The race at will become the next best prosecutor of Philadelphia went to the church of West Filadelphia on Sunday afternoon, when District Prosecutor Larry Krasner I former judge of the City Court Pat Dagan overtook candidates on the forum, which was sometimes tense, but generally civilian.
This event was not the same kind of romance with gloves that appeared in other forums in recent weeks, on which two men often publicly frustrated with each other and sometimes resorted to calling the names.
Despite this, Krasner and Dugan, both Democrats, explained that they had different views on how successful the first terms of the Krasner in office were successful. And there were moments when men each other.
For example, Dugan has repeatedly tried to indicate episodes in which the judges questioned or criticized the Krasner’s office as devoid of honesty, while Krasner sketched that Dugan had “an exclusive court” and later suggested that Dugan “basically put ambitions before the fact, before his own career.”
In total, the candidates talked for about an hour, touching subjects as diverse as training, forfeiture of civil assets, mental health and building trust with the community. Their comments appeared after a dozen or so court candidates took place on the pitch at the same event that took place in the Baptist church of Mt. Carmel.
Here are some noteworthy answers from a part of the event with the participation of Krasner and Dugan.
Questioning Krasner’s employees
One of the main critics of Krasner Dugan was what he described as a lack of experience among lawyers in the Krasner office. And he said several times on Sunday that Krasner did not prepare sufficiently prosecutors to deal with convoluted matters.
Dugan said that when he was on the bench, he knew about cases in which the younger lawyers employed by Krasner looked for judges behind the closed door to admit that they were not sure what to do in the courtroom. He also referred to the criticism of the lack of experience and the lack of mentoring that some were employees I did in publicAnd the dozens of lawyers said, who was employed by Krasner, has already left the office.
“Will we have a new selection of the sketch and not show him the textbook?” Said Dugan. “It happened … since 2018.”
Krasner said that the claim was simply bad – that recent employees in his office receive more trainings than offered under his predecessors. He also said that the turnover among his staff was not as bad or historically anomal as Dugan suggested, and that he would release the numbers to show it. (He did not specify when or in what form.)
It was during the defense of his employees as “the best and the most talented” and “incredibly talented” that he waved to the venerable work of Dugan, calling the task of a judge of the “court of offense” and adding: “There is a reason why I did not include Judge Dugan at our training.”
Differences in the case of exnes
One of Krasner’s initiatives emphasized that his office overwhelming venerable beliefs and free people from prison.
Prosecutors did this Over 50 times From 2018, according to statistics published by the Krasner office. And Krasner said on Sunday that he was “extremely proud” from the office of the office in this matter.
“Our administration is considered a national leader in the field of honesty of belief,” he said.
Dugan agreed to make sure that beliefs have honesty is an crucial function of the office of the District Prosecutor – and added that he would want to add staff to this unit if he was elected.
But he quickly noticed that Krasner was publicly criticized by some judges for the way his administration coped with some matters, including at the beginning of this month, when the city judge imposed a fine of USD 120,000 and rebuked Krasner’s office in the way he secured his first action in 2018.
“We have to make sure now when we look [potential exonerations]That we do it properly, as well as with ethics – said Dugan.
Political differences
Most of the discussion Sunday focused more on what every man had done earlier, unlike what he could do if he was chosen.
In addition to emphasizing the purifications and his recruitment efforts, Krasner said that he tried to expand the use of subversive programs and is still looking for new approaches that could strengthen law enforcement and public security. He pointed out that the city currently has one of the lowest levels of violence using weapons for decades-Trend, which lasted a few years after the city saw the record results of murder and shooting during a pandemic.
“The point is for people to be safer,” said Krasner.
Meanwhile, Dugan said that he believed that the reduction of crime was more caused by the new mayor of the city and the police commissioner, not Krasner. And he emphasized his work, which helps in creating and supervising the city of veterans of the city, strengthening mental health services in court and helping in developing a program to redirect the court’s eviction.
“I am an avid democrat who believes in the second chance and I did it,” he said.
