Parker emerged from a crowded subject of 5 front-runner Democratic candidates vying to interchange Democrat Jim Kenney, who’s term-limited. She beat out different former metropolis council members who resigned from their seats to throw their hats within the ring; a state consultant; a former metropolis controller and a political outsider businessman.
The Philadelphia race serves as the most recent barometer of how residents of among the nation’s largest cities hope to emerge from the pandemic, which heightened considerations about crime, poverty and inequality. The outcomes have generally been tumultuous in different components of the nation, resulting in the defeat of the incumbent mayor of Chicago in February and the ouster of San Francisco’s district legal professional final yr.
Parker pledged to “cease the sense of lawlessness that’s plaguing our metropolis” by placing lots of extra officers on the road to interact in group policing. Parker pushed for officers to make use of each authorized device, together with stopping somebody once they have “simply trigger and cheap suspicion.”
She acquired assist from members of the Philadelphia delegation within the Home, in addition to members of Congress. She was additionally backed by labor unions and numerous wards within the metropolis, and Kenney mentioned he had forged his poll for her.
