{"id":49715,"date":"2025-12-02T05:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49715\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:15:13","slug":"krasner-calls-for-city-council-to-fund-new-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49715\/","title":{"rendered":"Krasner calls for City Council to fund new initiatives"},"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>Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner appeared at a City Council hearing Monday, calling for increased funding to investigate crimes more thoroughly and arrest \u201cbig-time criminals,\u201d while also advocating for the retention of skilled attorneys who might otherwise become personal-injury lawyers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Krasner said there are many people out there who want to poach his young district attorneys, and he needs more money to keep them in their jobs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, trust me, other employers are circling all the time,\u201d Krasner told the council. \u201cWe do not need our team to run over there to work on car crashes. We need our team to be right here driving down homicide numbers, violent and property crimes across the city.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>The district attorney did not specify a number in his request, and the finance committee didn\u2019t consider giving him more money, as it was handling mid-year budget transfers between departments, not funding proposals.\n<\/p>\n<p>Undeterred, he went on to ask for even more money to set up a unit to go after big-time criminals instead of just locking up small-time drug dealers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DAO will expand our existing unit into a division to develop and foster more robust long-term and short-term investigations,\u201d Krasner told the committee. \u201cWe\u2019re not talking about little stuff on the street corner, we\u2019re talking about the big stuff, the family that has owned a corner for two decades, that\u2019s what we\u2019re talking about here.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The DA came to the hearing to voice his opinion that several departments within his office need more money, and even used Mayor Cherelle Parker\u2019s signature line to curry favor with council \u2014 and perhaps loosen the purse strings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParticularly involving prolific offenders, as well as further dismantling complex drug, sex, and labor trafficking operations in the city, all of which, of course, make us exactly what we want to be \u2014 safer, cleaner, greener, with economic opportunity,\u201d he 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":49716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2495,69,28620,71,70],"class_list":["post-49715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-district-attorneys-office","tag-philadelphia","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\/49715","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=49715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}