Do You Think a Woke DA Can Change?

Can a leopard change his spots? Woke Philadelphia DA finally gets tough: Says whoever killed pregnant woman will face TWO murder charges for killing her and her unborn baby as cops question a suspect

It is too little to late.

First the main detail of this case:

Jessica Covington, a 32-year-old pregnant Philadelphia woman, was shot dead on Saturday night as she was unloading gifts from her own baby shower.

Because of the public outcry the DA is suddenly interested in enforcing the law. Suddenly.

There have been 491 homicide victims in 2021 - a 14 per cent increase from last year's number of 436, and 283 in 2019.

Krasner boasts on his website that he has cut incarceration rates by 24,800 years, cut supervision by 102,400 years, never used the death penalty and helped exonerate 23 people.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw has said that Philadelphia’s criminal justice system has become a 'revolving door' for repeat gun offenders since Krasner was sworn into office in January 2018.

Because keeping violent criminals in jail is unfair, so he's been turning them loose. And low and behold they have a 14% increase in murders. Who could have foreseen that?

Actually, anyone with 2 brain-cells to run together would have predicted that outcome.

Hat tip to The Other McCain and Killadelphia Update.

Last year, the per-capita homicide rate in Philadelphia was worse than Chicago. It takes a lot of effort to be worse than Chicago, but Philadelphia — a/k/a “Killadelphia” — is up to the challenge, and is now on pace to break the city’s all-time annual murder total of 500, a record set in 1990 at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic. Basically, you could put police crime-scene tape around the entire city; every sidewalk in Philadelphia is covered in chalk outlines of slain victims.

There is more info at both links. Click thru. In particular, The Other McCain has info on the nationwide crime wave that has been fostered by "progressive" reforms of the Criminal Justice System.

And then there is this, from Robert Stacy McCain:

Rhetoric that demonizes law-abiding gun owners is necessary to the Democratic Party agenda of absolving themselves and their constituents of responsibility. Nothing that goes wrong in Philadelphia — or Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, etc. — is the fault of the people directly involved, because those people vote Democrat. The voters who elect Democrats must be held blameless for their problems, and the blame must be transferred to scapegoats — which is why phrases like “white privilege” and “systemic racism” have entered the political lexicon.

Go on, read the whole thing