Lazy-Clock7316 t1_itr6vuv wrote on October 25, 2022 at 6:28 PM

Reply to comment by Matt-33-205 in Larry Krasner Impeachment Committee Relies on Widely Panned Journal Study by psychothumbs

What about police not pursuing or arresting violent criminals? Philly cops aren’t doing much to help curb the violence. We can’t complain about Krasner not prosecuting if police aren’t arresting people who should be in jail. And another thing, drugs are rampant Philly. I’d say it’s more likely a symptom of the pandemic and the drug crisis.

Matt-33-205 t1_itr9rj9 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 6:47 PM

I used to be a police officer, and I sympathize with the Philadelphia Police Department rank and file officers. From many officers perspectives, it has been demonstrated repeatedly over the last several years that violent criminals arrested will be released and back on the street in a revolving door justice system.

As an officer, witnessing criminals released and back on the streets can be very demoralizing. It's human nature to begin to take less risks as an officer to bring violent criminals to justice, especially when leadership in the city chooses not to prosecute, and releases them

KetchupEnthusiest95 t1_itrhgi7 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 7:36 PM

So you have a bias in this conversation because you'd rather be sympathetic to a government organization that was just recently lampooned for bilking tax payer dollars, abusing rules, wasting manpower on civilian positions with police officers and having a union that generally stands in the way of actively fixing the many corrupt issues that permeate the entire PPD.

No wonder you want to blame Krasner, it makes the PPD look better despite them playing a big part in it.

Matt-33-205 t1_itrnoao wrote on October 25, 2022 at 8:15 PM

My experience with the Philadelphia Police Department has not been positive. I was speaking personally from my experience as a police officer in a different state.