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https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/976218577954099202quote:In his first week on the job, he fired 31 prosecutors from the DA’s office because they weren’t committed to the changes he intended to make. “Change is never easy, but DA Krasner was given a clear mandate from the voters for transformational change,” his spokesperson said at the time. “Today’s actions are necessary to achieve that agenda.” quote:All of that is big, but nothing is as essential and revolutionary as the internal five-page guiding document of new policies that Krasner sent to his staff. While the document appears to have been sent to the staff of the Philadelphia DA’s office on February 15, 2018, it only became public a week ago. Take some time to read it for yourself, y'all. quote:“These policies are an effort to end mass incarcerations and bring balance back to sentencing.” quote:Then, under the heading “Decline Certain Charges,” Krasner immediately instructs prosecutors to stop prosecuting marijuana possession regardless of the weight. Furthermore, he instructed prosecutors to stop charging those with marijuana with any paraphernalia crimes. quote:Krasner instructed his prosecutors to now add up and justify the exact costs of every single person sentenced to a crime in Philadelphia. Stating that the city is currently spending an astounding $360 million per year to jail around just 6,000 people, Krasner then gave examples of all of the things that such money could be doing in the city currently. Stating that it costs between $42,000 and $60,000 per year to incarcerate a person, he reminded the prosecutors that the average total family income of a person in the city was just $41,000. The annual cost of incarceration, Krasner reminded his prosecutors, was currently more per year than the beginning salary of teachers, police officers, firefighters, social workers, addiction counselors, and even prosecutors in his office.
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This man makes my social justice boner a lethal weapon. Dude probably has a few months to live before he's assassinated.
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go larry, elections matter
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Mar 21, 2018 00:53
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good on him
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some elections matter more than others Left wingers in every city should be digging around for qualified Civil Rights & public interest lawyers to get behind for DA races and elected judicial positions. in material terms the difference between a mainline moderate liberal Democrat and a radical going to, say, the state legislature is very small. The difference between a moderate liberal Democrat and a radical on the bench or in the DA’s office is very, very profound
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GalacticAcid posted:some elections matter more than others It's why when Keith Ellison floated the idea of running for AG instead of Senator I was onboard
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Quite the document. Take the time to read it, everyone! Krasner is instituting reforms that are a huge departure from the status quo. However, he's doing it cleverly, in a way that may prove popular with the public. He is requiring his DAs to grapple with the societal costs of mass incarceration, and he is requiring them to make statements on the record about how much money it will cost taxpayers to lock people up for long prison sentences. Many Americans like harsh punishments for criminals. That's why it's been a winning strategy to run for office as "tough on crime". On the other hand, Americans hate seeing their tax dollars wasted, and many of them would rather see that money go toward other expenses. Good luck to Krasner in keeping his reforms moving. This guy has definitely made himself public enemy number one of the correctional lobby. Best of luck to him, and I hope he wins.
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The power prosecutors have is really crazy, and this has shown for certain that if you want to change the practices around policing you elect good DAs. Like... holy poo poo.
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Mar 21, 2018 02:07
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krasner loving rules
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Mar 21, 2018 02:07
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appreciate the congrats for comrade krasner
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i read about krasner when he won because a leftie dem group endorsed his candidacy, he seemed pretty cool to me and it's very cool that he's walking the walk
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Some more stuff on incarceration, which puts in better context why this Krasner reform is a MASSIVE loving DEAL https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/976463002743525377 https://twitter.com/JohnFPfaff/status/976480140564815877
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Mar 21, 2018 16:34
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kranser is the cumshot king
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yes, he's very good
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What organizations recruited Krasner to run and provided the initial organizational muscle for his campaign? I've heard that prison reform / outreach / abolition groups & some flavor of communist parties were involved. I have not seen a good analysis of this and I think it's imperative to understand for forming urban electoral strategies elsewhere.
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Mar 21, 2018 18:36
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this loving rules
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GalacticAcid posted:What organizations recruited Krasner to run and provided the initial organizational muscle for his campaign? I've heard that prison reform / outreach / abolition groups & some flavor of communist parties were involved.
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Mar 21, 2018 19:23
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:this loving rules pretty much, sums up Larry Krasner as DA quite well.
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GalacticAcid posted:some elections matter more than others Krasner is extremely good. I know Shaun King is involved in a group called RealJusticePac that's providing support for other progressive DA candidates.
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K R A S N E R is spreading https://twitter.com/PhillipsforDA/status/979021077140553730 This guy is running for DA for Sacramento in California, and by the way, is not the same Noah Phillips that Trump appointed to be FTC
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in three years the current Manhattan DA, Cy Vance, will almost certainly be getting a primary challenge from Marc Fliedner. he already ran in the crowded primary in Brooklyn last year and came in third, and he moved to Manhattan a few months later. as a prosecutor, he secured a conviction for Peter Liang (a rookie cop who shot and killed a black man in a housing project in the dark), only to resign in protest after the DA's office took sentencing completely out of the hands of the judge and whittled down the punishment to almost nothing unfortunately he won't have as much influence as Krasner because NYC is split into five boroughs that have their own DAs, and they're free to have their own policies. but that's still something to keep your eyes on
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There are many prosecutor’s offices with lenient charging standards. They just don’t put it in writing.
