most people haven’t read Brian Stevenson. You’re not even going to explain the thought process? You’re really going to take all that time to make your case for a new approach, only to squander your goodwill by pretending that you shouldn’t need to explain why “black people are property” = “remove people who commit crimes from society”?
Denominators matter in statistics. duh. lol
These politicians.
Oh wow, these creeps will spew nonstop lies on camera. Maybe they really do believe their own crap.
I think his statement at 38:43 is the most telling. Essentially, even though everyone is scared and crime is at its all time worst, people won’t stray from party lines to try something different
Probably not, not until it’s their family member murdered, their neighborhood destroyed by crime. F Krasner and everyone who keeps him in office.
I'd like to see more civilians taking matters into their own hands and stopping violent criminals in perpetuity. I mean, remove the middleman. Reduce the financial burden. Most importantly, clean up the streets of rapists, murderers and all around violent people breakers of laws. If you're not violent, we can work with that. Otherwise, let's reduce the amount of violent criminals in prison by ending them when they're in the act of committing violent crimes against vulnerable people. Saves money and prevent the trauma of innocent vulnerable law abiding people.
Kyle Rittenhouse did the country a favor
This mode of thinking is why your country is doomed to failure.
Issue with that is DA’s love to prosecute people for self defense.
@@adammuncy8475 Absolutely. You are not wrong.
@@acex222 Which mode of thinking? Explain. Also, if you knew anything about how America is structured you know that cities and states may fall (have fallen) but America? Nah. Again, you'd have to have a commanding understanding of geopolitics. Half the EU would have to fall before that would be a concern.
He keeps saying covid caused crime, but I think it’s blm and democrat agitation that has spiked most crime.
No doubt. Democrat rioters were allowed to continue they're destruction during covid.
Is it possible to call them gunFIRE homicides? How many people are beaten to death with gun butts?
Just imagine if all gun possession arrests were listed as generic "weapons." Many more knives are confiscated than gun--and usually the confiscated knives don't result in charges. Check with the TSA and ask them how many knives they collect against how many guns.
It's harder to figure out what the problem is when everything gets lumped together. No wonder crime is setting records.
He says he didn't commit a crime but he is an experienced attorney, even violent felons plead not guilty. If you were to get the opposite view point I am pretty sure they would have objective evidence on the contrary. Reason didn't do a very good job at balancing the conversation, but over all it was good to talk to him.
The end was pure confession through projection
In the same breath he says people are scared of rise in violent crime then accuses his opposition of running fear-based campaigns. Maybe the opposition is just trying to address the concerns of the voters. How about stick to explaining the logic of how your ideas of reducing crime are better and less accusations and I'll be more likely to accept them.
No, Democrat Party voters are responsible.
“They purchased a firearm legally but don’t have a permit to carry” because you don’t issue permits to carry unless you’re politically connected and have lots of money.
PA accepts some other states carry permits. my AZ permit is valid there. if it's hard to get one in PA they should just get like a Utah OOS permit or something
@@SubieNinja Thank you for that information I have no idea, I figured most democrat run cities it would be very hard to do
Larry Krasner is awesome and what Philadelphia needs. He got 29 wrongfully convicted people exonerated.
I used to like reason and the mag, but as of the past couple of years I have been realizing that they are not what I originally thought. They have become progressive lite regime libertarians and it is rather sad. I guess I'll stick with anti-war.
I agree with your general sentiment but I think in this interview they didn't fairly decent job about pushing back on his lies.
I would have liked more about how prosecutor's suggests to the judges what bail should be, so he is lying when he claims to not be involved in the process.
But overall I would like to see more videos like this for a Reason. As many of their stances in other videos seem to be based off they're dislike of certain politicians rather than a logical one.
The arrogance on display is astounding - rivaled only by the expertise in deflection.
One word, delusional
"We came in.." Complaining about going into a situation caused by 60 years of unopposed control by *your* party.
...your job isn't to seek a ideological goal to not be worst than Russia... your job is to protect peoples lives and property, if they do the crime they do the time. If you want to not be like Russia teach the kids not to commit crimes.
It's everybody but him
lot of soft balls here
I got the feeling the interview would have ended otherwise. He does fact check his numbers tho.
@@DashCamSamVids you know that really is true. Well it was true at least for the one point that I can remember about which cities are governed by democrats. But beyond that it was the prosecutor saying whatever he wanted to say
Lying his ass off at 21 minutes
Quick question: are the people actually committing more crimes?
Yes
No. Repeat offenders are being given the opportunity to commit more crime. There are not magically more criminals.
@@katiek.8808 you mean in America? As in Americans don’t behave differently than people in say… Japan, Norway or Singapore? Just want to make sure I am understanding correctly.
People in my state got early release. One went on to commit a mass shooting killing 12 another chopped up a old lady
@@soulfuzz368 the video is about Philly . Why would I be talking about anywhere else? This loser can admonish us on the other side of the state all he wants but the primary reason he is being impeached by western Pa is because he keeps breaking state law by arresting state CCW holders who visit his city.
