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Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is not a stranger to followers of the blog.\u00a0 He’s a “progressive prosecutor,” in the mold of the State’s Attorney a hundred miles south in Baltimore, the recently indicted Marilyn Mosby.\u00a0 A Facebook friend of mine, Matt Rosenberg, author of “What Next Chicago?:\u00a0 Notes of a Pissed Off Native Son,”<\/a>\u00a0 writes an on-the-ground account of what it’s like, especially for black people, living (for as long as they can) in Larry Krasner’s Philadelphia.\u00a0 I want to pass it along without comment, none being needed.<\/p>\n

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It’s a startling picture:<\/p>\n

Thursday, Ramonita Jusino turned 19. Her family was going to celebrate her birthday after her overnight shift at Walmart ended. She was talking to her abuelita and getting ready to leave for work. Then bullets came flying through the windows of the apartment in North Philly, on West Glenwood Avenue. One hit Ramona. In the heart. Now she\u2019s dead. A relative said, \u201cMy whole family, everybody is – it\u2019s hard. You kill a baby. You kill an innocent – she was innocent. Never have no problem. Good student.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friday night it was more of the same. In the city\u2019s East Mount Airy neighborhood. A 17-year-old girl sitting in a car with three other people died two hours after being shot in the head and body three times by hitters who pulled up in a black SUV. Police think someone else in the vehicle had been targeted. Collateral damage. How it goes now, right?<\/p>\n

In 2021, Philadelphia reached a new annual record for homicides: 562, according to the Philly PD crime dashboard. Previous high: 500 in 1990 at the height of the crack epidemic. So how\u2019s Philly doing halfway into the first month of the new year? Homicides so far in 2022 number 22, 29 percent higher to date than last year. As in Chicago: where it all stops, or tails off, nobody knows.<\/p>\n

But be comforted. Because Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is here to drop some knowledge on y’all.
\nIn December, after 2021 homicides had already exceeded the city\u2019s record, he said, “We don’t have a crisis of lawlessness. We don’t have a crisis of crime. We don’t have a crisis of violence.\u201d Axios reports 80 percent of 2021 murder victims in Philly were Black. To the white DA, those Black Lives Don\u2019t Matter.<\/p>\n

Former Mayor of Philadelphia Michael Nutter, a Democrat, who is Black, told CNN\u2019s Michael Smercomish: \u201cI wish some of these woke people would go back to sleep\u2026Larry Krasner has sold the citizens of this city this idea that \u2018I\u2019m going to protect you from the police, and that\u2019s all that matters\u2019…\u201d Nutter added, \u201cDo you know what the DA\u2019s nickname is up on State Road\u2026where all of our prison facilities are, his nickname is \u2018Let \u2018Em Loose Larry.\u2019 That\u2019s a disgrace.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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