{"id":74718,"date":"2021-11-24T19:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T01:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=74718"},"modified":"2021-11-24T19:46:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T01:46:29","slug":"74718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=74718","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Killadelphia Update<\/a><\/p>\n

Last year,\u00a0the per-capita homicide rate in Philadelphia was worse than Chicago<\/a>. It takes a lot of effort to be worse than Chicago, but Philadelphia \u2014 a\/k\/a \u201cKilladelphia\u201d \u2014 is up to the challenge, and is now on pace to break the city\u2019s all-time annual murder total of 500, a record set in 1990 at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic. Basically, you could put police crime-scene tape around the entire city; every sidewalk in Philadelphia is covered in chalk outlines of slain victims.<\/p>\n

OK, maybe I got a little carried away there, but it\u2019s difficult to exaggerate\u00a0how deadly conditions are in Philadelphia now<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said on Monday that whoever was responsible for\u00a0killing a pregnant woman and her unborn child<\/strong>\u00a0as she was\u00a0unloading gifts from her baby shower<\/strong>\u00a0will face two counts of murder.
\nThe victim, identified as Jessica Covington, 32, was\u00a0shot 11 times in the head and belly<\/strong>\u00a0on Saturday night in what police believe was a targeted shooting.<\/p>\n

Deputy Police Commissioner Christine Coulter demanded that progressive DA Krasner take action amid a massive surge of gun violence.
\n\u2018Children are getting shot, unborn children getting shot, what is the city doing about this?\u2019 she asked.<\/p>\n

Police were said to be questioning a suspect in connection with Covington\u2019s killing on Monday, but no arrests or charges have been announced as of late afternoon.
\nSpeaking at a press conference on Monday, Krasner said Covington\u2019s killing made him \u2018sick.\u2019 He said the person or persons who took the pregnant woman\u2019s life and that of her unborn baby will \u2018very likely\u2019 face two counts of murder.
\nHe praised police for \u2018working nonstop and doing an amazing job with this case.\u2019<\/p>\n

Krasner has cut the number of prosecutions for gun crime and cops are blaming him for a huge spike in shootings a homicides<\/strong>.
\nPolice in Philadelphia have made a record number of arrests for illegal gun possession this year \u2013 but the suspects\u2019 chances of getting convicted dropped to 49 per cent from 63 per cent in 2017, analysis by the found.
\nThere have been 491 homicide victims in 2021 \u2013 a 14 per cent increase from last year\u2019s number of 436, and 283 in 2019.
\nKrasner boasts on his website that he has cut incarceration rates by 24,800 years, cut supervision by 102,400 years, never used the death penalty and helped exonerate 23 people.
\nPolice Commissioner Danielle Outlaw has said that\u00a0Philadelphia\u2019s criminal justice system has become a \u2018revolving door\u2019 for repeat gun offenders<\/strong>\u00a0since Krasner was sworn into office in January 2018.<\/p>\n

This is the problem with Democrats talking tough on gun control. You hear them talk about \u201cgetting guns off our streets,\u201d but they don\u2019t want to prosecute the people who are actually committing crimes with those guns \u2014\u00a0because all the criminals are Democrats<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dana Pico at First Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0has been following the grisly \u201cKilladelphia\u201d death toll, and\u00a0Ed Driscoll at Instapundit<\/a>\u00a0calls attention to the role of \u201cprogressive reforms\u201d in\u00a0the nationwide crime wave<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[Milwaukee County DA John] Chisholm, who was elected in 2007, supports deferrals for some misdemeanors and \u201clow-level\u201d felonies in order to cut down on incarcerations. And he\u2019s taken credit for inspiring a new wave of prosecutors in cities like San Francisco, St. Louis, and Philadelphia who have enacted similar reforms. Chisholm congratulated San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin following his election in 2019, and the pair spoke at a forum earlier this year on the status of the progressive prosecutor movement.<\/p>\n

Chisholm and other progressives support reforms to the cash-bail system, which they say criminalizes poverty<\/strong>. He has acknowledged that his reform-minded approach could\u00a0put murderers back on the streets<\/strong>\u00a0of Milwaukee.
\n\u201cIs there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into [a] treatment program, who\u2019s going to go out and kill somebody?\u201d he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2007. \u201cYou bet. Guaranteed. It\u2019s guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.\u201d
\nThe Milwaukee DA said his office recommended $1,000 bail for [Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell] Brooks following his arrest on Nov. 5 on charges that he punched his girlfriend in the face and hit her with his vehicle in a gas station parking lot. The woman is identified only by her initials in court papers, which indicate they have a child together. Brooks was also charged with eluding police officers when they arrived to take him into custody.<\/p>\n

What Democrats don\u2019t want to admit is that crime is a people problem. It is easy to focus on guns, but the inanimate object does not kill people. Democrats have trained their media allies to mindlessly repeat the phrase \u201cgun violence,\u201d but\u00a0my<\/em>\u00a0guns are not involved in violence. My podcast partner\u00a0John Hoge<\/a>\u00a0has a rather substantial arsenal of firearms, none of which has ever been involved in \u201cgun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhetoric that demonizes law-abiding gun owners is necessary to the Democratic Party agenda of absolving themselves and their constituents of responsibility. Nothing that goes wrong in Philadelphia \u2014 or Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, etc. \u2014 is the fault of the people directly involved, because\u00a0those people vote Democrat<\/em>. The voters who elect Democrats must be held blameless for their problems, and the blame must be transferred to scapegoats \u2014 which is why phrases like \u201cwhite privilege\u201d and \u201csystemic racism\u201d have entered the political lexicon.<\/p>\n

The kind of \u201creforms\u201d implemented by Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner are aimed at ending the \u201cracial injustice\u201d of putting criminals in prison, as if there were something deliberately\u00a0unfair<\/em>\u00a0about the demographic profile of the prison population, as if law enforcement and the court system were letting white criminals go unpunished. Well, where are all these white murderers in Philadelphia? What has Larry Krasner done to end the \u201cwhite privilege\u201d that lets these perpetrators get off scot-free?<\/p>\n

These are rhetorical questions, obviously. The population of Philadelphia County is 44% black and 34% non-Hispanic white. Fifteen percent of the county population is Hispanic and 8% are Asian. But these other demographic groups are not implicated in the \u201cgun violence\u201d epidemic that has Philadelphia on pace to set a new homicide record.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Joe Biden officially\u00a0won Pennsylvania by a margin of 80,555 votes<\/a>. He got 603,790 votes in Philadelphia County.<\/p>\n

So the dishonest blame game will continue, and the bodies of homicide victims will keep piling up in \u201cKilladelphia,\u201d because Democrats like Larry Krasner don\u2019t want to arrest the criminals whose votes elect them.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Killadelphia Update Last year,\u00a0the per-capita homicide rate in Philadelphia was worse than Chicago. It takes a lot of effort to be worse than Chicago, but Philadelphia \u2014 a\/k\/a \u201cKilladelphia\u201d \u2014 is up to the challenge, and is now on pace to break the city\u2019s all-time annual murder total of 500, a record set in 1990 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-goobermint","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74719,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74718\/revisions\/74719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}