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BumRushDaShow

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9. Who would have been a perfect DA is Josh Shapiro
Thu May 13, 2021, 01:03 PM
May 2021

but obviously he's got bigger (state-wide) fish to fry and has done a great job at that AG position.

Krasner in his position is sortof "experimental" because there really is no road-map for changing the investigative and prosecutorial culture in a large urban area... but apparently there is a strong demand from many quarters to do so.

I think the last time there was some effort to do more "community policing" was in the '90s under Clinton when they established the "bike cops", partly to get the cops (who had generally stopped the practice of "walking the beat" and merely drove around a neighborhood), out of their cars, and back on the streets. I.e., they could actually be "closer to the community", with more face-to-face interactions and getting to know "the regulars" in a patrol area, but also have the capability to be nimble enough to apprehend a young criminal escaping a crime scene on foot, who could dart into places no police vehicle could reach (but where a bike could provide better access and speed). But it seems they had pulled many of them out of the neighborhoods and focused them downtown.

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