{"id":1510525,"date":"2022-06-10T14:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T18:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510525"},"modified":"2022-06-10T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T18:20:03","slug":"where-lawlessness-reigns-how-a-weak-on-crime-d-a-has-left-a-city-at-the-mercy-of-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/where-lawlessness-reigns-how-a-weak-on-crime-d-a-has-left-a-city-at-the-mercy-of-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Where Lawlessness Reigns\u2019: How A Weak On Crime D.A. Has Left A City At The Mercy Of Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhere-lawlessness-reigns-how-a-weak-on-crime-d-a-has-left-a-city-at-the-mercy-of-criminals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Last weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/three-dead-11-wounded-in-late-night-mass-shooting-in-philadelphia-restaurant-and-bar-district\">three were killed and 11 injured<\/a> in a Saturday-night gunfight on one of Philadelphia\u2019s busiest nightlife streets. Now, the truth is no longer something that can be spun or ignored: Philadelphia is one of America\u2019s most dangerous big cities. While many outside the area bemoan the recent rise in violent crime, it\u2019s nothing new to the Philadelphians who\u2019ve been forced to endure it for the last half decade, despite bearing the highest individual tax burden in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>But with national attention comes questions about whether such violence could have been prevented, and if not, what leaders are doing to address the issue and stop the carnage on our streets. In Philadelphia, these questions rarely get answered \u2013 based on the political unwillingness to enforce the law by a district attorney, mayor, and police commissioner who are in lock-step with \u201cwoke\u201d ideologies and involved in corruption scandals.<\/p>\n<p>This raises the question: if an elected official will not enforce the law, and people are dying as a result, who has the oversight responsibility to step up and hold them accountable? Unfortunately, at the state level in Pennsylvania, that responsibility falls on Attorney General Josh Shapiro, currently the Democratic nominee for governor.<\/p>\n<p>The incident at hand<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday night, June 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia-mass-shooting-south-street-deaths-police-20220605.html\">three people were killed and 11 others wounded<\/a>. According to police, several suspects fired at each other through a large crowd of nightlife patrons on the 300 block of South Street in Philadelphia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/crime\/live\/philadelphia-shooting-south-street-dead-wounded-20220605.html#card-1648974044\">Police have identified the three victims killed<\/a>, and said the 11 wounded ranged from ages 17 to 69 years old. So far, two suspects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/crime\/philadelphia-shooting-south-street-suspect-charges-20220606.html\">are in custody<\/a> and police are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/south-street-mass-shooting-third-suspect-alexis-quinn-20220607.html\">seeking a third<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After news of the incident broke, discussions erupted on social media with questions about where the police were, given the fact that this is such a busy section of the city. But <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Phillysamess\/status\/1533463656364748801?t=NwUCVyZJen1iOCbwi1y3_w&#038;s=03\">as videos of the incident emerged<\/a> showing flashing red and blue lights highlighting the area moments before the shooting started, it became clear that there was indeed a robust police presence \u2013 but that did nothing to prevent the incident.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geoffrey_Ford14\/status\/1533440144124137473?t=OYQSWf-ewmtpRCHXZ0JRXA&#038;s=03\">more videos<\/a> started to emerge on Twitter, it also became clear that the police were on the scene as the street was awash with disorderly conduct, physical assaults, and other unlawful behavior that went without interdiction leading up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>More alarmingly, a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeeleyFox29\/status\/1534110198717202432\">video interview<\/a> from local station Fox 29 shows moments after the shooting where police officers were attempting a \u201cscoop and run\u201d procedure to transport one of the victims to the hospital. As bystander Eric Walsh observed, the police cruiser was blocked by the unruly crowd chanting \u201cF\u2014k the Police\u201d as the victim lay dying in the back of their cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>In Philadelphia, this horrific event is just another example of the pattern of violent crime that has gotten worse every year since the 2017 election of District Attorney Larry Krasner. Krasner is quite possibly the most famed member of the Soros-backed progressive prosecutor movement. His election was a benchmark in political talking points from New York to California, claiming policing is systemically racist and that we must drastically reduce the charges and pre-trial detention requests filed by prosecutors for those arrested.<\/p>\n<p>To exacerbate the problem, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has imitated the progressive talking points of the District Attorney, instead of using his bully pulpit to speak for the victims of his city\u2019s tens of thousands of violent crimes. Instead of advocating for the proven public safety tactics used by the nation\u2019s fourth largest police department, Kenney replaced his original police commissioner \u2013 an African American and 26-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police \u2013 with Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw, whose largest command was less than one regional division in her new department.<\/p>\n<p>The results illustrate a clear correlation between the controversial policies of a woke mayor, an unqualified police commissioner, and a district attorney violating his oath of office by refusing to effectively prosecute violent crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur leaders\u2019 reticence to engage in proven strategies stems from the realization that when we implement deterrence efforts in the places where they are most needed, they are not racially equitable\u2026but that doesn\u2019t change the fact that these measures work,\u201d Said Temple University Criminology Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jratcliffe.net\/\">Jerry Radcliffe<\/a> in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/commentary\/mass-shooting-philadelphia-south-street-ghost-gun-20220607.html\">Op-ed<\/a> for the Philadelphia Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack and brown Philadelphians shouldn\u2019t be made to feel like they are over-policed. Equally though, they shouldn\u2019t be made to feel less safe than white residents. But that is exactly what is happening: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgvr.org\/philadelphia-shooting-victims-dashboard\/\">More than 90% of people shot so far this year are Black or Hispanic<\/a>, and it is their communities who are bearing the brunt of our failure to find a balanced approach to gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, Philadelphia Mayor Kenney\u2019s response was to blame the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania legislature, which recently reaffirmed a 1994 law preventing Philadelphia from passing the same types of unconstitutional municipal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend three were killed and 11 injured in a Saturday-night gunfight on one of Philadelphia\u2019s busiest nightlife streets. Now, the truth is no longer something that can be spun or ignored: Philadelphia is one of America\u2019s most dangerous big cities. While many outside the area bemoan the recent rise in violent crime, it\u2019s nothing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":1510585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}