Kada Scott’s Death & DA Larry Krasner’s Pattern of Protecting Violent Offenders

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

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Summary

When 23-year-old Kada Scott vanished after her nursing-home shift, she did everything right. She reported harassment. She said she felt unsafe. Two weeks later, she was found in a shallow grave behind an abandoned Philadelphia school.

The man charged with her kidnapping — Keon King — was no stranger to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Earlier this year, King had been arrested for stalking and strangling another woman. There was video evidence. There was opportunity. And yet, District Attorney Larry Krasner’s team dropped the case.

Months later, Kada Scott was gone.

Krasner admits, “We could have done better.”
But that’s not accountability — that’s an obituary for justice.

Under Larry Krasner’s leadership, Philadelphia’s conviction rate for violent crimes has plummeted to roughly 33 percent, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Officers call it a “revolving door.” Federal prosecutors have accused his office of leniency that costs lives. And the pattern keeps repeating:

In 2019, Officer James O’Connor IV was shot and killed by a suspect whose earlier charges Krasner’s office had dropped.
In 2020, U.S. Attorney William McSwain cited ten other cases where defendants given light treatment by Krasner went on to commit new violent crimes.
Gun-crime prosecutions have collapsed even as shootings soar.

Krasner’s defenders call it “reform.” But when entire neighborhoods live in fear, when families like the Scotts bury loved ones, that’s not reform — that’s failure disguised as progress.

This isn’t about politics. It’s about competence, duty, and the lives lost because one office keeps choosing ideology over accountability.

In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski breaks down the numbers, the names, and the moral cost of a DA who promised fairness but delivered chaos.

Because when justice becomes an experiment, real people become the test subjects — and Philadelphia keeps paying the price.

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0:45.6	Hey there, True Crime Podcasts. It's Patrick and Jillian from True Crime Obsessed.
0:50.0	Each week on TCO, we recap a true crime documentary everyone's talking about, and we do it with hearts, sass, and just the right amount of humor. So if you like the kind of podcast where two good friends chat about a case in a thoughtful way that centers the victims, you really got to check us out. Yeah, we cover the well-known cases that you hear about in the news and the underreported cases that desperately need more attention. For almost nine years, we've been one of the most popular true crime podcasts out there.
1:13.7	We have over 30,000 five-star reviews on Apple Podcasts, and our brand-new YouTube channel has
1:18.3	over 50,000 subscribers watching our full length of video episodes, too.
1:22.5	So find and subscribe, True Crime Obsessed, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:28.5	His Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski.
1:31.2	Here now, Tony Bruske.
1:35.1	There are two kinds of failures in public office.
1:38.0	The first is human, the occasional mistake that comes with doing a hard job.
1:43.4	The second is ideological. When you believe in a theory
1:46.9	so strongly that you keep applying it long after it's proven not to work. Let me introduce you
1:54.7	to someone who's doing just that. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. He's crossed that line more than once.
2:03.0	He isn't just a man who made a few bad calls.
2:05.9	He's built an entire prosecutorial culture that protects violent offenders more than it protects
2:12.7	their victims.
2:13.9	And the results are written in blood.
2:17.2	Let's start with the most recent case, the one that we've been talking about,
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