General Discussion

When he was first elected, he cleaned out all the bullshit crap that had gone on for decades (4 terms) under Lynn Abraham (and then the mess of the elected predecessor, who was eventually indicted and charged for fraud, bowing out and leaving an interim in until the next election), and his opponents ripped him a new one, but he persisted.

He is one of the few but growing number of "progressive" D.A.s (formerly a defense attorney), who despite some stumbles along the way, has made some significant changes to prosecuting - particularly in light of many decades of criminal police conduct that eventually ended up in the city paying out millions and millions for false arrests and malicious prosecutions.

And as a somewhat laid back and unassuming (on the outside) D.A., he is actually a firebrand when the need arises.

I have been trying to find the video clip but it's all on "social media" (TikTok, Instagram, Facebook) or on Faux Snooze. The D.A.'s office hasn't uploaded their press conference yet on their youtube channel.

But here is the Philadelphia Sheriff's comments at the same press conference (where a bunch of outlets have videos of HER remarks on youtube but not of Krasner's remarks, which is probably intentional - the local TV stations danced around his presser and only offered some selected clips of him without the money shot one) -