Philadelphia district attorney larry crasner, is defending his record and says he is tackling the ongoing violence in our city. Former deputy commissioner joe sullivan thinks krasner's reforms go too far. He had a reputation for being pretty centris politically. I totally understand the need to end mass incarceration and bal reform. People should not be put on probation for a minor offence and then technical violations. The goal any police department is to make that cord group of violent recetovus really afraid to be caught carrying a gun,. Because they know that there is a reasonable prison sentence in their future. And that is enough to make people say, i'm just leave the gun at
America's homicide rate rose by almost 30 percent in 2020. It was the biggest spike in 60 years, and the murder rate was even higher in 2021. In this repodcast, ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis explains what might be causing “The Great Regression."
Today’s show was reported and produced by Miles Bryan, Jillian Weinberger, and Alec MacGillis, with editing help from Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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