1. This article – like so much of Matt’s writing – includes an abject falsehood, A TOTAL LIE, based on his stick- figure understanding of American criminal justice policy.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1376171337203470339
2. The piece falsely says, “Indeed, one of the big ideas touted by progressive prosecutors such as Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner is to stop prosecuting gun possession cases altogether.” Completely false. Easily and verifiably false. 
3. It’s true that Larry Krasner has expanded a preexisting policy that allows for the diversion to a probation-like supervision program of some first-time offenders who purchased their guns legally.
4. Those diversions represent about 3% – THREE PERCENT – of gun cases.
That is a MILLION MILES AWAY from @mattyglesias’ false claim that Larry Krasner’s “big idea” is to stop “prosecuting gun possession cases altogether.”
That is a MILLION MILES AWAY from @mattyglesias’ false claim that Larry Krasner’s “big idea” is to stop “prosecuting gun possession cases altogether.”
5. In fact contrary to @mattyglesias’ abject falsehood, under Larry Krasner prosecution of gun crimes HAS **INCREASED** TO LEVELS THAT FAR EXCEED HIS PREDECESSOR.
6. Now look, @mattyglesias is a smart and INCREDIBLY LAZY guy who constantly reduces criminal justice reformers to stick-figures in his bizarre pro-carceral morality play. So it is not at all surprising that he would lazily ignore the truth. That’s Matt’s whole m.o.
7. But there is an election going on right now in Philly. So these kind of LAZY LIES actually may impact people’s understanding of what’s going on in Philly at a critical moment. If Matt wasn’t such a lazy arrogant fuck, I would expect he would apologize and issue a correction.
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