Philly DA report card: The promises Krasner kept (or didn’t) in his first term
He came into office as a criminal justice reformer. How’d he do?
Krasner’s DAO
The nation’s eyes are on Philadelphia’s District Attorney’s Office to see what happens when a DAO is run by a man like Larry Krasner, a progressive former defense attorney whose stated goals include reducing the number of people behind bars.
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