PHILADELPHIA - After surviving a challenge in the Democratic primary, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner will now face GOP challenger Charles Peruto Jr.
In Tuesday’s election. May’s primary was seen as a referendum on whether a wave of prosecutors elected on promises of criminal justice reform — measures like shorter probation and parole and a curtailing of cash bail that disproportionately keeps poor defendants confined before trial — would be blamed for increasing violence.He beat challenger Carlos Vega, who billed himself as a third option between traditional law-and-order prosecutions and reform.Critics have placed the blame on Krasner and other progressive prosecutors for the increase in gun crimes.