[Steely Tom]

IIRC, NYC had close to 2000 murders per year back in the ‘70’s, at least for a few years running.

[bert]

.....Politics hobbles the ability of the police to address crime.....

Which is why white teamster thugs can beat up and maim FReepers protesting the presence of a disgusting excuse for an American President.

Want some pictures of white criminals? Go get the criminal teamster thugs and their accomplices in the local government.

Americans should Avoid Tiajuna and Philadephia. Either place, you can get killed.

[gidget7]

Not unlike any major city today. The press and the politicians skew the crime statistic to cover it up, but the results are the same. Until these people stop making excuses for the crime statistics, and actually address it, leaving race out of it completely, nothing will change. If politicians gave as much attention to these types of criminals, as they do to legal activity they want to demonize, the country would be a whole lot nicer place.

[buck jarret]

I’ve been to Philadelphia a couple of times. I can’t really differentiate it from New Jersey.

Isn’t it true that its poorest suburbs like Camden and Chester have even more extreme poverty & crime than Philly has?

[BenLurkin]

“one of the most backward and incompetent city governments in America.”

Ray “schoolbus” Nagin and New Orleans must be in first place.

[dennisw]

Killadelphia is its nickname

[Clemenza]

I tell people if they want the “thrill” of experiencing was New York was like during the Lindsey/Beame era, all they have to do is move 90 miles south to Philadelphia.

[T.L.Sink]

NYC was thought to be hopelessly ungovernable and crime-ridden UNTIL Rudy cleaned things up by proving that an aggressive and “zero tolerance” law enforcement policy could move the city into the lowest per capita crime rate of any major city.