As a civil rights attorney in private practice, Larry Krasner sued the Philadelphia Police Department roughly 75 times. Not exactly the kind of guy you would expect to run for district attorney of Philadelphia.
Or to win.But that’s exactly what happened in 2017. Not even Krasner gave himself good odds of victory when he first entered the race.“It was a laughable shot,” he tells Deadline, “but somehow it worked.”Krasner swept into office as part of a wave of progressive D.A.s elected in cities around the country, an iconoclastic group dedicated to taking on a system many critics see as systemically racist and unfair.“This administration is going to have a progressive and frankly activist approach to criminal justice reform,” Krasner
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