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Krasner is about to have his first big test and it will be interesting to see how he handles it. There is about to be a trial for two brothers that killed a police officer during a holdup. The cop and his partner stop at a Gamestop so he can buy his son a game for his birthday and he walks into the robbery. He tries to stop it and they shoot and kill him. The family wants the death penalty and Krasner has stated publicly he will not pursue a death sentence. Though, in this case he has hedged his statement. This will be a case that shows how far he can carry his reforms.
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Mar 29, 2018 13:01
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He's going to save Philly a shitload of money
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Larry Krasner has the distinct honor of being the only person who can trigger Philly area maga chuds more than Hillary Clinton, they seriously go apeshit over this guy. A buddy of mine lives in northeast Philly but works in the suburbs with a bunch of chuds and they were giving him condolences after Krasner was elected, like now it's gonna be legal for BLM to break into your house and assault your dog. Our DA here in Montgomery county is the most non-distinct cookie cutter white guy who used to be a republican. He might as well be an extra on law and order.
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BootStrap posted:The family wants the death penalty and Krasner has stated publicly he will not pursue a death sentence. Though, in this case he has hedged his statement. In what way is he hedging?
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It's spreading https://twitter.com/FairPunishment/status/979374497382875137 quote:This legislative session, two bills aimed at prosecutorial accountability are being introduced in Louisiana. The first bill, known as the John Thompson Prosecutorial Accountability and Professional Standards Bill Prosecutorial Transparency Bill, establishes an oversight commission that would collect data from each district attorney’s office and make the information available to the public. The second, called the Prosecutorial Accountability Bill, would set up an 11-member commission with the power to investigate the acts of prosecutors, including calling witnesses, issuing subpoenas, and making findings of fact. The commission would also be able to issue reports and recommend impeachment proceedings against specific prosecutors for cause. quote:But the past year has seen reform-minded prosecutors win elections in other districts, bringing with them a popular push to move toward some kind of transparency. This year, some prosecutors initiated procedures to track basic data like plea bargains and charging patterns. While these measures seem simple, they have previously been elusive, and many DAs have fought to keep the information secret. For example, Kim Foxx in Chicago has agreed to make public six years of felony prosecution data. And in Florida, State Attorney Melissa Nelson, who ousted Angela Corey in 2016, is working with academics and nonprofits to assemble meaningful data to track prosecutions with the goal of improving the office’s policies. quote:Voices of the Experienced (VOTE), the primary organization behind the second bill, which creates a commission to investigate misconduct, says that the board is necessary in order to “give teeth” to the requirement that prosecutors are accountable to the public. “It’s an idea whose time has come,” Will Harrell, the senior public policy counsel of VOTE, told me over the phone. The accountability board’s composition is specifically to include lawyers and non-lawyers as well as people who have been recently incarcerated in order to emphasize the importance of lived experience and the voices of people like Thompson in addition to legal experts.
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SKULL.GIF posted:In what way is he hedging? He met with Wilson's family in West Philly and danced around the issue, not issuing a firm answer to will he / won't he ask for the death penalty. Krasner's office has declined to comment about the case. That said, I am against capital punishment by the state in any circumstance. That said, bootstrap, you have your facts wrong; Wilson was in the store, buying a game; the Hipps and Williams came in to rob the store, and when they saw Wilson they turned around and started shooting. Wilson got hit, started firing back, and began moving so that the gunfire would be in a direction away from where the other people in the store were. This is a pretty horrible crime; its also the type of case that would easily get a jury to approve the death penalty, there is clear video surveillance of the entire gunfight. Because its Philly and racial politics matter, Wilson was black, his shooters were black, Wilson's family that is asking Krasner to seek the death penalty is black.
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Mar 29, 2018 22:34
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Compromising here would be a mistake. He should decline to seek the death penalty.
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Larry Parrish posted:Assign the death penalty retroactively to the dead guy too for participating in a public gunfight So uh, Wilson should have just let himself be peacefully shot to death? Krasner was elected in Philly and is going to make a choice based on his judgement of the political reality of Philly. I hope he declines to seek the death penalty, and makes a strong statement of ‘I will never seek the death penalty’ but I suppose this will be a test of how much of a political animal he is. The man isn’t a saint, so we’ll see how he goes.
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Laphroaig posted:So uh, Wilson should have just let himself be peacefully shot to death? He should have tactically used gunkata pistol whipping to disable the perpetrators
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