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Keystone Cops: 58 Is No-So-Great
Keystone Cops is a daily look at crime, police, public safety and drug news. Homicide totals are unofficial. • Philadelphia had its 58th homicide last night, easily outpacing last year’s total of 49 at this point. There was a little lull in mid-January, but now the city is just rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, possibly to 500 homicides! We’ll be at Revolution War-level mortality rate in this city before long! Sigh. [Inquirer] • Additionally, weekend gun violence killed four other people and wounded six. One of the incidents with wounded men was in front of the CVS at 19th and Chestnut, after a dispute at Tragos. Naturally, the people involved in that one were from Jersey. Hey, go to your TGI Friday’s in your own state, jerks! [Inquirer] • A woman in Buxco is pushing for methadone clinics to be open on Sundays so patients can’t take or sell their Sunday take-home dose. [The Intelligencer] • The Tropicana in A.C. is going smoke-free with non-gambling smoking lounges. [Camden Courier-Post] • And this Daily News letter writer wants you to know that even though these people died in a fire, they broke the law with their illegal electricity hookup and so they deserved it, or something. [DN] |
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I commented about a month ago about how PHL was falling behind last year’s pace…that didn’t last too long.
We need another cold snap to keep everybody inside.