PHILADELPHIA — It’s been four weeks since former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter admonished the city’s district attorney Larry Krasner in an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer for his dismissal of the city’s crime wave, calling his offhand remarks “some of the worst, most ignorant and most insulting comments [he had] ever heard spoken by an elected official.”

Krasner told reporters a couple of days earlier that Philadelphia didn’t “have a crisis of lawlessness, we don’t have a crisis of crime, we don’t have a crisis of violence” when discussing a city that at the time had seen a record 521 homicides by Dec. 1.