Downtown Shooting Rounds Out Violent Weekend (Quagmire in Philly)

CBS 3 PHILADELPHIA ^ | 11/13/2006 | AP

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Isn't Philly just a big ass suburb of New York anyway?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[Thumper1960]

Nah....that was accurate.

I've been to Philthydelphia many, many, many times. In most sections, day and night.

It's a cesspool of crime, graft, drugs, gangs and decay.

Philly once was a decent place to visit.

Just visit.

Show me one world class city where your lumbering pedestrian stops and urinates on a building wall, in full view of children.

Third World....yeah, it fits.

[samm1148]

Mature when your narrow-minded world view is challenged aren't you? I've been there too many times so spare me your smartass BS. By the way you never said you'd take me up on my challenge. You're dismissed.

[PhillyRepublican]

Street is a total moron (amoung other things). His "safe streets" program actually warns perps where the police will be patroling.
Judges in Philly are left wing nincompoops too for the most part. Keep dreaming up new reasons for letting criminals go like their "coersive abandonment" idea they dreamed up a few years ago. That brainstorm throws out cases where perps discard their drugs or guns at the sight of oncoming police or while actually fleeing the police. Loopy reasoning being that the perp "only" threw away the incriminating evidence because the sight of the police "coerced" them into doing so.
We need Frank Rizzo or Smedley Butler to return from the beyond and clean up Philly. (Smedley Butler is a Marine Corps legend, one of two Marines to win the Medal of Honor twice. Was head of the police dept. around the turn of the century [last century] when Philly had the highest crime rate in the nation. He made a rule that any officer who killed a perp in the act of committing a crime would get an automatic promotion. Six months and a few less criminals later, Philly had the "lowest" crime rate in the Country).

[samm1148]

Reminds me: I was there a few years ago. The area by Rittenhouse Square. That is supposed to me more upscale. The area was crawling with derelicts. One was staring into a restaurant where a family was eating. He was leaning against the window doing an obscene act: Nothing was done.

[oceanview]

compared to NYC, philly is bad. sure, the tourist areas by the liberty bell and independence hall are OK because they are crawling with security, as are the areas by the museums and franklin institute. but even rittenhouse square is bad - crack users all over the park. and you never see a cop there anywhere, in comparison to manhattan.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Isn't the solution obvious?

The Dems need to cut off funding to the Philly Police Department until the violence stops.

[republicanwizard]

Yes, well at least my bs is "smartass." Unlike yours which is "dumbass."

I can take you up on your challenge anyday. I know the population of my city.

Thanks,
RW

[Fireone]

I thought the violence ended with the
"midnight basketball" program!

[PhillyMom]

Have you seen the cover of November's Philadelphia Magazine? If not, go to www.philadelphiamagazine.com and take a look. Title of the article "Murder", follows police through the worst part of the city; this magazine was actually pulled from the city hotels...some portions of the article struck me - a 10 year old out on the streets at 3 a.m.!!!, the "stop snitchin" mantra, and the absolute hatred for the police, no matter what color. Bill Cosby was absolutely correct, and he was villified for it by Philly residents - "don't air dirty laundry in public". Well, it does make one want to shrug. After reading the article, I pretty much did just that.

There are a great many police officers that I know, especially the older ones, who can't wait to retire, or "re-deploy".

[republicanwizard]

I know, but the point is that it isn't third-world. I'm just hoping voters here are not as stupid as to elect another Goode-Rendell-Street moron.

[OldFriend]

Philly is a suburb of NJ

[xarmydog]

You should check out Portsmouth Virginia.I have a close relative there.Go to Virginia courts case information and check out the offenders.It amazed me at the crimes they do,and the time they do not do.My close relative is a female with three children,and her last boyfriend had a rap sheet three pages long.He was on parole for armed robbery,gets caught with 88 bags of heroin,and is out in less than three months.That convinces me the system is in a bad need of fixing.The others are just as bad if not worse.It takes a lot to shock me,but I was.I would bet it is prevalent all over the country.Our young people need to get it together,as they are the people who will be in charge soon.Some already are.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Funny you should mention Portsmouth; that's where WashComPost journalist Nathan McCall is from. I had just finished reading his autobiography a few days ago and he described the city vividly.

[PhillyMom]

Well, if Chaka Fattah (God help us) is given some big job in Congress, perhaps he'll choose to stay there. We had a chance with Sam Katz, until Street turned the bug issue into racial politics. You can see how the Democratic monopoly on Philadelphia has ruined the City. I'm still curious as to whether Street ever paid his way overdue gas bills. It's the unions and the democrats running this city - right into the ground.

[republicanwizard]

Actually, I'd prefer Fattah to Bob Brady. And Nutter? Don't get me started.

I'm going to back Rizzo.

[xarmydog]

I don't think positive!I have done a little research,and I would never on my worst day,go there without packing.I want to help my friend,but she does not want help.Close family member.Just have to wait and see.