Philadelphia Will Do  
 

Dec

19

America’s Next Great City, indeed

121905sylvester.jpg At this point in the year — with less than two weeks to go until 2006! — there have been 371 murders in the city, the most since 1997. (The most murders were in 1990, when there were 525.)

Anyway, the Philadelphia police commissioner, Sylvester Johnson, has some words about the rising murder rate:

“But I think there are a lot of social issues as well. If you go from January of 2000, we have over 1,800 killings. But they seem to forget there are 2,100 drug overdoses, another 1,400 suicides. There are so many social issues involved in this.”

But, you know, condos and shit.

Philadelphia’s Top Cop Cites Many Causes for Rising Murder Rate [KYW 1060]
 
dmac | 3:40 PM | 0 Comments
Crime, Police, Sylvester Johnson
 

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