{"id":454766,"date":"2021-04-26T05:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=454766"},"modified":"2021-04-26T05:05:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:05:40","slug":"philly-da-enjoyed-european-excursion-as-homicides-spiked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philly-da-enjoyed-european-excursion-as-homicides-spiked\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly DA Enjoyed European Excursion as Homicides Spiked"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fphilly-da-enjoyed-european-excursion-as-homicides-spiked%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=454766&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--><div readability=\"31.125\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Dark money group spent thousands to send Larry Krasner to Germany, Portugal amid deadly year<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-60.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-59.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-23-at-1.24.07-PM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-23-at-1.24.07-PM-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-23-at-1.24.07-PM-1024x679.png 1024w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia district attorney Larry Krasner  \/  YouTube Screenshot\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 April 26, 2021 5:00 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"117.63407876509\">\n<p>As Philadelphia&#8217;s top law enforcement officer spent two weeks on a jaunt through Europe financed by a liberal dark money group, the city witnessed 3 murders, 30 rapes, 63 armed robberies, and 120 assaults with a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner traveled to Germany and Portugal in May 2019, a year in which his city experienced a 12-year high in homicides. Liberal dark money group Fair and Just Prosecution footed the bill for Krasner and other attendees to learn from the European countries how to ease up on crime.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, the country&#8217;s &#8220;open&#8221; prison system\u2014in which inmates are allowed to come and go on a daily basis\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/fair-and-just-prosecution\/fjp-on-the-road-part-1-why-germany-792c9deb2336\">served<\/a> as an &#8220;innovative&#8221; example of a &#8220;compassionate&#8221; and &#8220;equitable&#8221; justice system for the United States to replicate. Portugal&#8217;s decision to decriminalize all drugs, meanwhile, was <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/fair-and-just-prosecution\/fjp-on-the-road-part-3-the-portuguese-health-model-22ce4b477bc5\">championed<\/a> by Fair and Just Prosecution as a life-saving policy American prosecutors could &#8220;bring back \u2026 to their communities&#8221; in an attempt to &#8220;reimagine&#8221; American policing.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive St. Louis circuit attorney Kim Gardner also attended the trip. She later faced criticism after sources in her office said she was &#8220;unreachable&#8221; while abroad, leading to a delay in decision-making. Krasner&#8217;s office did not return a request for comment on how the trip affected the attorney&#8217;s day-to-day work. Gun-possession conviction rates plummeted to just 49 percent in 2019, down 14 points from 2017, the year before Krasner took office.<\/p>\n<p>The European excursion appears to have influenced Krasner&#8217;s approach to criminal justice. Just months after returning to the United States, his office instituted a policy to drop all drug-possession charges if the perpetrator participates in a &#8220;treatment&#8221; program. But Krasner does not require such programs to be court-monitored, and his office does not follow up to ensure that the perpetrator completes the program before dropping charges. Twenty-twenty marked Philadelphia&#8217;s deadliest year for overdoses on record.<\/p>\n<p>Financial disclosures show that Krasner took at least 15 trips paid for by outside entities from March 2018 to October 2019, keeping him away from his office for a total of 57 days at a cost of nearly $16,000. Hundreds of violent crimes\u2014including three murders\u2014occurred while Krasner traveled through Germany and Portugal from May 6 to May 19, 2019, according to data released by the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" readability=\"9.8758865248227\">\n<div readability=\"14.813829787234\">\n<p>Fair and Just Prosecution sponsored the travel on at least seven occasions, which saw them cover nearly $9,800 in Krasner&#8217;s expenses.\u00a0Prior to Krasner&#8217;s arrival in Germany,\u00a0the group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/fair-and-just-prosecution\/fjp-on-the-road-part-1-why-germany-792c9deb2336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/medium.com\/fair-and-just-prosecution\/fjp-on-the-road-part-1-why-germany-792c9deb2336&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1619488065814000&#038;usg=AFQjCNFhXTmxGAgPgZlkIAXVo4uahDndjQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">praised<\/a>\u00a0the European nation for going to &#8220;great lengths to come to terms with its troubling past&#8221; in the &#8220;wake of Nazism and the Holocaust.&#8221; On the other hand,\u00a0Fair and Just Prosecution\u00a0argued that the United States has insufficiently addressed &#8220;its own record of human rights violations,&#8221; including &#8220;decades of racially-biased policing and criminal justice decision-making.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fair and Just Prosecution also <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/fair-and-just-prosecution\/fjp-on-the-road-part-1-why-germany-792c9deb2336\">urged<\/a> attendees to &#8220;transform our justice system&#8221; to better reflect Germany, where the &#8220;vast majority of sanctions imposed&#8221; are &#8220;fines&#8221; or &#8220;education or disciplinary measures.&#8221; Comparing crime problems in Germany and the United States, however, is &#8220;inapt,&#8221; Manhattan Institute senior fellow Rafael Mangual told the\u00a0<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. He noted that a small handful of neighborhoods in Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, and St. Louis combined to account for 13.6 percent of the homicides seen in all of Germany in 2018 while housing just 0.5 percent of the European nation&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a huge difference between our two countries, specifically with respect to the rate of serious violent crime, which is the sort of crime that generally leads to long terms of imprisonment here in the United States,&#8221; Mangual said. &#8220;We&#8217;re talking about a very, very different type of crime problem on a very, very different scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Fair and Just Prosecution&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/fairandjustprosecution.org\/news\/featured-work\/\">website<\/a>, the group is a &#8220;fiscally-sponsored project of The Tides Center,&#8221; a liberal dark money behemoth that has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/tides-center-funnels-170-million-in-taxpayer-money-to-left-wing-groups\/\">funneled<\/a> nearly $170 million in taxpayer funds to left-wing groups. Fair and Just Prosecution, like all of the Tides Center&#8217;s fiscal entities, does not file independent tax returns or disclose donors.<\/p>\n<p>The trips are not the first time Krasner has benefited from liberal outside money. Billionaire megadonor George Soros <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/george-soros-floods-local-da-races-1-7m-philadelphia\/\">poured<\/a> nearly $1.7 million into a political action committee supporting Krasner in 2017. The progressive prosecutor has also received thousands of dollars from Hollywood celebrity John Legend, who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/philly-da-held-lucrative-fundraiser-with-hollywood-headliner-hours-after-mass-shooting\/\">headlined<\/a> a fundraiser with Krasner just hours after eight people were shot in broad daylight in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Krasner is facing a contentious reelection battle as local police groups spearhead an effort to oppose his progressive reforms, which they say are driving Philadelphia&#8217;s ongoing crime spike. Krasner will square off against Democratic challenger Carlos Vega\u2014who is backed by the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police\u2014in the city&#8217;s May primary.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark money group spent thousands to send Larry Krasner to Germany, Portugal amid deadly year  Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner \/ YouTube Screenshot &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276698,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-60.png","fifu_image_alt":"Philly DA Enjoyed European Excursion as Homicides Spiked","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-60.png","fifu_image_alt":"Philly DA Enjoyed European Excursion as Homicides Spiked","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454766","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}