Police tape blocks a street where a person was recently shot in a drug related event in
Kensington in Philadelphia, Pa., on July 19, 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Races for local chief prosecutors’ offices were once about who appeared to be toughest on crime.
Often called district attorneys or state attorneys, local chief prosecutors are publicly elected at county and sometimes city levels to steer criminal prosecutions on behalf of the people of a particular state.
Cara Ding
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Cara is an Orange County, New York-based Epoch Times reporter. She can be reached at [email protected]