Did this guy say recalls are not democratic?
Not technically, no. He said the impeachment process in his state is corrupt
Nope... fatherless homes is the main culprit.
85% democrat. As always, there's your problem.
This guy must be smoking crack. There's not been a decline in funding of school for poor people. The Pell Grant has been expanded in amount and ease of access like never before.
24:17 “There no question that there is a correlation between poverty and economic failure”
*facepalm*
Well there is no question that there is a correlation between the blue sky and colours on the rainbow. So… what’s his point again?
Yes, the majority party can boot out minority candidates. How is that undemocratic?
I have a solution that isn't slavery--radiation therapy! Instead of incarceration, upon conviction and after judicial review apply 30 REMs instead of a year in prison. Radiation is cumulative, must like spending time in a cage. Within 24 hours of treatment, discharge the felon and give the felon back all civil rights. Ten years in prison under the current system, or be release in 24 hours with 300 REMs -- which is worse?
"The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost." Don't believe the lies from this guy.
Lock the Criminals up!!!
Partly, next question.
Oh, look at that, a counterexample to Betteridge's Law of Headlines. You don't see that every day.
Philadelphia had the highest rate of incarnation at the time of independence. What is his point?
Do crime - do time - that's all
Zach Weissmueller is really just a super interviewer.
Crime is on the rise everywhere! Have you ever stopped and asked yourselves what's going on? We are living in what's known as "perilous times," i. e. extreme danger (not inclusive of crime only), the last days - that's what's going on people, open your eyes! What's happening has nothing to do with politics or policies!
Of course it has to do with policies. People react to incentives, this is a really basic level of common sense.
Love this guys idea on impeachment. "These people aren't from my city so they should not be allowed to impeach me."
Sounds great, can the federal government stop taxing me because Joe Biden isn't my neighbor? Guy sounds like a "criminal" lawyer if you catch my drift.
Remember "Law" is his field.
The reason the incarceration rate is an issue is because collectivists ascription of fault to the greater community as a whole. If the claim is made the offender is just a product of compelled heteronomous societal inputs , then the first thing to do is apply rehabilitative processes and techniques. Not punishment. If the offender can after make noises of repentance, he's released. Conservatism claims an offender is an individual and arraignment must delve into the persons motive for the offense and capacity of agency to cause the same.
Reason really needs to put out a 41 minute video deciphering this?
Does Nick Gillespie still need convincing so that he and Bill Maher can applaud each other for being self aggrandized "pioneers" on this historic revelation?
What a character; quite the interesting interview!
How nice. What about the 400+ murders, 1000+ car jacking Philly so far this year?
Zach, you guys at Reason do amazing work. One of the few places where there’s truly unbiased analysis of our policy issues. Keep up the good work!
Glad to hear both sides on this, but no matter how you dress this up, this guy is undermining democracy. The people came to a conclusion on how society should be run and this guy is exploiting loopholes to ensure that they don't get their way. Yes, the concept of bail is weird. That doesn't give you the right to ignore it. Its his job to uphold the law, not dictate it.
He is controlled by the loudest voices in the house.. The defund the police mob.
Is this satire??..
Zach... a really good interview. Great job.
Posession is not an indicator of a disease, the correlation is very weak. Quality of life reducing symptoms are an indicator that there is one or more issues somewhere, but it isn't as simple as a scapegoat cause. Some people deal with a clusterfuck of a life situation and these factors produce similar looking net outcomes but are not identicle in actual cause & therefore solution. Let them figure it out for themselves and don't add to their problems based on indirect evidence. IE only prosecute actual physical harm to others.
This guy is a loon
The more freedom a society has, the more incarcerated it will be. It's not rocket science. It comes with the territory.
More freedom = more freedom to commit crimes
Well this is going to be interesting...
33:20
"George Soros funded you."
I don't want to get too far into the weeds!
This is fascinating someone who I think has fantastic ideas about how to reform the prosecution side of justice, yet is batshit crazy brainwashed on team blue talking points.
That being said whilst his ideas being good is a positive, someone who is that bias politically shouldn't be allowed to be a prosecutor, I bet his conservative conviction rate increase is insane.
Thanks for featuring Philly!
we need more people like this in government!
Correlation is not causation. Only time will show if these changes will become a net benefit.
HahaHhaahaha! go get your booster shot!!!
Man, it must be nice to feel safe enough to sit around and wait and see what happens when the criminal class learns there are no consequences for their actions.
When the kids can't read, they become adults who turn to crime as an occupation.
Nonsense.
In old days, they start a business.
@@notanemoprog Reading Proficiency in Illinois, October 25th, 2022. THE KIDS CANNOT READ.
"A Wirepoints analysis of Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) data comparing pre-Covid 2019 student outcomes versus those in 2021 shows that the number of students able to read at grade level dropped from 37 out of every 100 students - already dismal - to just 31 out of every 100. That’s a drop of 18 percent.*
The results for black students were even worse - a 36 percent decline - with just 11 of every 100 black students able to read at grade level in 2021."
