A little over a month ago, George Soros-backed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner stated that, despite a record number of homicides for the year, the city did not have a “crisis of crime.”
Then yesterday, the Philadelphia Police Department published an instructional guide on how to survive carjackings, which have become alarmingly common in the City of Brotherly Love as part of its “not a crisis.”
The city had 720 carjackings in 2021, a 76% increase from its 2020 total of 409. One of the carjackings involved Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon — a teenager held her up at gunpoint before stealing her car.
Two days ago, a Philadelphian fought off an attempted carjacking by shooting the perpetrator.
Things are worse than ever in the City of Brotherly Love. Danielle Outlaw, the Philadelphia police commissioner, was mad.
“There is no single issue that is more important to me, or the members of the Philadelphia Police Department, than fighting the surge of violent crime that continues to plague our city,” Outlaw said in a released statement. “One of the more disturbing trends that we have seen in Philadelphia is the startling increase in the number of carjackings, the taking of a vehicle by force or fear, that have been experienced over the past two years.”
Outlaw has had enough of the violence. She said the crimes are unacceptable. She has announced the deployment of “additional resources to investigate these incidents.” And now she has provided an instructional guide for Philadelphians to survive carjackings.
The guide is separated into three sections: hot spots, scenarios, and safety tips. The hot-spots list includes a description of the areas where the carjackings typically occur. Unfortunately, it provides nearly every scenario a person can be in. It does not inspire a lot of confidence that this will get under control anytime soon.
In her statement, Outlaw put a lot of the blame on the pandemic for the reason of the increase in carjackings. But while carjackings have significantly increased in 2021, this wouldn’t explain the fact that the increase started in 2019, the year before the pandemic, or that the number of carjackings rose so dramatically between one pandemic year (2020) and the next (2021).
The main issue behind the carjackings is the city’s district attorney, who is more concerned with keeping criminals out of jails than he is with protecting the innocent. Under the guise of social justice, Krasner has made it a point to set criminals free to prey on Philadelphians. In many instances, the carjacking suspects have criminal records.
So, yes, it is a lot easier to blame the pandemic than it is to blame one’s own failed policies. As in every other city that has experienced a surge in violent crimes recently, the root of these crimes is a Soros-backed district attorney. That’s why, instead of discussing strategies to lock up the carjacking criminals, the city’s police commissioner is left explaining how to avoid getting killed during such an incident.
