More murders than NYC, with half the population. Well done Philly and your worthless piece of shit Democrat mayor and city council. Welcome to Philly. I sure do miss the 30 Blocks of Squalor.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Not only is there a sharp rise in homicides among major cities across the United States, but an Action News analysis of the data shows that Philadelphia has the second-highest murder rate among the 10 largest cities this year.
“I think it’s like the perfect storm right now,” said John Apeldorn of the Citizens Crime Commission.
Criminal justice academics who study crime say cities have been destabilized by pandemic lockdowns. Experts also say protests against police are contributing to a sharp rise in violent crimes.
In Philadelphia, at least 255 people are victims of homicide so far this year, including a 32-year-old woman who was caught in the crossfire of a violent episode that broke out Friday night in the 2500 Block of Ingersoll Street.
Seven heavily armed men got out of two vehicles and began wildly firing in different directions at another group.
“The brazen nature of this, you can’t watch that video and not be taken aback,” said Staff Inspector Sekou Kinebrew with the Philadelphia Police Department.
In another incident over the weekend, 7-year-old Zamar Jones was caught in the crossfire while playing on his porch on the 200 block of North Simpson Street. He later died from his injuries.
READ MORE: 7-year-old boy dies after being shot in head while playing on Philadelphia porch
BOY KILLED: A 7-year-old boy has died after he was shot in the head over the weekend while playing on a Philadelphia porch.
In addition to Philadelphia, the data shows that Chicago has the highest homicide rate this year.
And for the fourth year in a row, Philadelphia is seeing more homicides than New York City, a city where the population is more than five times bigger.
Apeldorn says in addition to the heroin and opioid epidemic and warring gangs involved in the drug trade, criminals have been emboldened by the sidelining of police.
“You have police officers because of the defunding and things like that, morale is low, they’re lining up to retire. The criminal element knows this, they’re out there committing their crime and crime is going up,” said Apeldorn.
“I think we’re experiencing a trickle-down effect from the start of the pandemic with just crime going up to the riots and things happening in Philadelphia,” said Pastor Eric Simmons of the Grace Center Church.
Pastor Simmons is one of a number of pastors deeply concerned with what’s going on in the city.
“A lot of us collectively have come together, I think people are just fed up,” he said.
The question is how to even begin to address the problem? Pastor Simmons says we must begin by putting our youth on the right path.
“It’s going to take some work, but I think mentorship is the key to getting this thing tailored in Philadelphia,” said Simmons.
Second highest??? Come on Philly. You Bro’s can do better. Put a foam number one on one hand and a Glock in the other.
You can take the boyz out of the jungle, but you cannot take the jungle out of the boyz.
August, 2008: one of Barack Obama’s most attended events was held in Philly.
As I recall, there were precincts in Philly that had 100% turnout and 100% voted for the magic kneegrow in ’08.
105%
Two things all the cities with out of control crime and murder rates have in common
Majority governed by liberal democrats and a large black population .
Just can’t figure out why everything is going to shit in these cities ?
Let’s get some federal grants and appoint a commission and go to a summit meeting and workshop for 2 weeks in Las Vegas .
When we return we can do a midnight basketball league catered by Chick-Filet since their CEO has joined the BLM boot licker society !
“THEY SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS”.
Thanks for the clarification.
There was one special note they forgot. They were all niggers.
They wuz kangs.
I don’t know about the Kangs,but the women are mostly Queen sized.
I thought they were just fat, dumb & lazy.
Elephantine even.
I live in Delaware and go into Philly on a semi regular basis. The first thing that strikes you is that it looks like Zimbabwe or the Congo would look. Negros in every direction.
Last year I was in the Society Hill historic district late at night and could hardly believe my eyes. Feral
negros in every direction doing what feral negros do. I could not wait to get out of there. That City is a goner. Burn it down and start over.
“I live in Delaware and go into Philly on a semi regular basis”-tell us more about your hidden death wish.
We can’t go back in time to when America was a White country. We need warp drive,and we need it now.
If you just got rid of the racist police none of this would happen.
And cops who shoot people while they are unarmed begging for their life.
Now that the Rizzo statue is gone, the young black men will stop shooting each other.
There should be a Philly statue celebrating the inventor of plexiglass.
And just where is the Black Lives Matter outrage on this murderous violence against Black children?
https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles/news/philly-police-arrest-1-man-seek-2-more-in-shooting-of-boy
Yeah, I thought so: dead silence.
BLM: a criminal terrorist front group for Communist-NWO overlords.
It is a fund raising arm of the DNC with part-time duties as enforcers for them. They are now getting protection money from small businesses. Sal and Guido will not like them muscling in on the protection racket.
Antifa is the military arm of BLM which is a Political leg of the Progressive Democratic Corpse.
I thought NFAC was the military arm of black lies matter. Like all the other brothers, they go around shooting each other.
NFAC is an artery of ANTIFA’s arm.
Negro dysfunction isn’t surprising.By now it’s just tiring.
Auntie’s clinical diagnosis, Jack: Negro Fatigue.
Boston and Philly love them some “junkie cages” and meth head cages.
https://turtleboysports.com/city-of-boston-organizes-junkie-jamboree-lets-addicts-do-drugs-in-caged-areas-to-prevent-spread-of-commie-cold/
Philly wants public dope shoot-up stations; https://tinyurl.com/y5jeh5f5
If they don’t steal or harm others to get their fix, have at it. Very Libertarian it is.
“One mustn’t say what everyone knows, that blacks are the least educable, least productive, most criminal, most violent, most dependent, and least assimilable of the population.“
– Fred Reed –
Unbelievable! TNB! We better step up and deal with this instead of cowering and being afraid of being called racist.