{"id":20714,"date":"2020-12-15T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/?post_type=films&#038;p=20714"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:21:36","slug":"philly-da","status":"publish","type":"films","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/documentaries\/philly-da\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly D.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">In 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania had one of the highest incarceration rates of any major city in the United States. And it\u2019s become the epicenter of a historic experiment that could shape the future of prosecution in America for decades to come. When civil rights attorney Larry Krasner mounted a long-shot campaign to become District Attorney, he ran on a bold pledge: to end mass incarceration by changing the culture of the criminal justice system from within. He shocked the establishment by winning in a landslide.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the bureaucrats he spent his campaign denigrating are his co-workers; the police he alienated are his rank-and-file law enforcers. Pressure comes from all sides of a system resistant to reform. Krasner\u2019s unapologetic promise to use the power of the D.A.\u2019s office for sweeping change is what got him elected; now that he\u2019s in office, that same stubbornness threatens to alienate those he needs to work with the most.<\/p>\n<p>From the eye of this political storm, filmmakers Ted Passon, Yoni Brook, and Nicole Salazar gained unprecedented access into Krasner\u2019s office and behind the scenes of the criminal justice system. Over the course of eight episodes,\u00a0<em><strong>Philly D.A<\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0explores the most pressing social issues of our time\u2014police brutality, the opioid crisis, gun violence, and mass incarceration\u2014through the lens of an idealistic team attempting fundamental overhaul from within the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania had one of the highest incarceration rates of any major city in the United States. And it\u2019s become the epicenter of a historic experiment that could shape the future of prosecution in America for decades to come. 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