{"id":20074,"date":"2025-10-30T20:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20074\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:26:06","slug":"krasner-against-dugan-philadelphia-district-attorney-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20074\/","title":{"rendered":"Krasner against Dugan: Philadelphia District Attorney election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, voters will select Philadelphia\u2019s next District Attorney.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Judge Patrick Dugan describes himself as an \u201cindependent Democrat.\u201d Six months after losing the Democratic primary, he is running as a Republican in Tuesday\u2019s general election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, Democrat and current DA Larry Krasner is seeking reelection. He has been Philadelphia\u2019s District Attorney since 2018. Before assuming office, Krasner was a civil rights attorney here in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates DA Krasner and Dugan join us this hour for back-to-back interviews. We ask them to share their vision for criminal justice in the city and their plan to make Philly streets safer. We press them on issues like cash bail, police accountability and retail theft. And we discuss some of the criticism around the handling of the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/kada-scott-death-cause-philadelphia-medical-examiner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kada Scott murder case<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Join us to hear Larry Krasner and Pat Dugan make their case to be Philadelphia\u2019s top prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.judgeduganforda.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Dugan<\/a> \u2013 former Philadelphia judge and Republican candidate for DA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krasnerforda.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Krasner<\/a> \u2013 District Attorney of Philadelphia and Democratic candidate for DA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, voters will select Philadelphia\u2019s next District Attorney.\u00a0 Former Judge Patrick Dugan describes himself as an \u201cindependent Democrat.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[836,882,69,71,70,12736],"class_list":{"0":"post-20074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-election-2025","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-studio-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20074","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=20074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}