According to the Correctional Education Association and other statistical data, the illiteracy for adult inmates is estimated at 75 percent.
When the kids are biologically predisposed to behave like savage moronic animals, they do.
Larry Krapner
This guy is full of it. Philly is a nightmare. Krasner is not prosecuting violent criminals.
aka "Let them all loose Larry"
One has to be careful when using standard statistics, that is rates per 100,000 people, when comparing areas of high population(cities) to areas of low population(rural towns) because then the numbers generated become skewed in favor of the high population cites. But in absolute terms it's obvious that rural or more rural settings have far fewer problems with violent crime, because there are far fewer people to commit crime.
not sure what are you referring to by skewing in favor, but big cities' numbers get pumped up by the people transiting through them, so the real population is higher than the one in statistics, so per capita rates seem higher than they really are
@@alphatauri5736 This would be a very long and detailed discussion to do it justice, but in a nut shell, I am talking about using (rate per 100,000) to compare some place of significantly smaller population to another place of significantly greater population. i.e. Alturas, Ca pop. 2,618 vs Sacramento, Ca pop. 485,000 pop. Last time Alturas had any homicides was 2014 and there were 4 (absolute number) and their rate/100,000 was calculated to be 149.2/100,000 vs. Sac with 28 homicides and their rate/100,000 was 5.8/100,000. Making it look like Sac is a much safer place than Alturas, but the stats lack any context and the numbers give a false equivalence when comparing these two geographic areas.
I have a friend who repo cars in his early 20s he always said the country home were scary because he said people in the city may or may not have a gun…in the county 100% they have a gun.
@@User-54631 Repossessing autos isn't exacty a job without some risk in the first place, but yeah it's a good assumption that people who live in rural area are into guns and know how to use them, i.e. hunting. But the population is smaller and everyone is able to know who they can trust and who to stay away from, because everyone knows everybody else's business. In urban areas there's too many people and you can't possibly know friend from foe with the very large number of people residing there plus all the transient strangers coming and going on a daily basis.
Possession of druqs = okay
Selling of druqs = horrible crime
Why? Because reasons.
Possessing drugs doesn't hurt anyone.
Selling drugs preys on people and destroys society.
@@adoe2305 That's exactly the same argument the Left uses about quns.
SeIIlng a qun or a druq does not prey on anyone. A person must seek and find a qun or druq seIIer.
SeIIlng a druq does not dstry anything. If anything, it's economic activity.
@@karozans Marketing extremely addicting substances to people does destroy society.
Not too bright are ya? If you think drug use doesn't cause harm, go to one of the numerous homeless camps and have fun(:
@@adoe2305 No it doesn't, princess.
You know what else is extremely addlctlng? Sugar, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, s3x and prescription druqs. Do those things dstry society?
I never said that druqs don't cause h4rm. They just don't dstry society.
The vast majority of hmIs people are not hmls because of druqs. Studies show that people turn to druqs AFTER they become hmIs when they Iose all hope.
@@karozans People don't commit crimes, go homeless, and overdose on sugar XD XD XD
Okay kid 🙄 leave your mom's basement, go to skid row, and tell me drugs don't destroy society
Ahh yes. You talk about the liberal side of libertarians, and *all* the libertarians disappear.
Because libertarians may be liberal in individualist ways, and aggressively not so in collectivist ways. Progressives are collectivist, even when they aren't socialist, it's somewhat wrong to say they're liberal. Asserting some kind of national unity and culpability in arbitrary cross national comparisons isn't the kind of thing that will sell libertarians on the seriousness of a problem, it won't even sell a lot of liberals. The documented moral psychology of liberals and libertarians would explain the "disappearance" of libertarians when progressives make collectivist arguments to try to bring in the former two categories.
"Trump cities". Lol.
We've got no social safety nets, 90% of jobs don't pay a living wage, and upward mobility has gone the way of the Dodo bird.
Of course violent crime is going to increase. The only difference between a criminal and an upstanding citizen is desperation.
If that was at all true, which it isn't, then it would rely on an assumption that criminals were rational but desperate, and are in fact elastically responsive to economic conditions. Thus, you'd expect the proportion of violent criminal offenders to increase in more lucrative areas. Murder for hire, armed robbery, not aggravated assault, murder, rape. You'd expect more drug dealers, not more bar fights and shootouts.
What social safety net gets rid of a rapists desire for power? What "living wage" will stop crimes of passion?
This guy blathers on about discernment for diversion programs, Where I live there's a "high utilizer" list. They have 50-75 charges each are given voluntary treatment that they don't attend . Diversion programs they don't take advantage of and they consistency reoffend.
Please go to Port Townsend, WA, incarceration of innocent people is one of the most profitable businesses there.
"conviction rates for homicides.. are extremely high" because you don't prosecute crimes that eventually lead to these. You only prosecute the extreme cases.
The rate of recidivism is 1/6 according to him. How is that great if out of every 6 people that you don't prosecute, 1 of them commits another major crime?
I love this city. With the violence in this city, I'm actively trying to move my parents out. It just isn't safe any more and the fault starts with Krasner.