Krasner ha insistito sul fatto che mentre la città ha visto un picco di violenza armata, i residenti non dovrebbero essere preoccupati per l'aumento della criminalità in generale.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner addresses the media after a press conference in 2019. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)
“We don’t have a crisis of lawlessness, we don’t have a crisis of crime, we don’t have a crisis of violence,” the district attorney told reporters at a Monday press conference. “It’s important that we don’t let this become mushy and bleed into the notion that there is some kind of big spike in crime. There isn’t. There is not a big spike in crime. … There is not a big spike in violent crime. Neither one of these things is true.”
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Despite the fact that gun violence has gone “way up,” other indicators, “which usually go up and down with gun violence,” are staying “relatively flat,” Krasner said.
