“The returns from the midterm elections hold out the possibility that the public, after a decade of the movement for Black lives, is open to a more complex understanding of crime, its roots, and its solution,” KeeangaYamahtta writes.
that we are in “a struggle for democracy, a struggle for decency and dignity, a struggle for prosperity and progress, a struggle for the very soul of America itself. Make no mistake—democracy is on the ballot for us all.” He could have added to this list of assaults the efforts of the Pennsylvania Republican Party to remove the duly elected district attorney of Philadelphia, Larry Krasner.
Republicans igniting a crime panic is hardly a new ploy. The G.O.P. is reaching for a playbook that it has used for more than fifty years, since Richard Nixon called for law and order in the midst of. Nixon, wielding the new technology of the day, authorized a run of campaign ads on TV which warned of the U.S. becoming, as he put it in one speech, “an armed camp of two hundred million Americans living in fear.” Those two hundred million Americans were, of course, white Americans.
In Pennsylvania, these different strains of Republican strategy merged in the statewide struggle to remove Philadelphia’s district attorney. A former civil-rights attorney, Krasner rode into office in 2017 on a wave of anger generated by the movement for Black lives, and shocked the Philadelphia political machine by winning as an unabashed reformer. Upon taking office, Krasner cleaned house, firing thirty-one prosecutors.
said, “The city of Philadelphia cannot afford to wait any longer for us to take action on what we already know to be true: that Krasner is responsible for the rise in crime across our city due to his dereliction of duty to prosecute the guilty and to protect the innocent.”
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