{"id":152803,"date":"2026-03-31T00:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152803\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:31:12","slug":"philadelphia-district-attorney-requests-more-city-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152803\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia district attorney requests more city funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>With Philadelphia in the midst of <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/philadelphia-mayor-cherelle-parkers-budget-plan-proposes-new-taxes-hotels-deliveries-ride-shares\/18764242\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">budget season<\/a>, District Attorney Larry Krasner laid out the funds his office is requesting for the new fiscal year, such as extra personnel to target repeat domestic violence offenders.\n<\/p>\n<p>Krasner is asking for roughly $4.5 million in new funds for the 2027 fiscal year. During a news conference Monday, he said the amount of money his office is requesting is \u201cminute\u201d compared to Mayor Cherrell Parker\u2019s proposed $6.9 billion budget.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire [DA] budget is on the order of $50-60 million,\u201d Krasner said. \u201cWhat is that? One-tenth of 1% of the city\u2019s budget to support 650 to 700 incredibly hard-working people.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>The office wants $1.1 million for more resources to go after repeat domestic violence offenders in the city. Katrina Wadas, the supervisor of the office\u2019s Family Violence and Sexual Assault unit, said her staff currently consists of 19 others, including herself, with a caseload of more than 1,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope \u2026 the city will support and continue to support initiatives that serve survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, with a goal of making the city a safer place for women and girls,\u201d Wadas said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,63965,28620,71,70],"class_list":["post-152803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-budget","tag-philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}