all the big from the beginning. michael bloomberg was part of this trying to get more progressive district attorneys in the country. it has happened and apparently it s work. i think the white house ought to ban the phrase root causes. they have so many root causes issues that they are not addressing. they have jobs numbers today and it s most like the career criminals, their jobs are secure. we are not ever going to get put in jail and made to stay there. if i was at the white house, i would definitely say we should change this up immediately on the merits of necessary because of what happened and because jessica made some great points this week. you can t tell people what they are seeing with their own eyes isn t happening. that is the surest way to make sure that you re going to fail in elections and then you can t get any of your policies done. jesse: do you have more great points? jessica: i think so. you may not think so but i think dana will.
policies that are clearly affecting americans and it is pandemic today. harris: one thing to point out a previous administration, another thing to keep choosing inanimate objects. you mentioned the pandemic, you mentioned the gun. criminals know this. they will take advantage of this. the new york post calling out billionaire george soros for bank rolling campaigns of progressive district attorneys helping them get elected across the country. they said soros has blood on his hands. greg gutfeld said this. wherever crime is exploding you find these dots, progressive soros-backed prosecutors. you can t blame soros alone. he knows how to connect the dots. like blaming the jets owner for the team s horrible record the last 10 years. he didn t create these bad players, he just pays them. he is writing checks for their
beginning. michael bloomberg was part of this trying to get more progressive district attorneys in the country. it has happened and apparently it s work. i think the white house ought to ban the phrase root causes. they have so many root causes issues that they are not addressing. they have jobs numbers today and it s most like the career criminals, their jobs are secure. we are not ever going to get put in jail and made to stay there. if i was at the white house, i would definitely say we should change this up immediately on the merits of necessary because of what happened and because jessica made some great points this week. you can t tell people what they are seeing with their own eyes isn t happening. that is the surest way to make sure that you re going to fail in elections and then you can t get any of your policies done. jesse: do you have more great points? jessica: i think so. you may not think so but i think dana will. there s three key players.
that s why you often will see laws not get passed because the power of the unions and making sure they don t get passed. they hold significant sway over elected officials. yes, democrats for a very long time, up until the last i would say five to eight years, were very much law and order, law and order. i just landed in l.a. that s why i couldn t change clothes. the bags were late. jackie lacy was boosted out as district attorney. marilyn mosby in baltimore. you have now had progressive district attorneys who have not been able to win because progressive activism. understand the value of having people d.a.s who are not aligned with the police officers. got you. getting back to this study about police killings, it was
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Will Democrats Abandon a Criminal-Justice Reformer?
Larry Krasner’s bid for reelection as Philadelphia’s district attorney will test whether a progressive prosecutor can survive a spike in gun violence.
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PHILADELPHIA On a recent Saturday morning, Larry Krasner was explaining to me why gun violence and murders have spiked in Philadelphia over the past year and why the criminal-justice reforms he instituted as the city’s district attorney are not to blame. The fault, he said, lies with the pandemic and its shutdown of schools, summer camps, job opportunities, and even municipal courts. “It was the elimination of the basic fabric in our society,” Krasner told me, “that has been protective of young people and older juveniles exactly the groups that are shooting each other.”