Murder rates skyrocketed last year in cities with Soros-funded DAs

Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and St. Louis all had either record homicide rates or huge increases in murders in 2020.

Along with skyrocketing rates of violent crimes, those cities share something else in common — their progressive district attorneys were all elected with the help of millions of dollars in contributions from leftist billionaire George Soros.

In Philadelphia, where District Attorney Larry Krasner has refused to prosecute certain crimes, 499 homicides were recorded last year, a 40 percent increase from 2019.

"It made 2020 the most violent year for the city in the past 30 years," James Varney noted in a report for The Washington Times earlier this month.

In a 2017 campaign video, Krasner said “policing and prosecution are both systematically racist,” and he called poverty and crime consequences of “mass incarceration.”