When the local host pointed out to Krasner that nearly a thousand people had been murdered in his city in just the last 20 months, the DA preposterously countered that the real crime problem in America is Donald Trump and his followers. “These states in the United States that have a rate of homicide which is 40 percent higher — are MAGA states,” Krasner claimed. “They are Trump states. I’ll say it again, the rate of homicide in Trump states as compared to Biden states, take all 50 of them, is 40 percent higher.” Not content with that, he followed up with this whopper: “Eight out of ten of the most violent cities are Trump cities. Like we’ve got to get real about this. Facts matter.”
Facts matter? The highest-crime cities in America are cities that have been run by Democrats for years. No honest, rational person denies that this is so. Krasner of all people knows that it is so. He’s just spouting nonsense and hoping to get away with it. And why not? While in some cities, such as San Francisco (which ousted Chesa Boudin in a recall election in June), they’ve had their fill of the progressive-prosecutor project, Philadelphians reelected Krasner last November by a comfortable margin despite his atrocious record and lunatic policies. A once great city became a one-party, pro-criminal city, and now, as night follows day, it’s a dying city.
It is silly, in any event, for Krasner — whose sole responsibility is Philadelphia — to talk about statewide crime. Pennsylvania has a low rate of overall crime (a category that includes petty crime), but it ranks in just the middle of the pack among states in violent crime. But so what? That statistic is irrelevant to the majority of Pennsylvania counties that see few if any murders. The state number is way higher than it should be largely because of Krasner’s city, even though Philadelphia accounts for only a little over a tenth of the state’s overall population (about 1.6 million out of 13 million).
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