Downtown Shooting Rounds Out Violent Weekend (Quagmire in Philly)

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

[LenS]

Of course, they are. As the city continues to shrink, the pool of sane voters dwindles. Worse, the percentage of people who work for the city or get city contracts or handouts increases as the overall population drops, even without new hires. There's no incentive for change since most of those city workers live out on the safer edges of the city -- i.e. Somerton.

The real problem with the crime wave started a few years ago when a witness was killed and the killer was acquitted. I don't know how often after that I'd listen to the early Monday morning local TV news and find out that the victims in the Friday and Saturday night shootings had been witnesses in some trial. Only a fool would cooperate with the police or prosecutors -- it'll just get you hurt or killed.

These days, I won't even drive on I-95 through the city. It's better to loop around it.

[Thumper1960]

When a city does nothing to prevent sex acts on a city thoroughfare, in broad daylight, as people drive by and can see them clearly....there's a serious problem in that city.

Philthydelphia has major issues. It has for years and will continue to have them so long as the city is run as a Third World dysfunctional fiefdom. For residents to elect a clown like Street and expect sane people to "respect" them, is laughable...and pathetic.

[samm1148]

Yes look at its neighbor Camden in Jersey. But that will happen as long as crime is blamed on: Guns, poverty, race, etc. Anything but personal behavior. Criminals are going to be in for a rude awakening when punishment as a means of dealing with a choice of antisocial behavior is re-instituted.