How Dare Left-Wing Prosecutors Insist Their Policies Are ‘Working’ While a Murder Surge Disproportionately Slaughters Black Americans

Considering the unprecedented murder surge in America's cities over the last two years, one might expect progressive district attorneys to reconsider the policies that have kept criminals out of jails and on the streets.

Think again.

Last week, Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner told a local television news anchor he's not prepared to change course.

'It is working,' Krasner claimed, a few days after another mass shooting had killed a 14-year-old football player and wounded four of his teammates following a high school scrimmage.

The anchor noted incredulously that a thousand people had been killed in Philadelphia over 20 months.

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Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor at City Journal, and the author of The War on Cops.

This piece originally appeared in Daily Mail UK