San Francisco Chronicle: Judge signals OK for Oakland gang injunction
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/28/BA6K1DLLF4.DTL
Oakland gang injunction (Todd Trumbull / The Chronicle)
Posted on 06/19/2010 6:47:16 PM PDT by dragnet2
A suburban Philadelphia city has declared a state of emergency following the fourth killing in eight days, including the death of a 2-year-old boy a week ago.
Mayor Wendell Butler Jr. today proclaimed the state of emergency beginning tonight and running through Thursday morning, and he said he will ask the city council to extend it for a month.
During that time, no one is allowed on the street from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m. each day, and no assembly of three or more people is allowed without a permit.
Curfews?
Must have a permit to assemble?
Isn’t this the same area of Philadelphia that have curfews and declared state of emergency in 2009 for arson fires?
WHy does it have to be stopped? Do we really need Philadelphia?
Pittsburgh has had just as many if I recall....this past week was bad
You don’t see Chicago closing down over their daily killings. This seems like a bit of overkill....pardon the pun.
***..and no assembly of three or more people is allowed without a permit.***
Forty years ago it was said that if three chinese got together one of them would be an informant on the other two.
I guess that would depend on if you live in that area...
Can we get a Sp. Ops. team to at least get the bell back?
Is this Philadelphia Mexico S.A.?
The backlog at the morgue will be cleared and they can get back to doing what they do best.
Chester was given a brand new major league soccer stadium and casino.The sad part is that such reinvestment has little to do in stopping the cancer of Democrat controlled cities and towns.
I live in a Philly suburb and I vote no.
Run by a Democrat mayor, as are all of the most murderous cities in the U.S.
From another article....
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The starkly worded mayoral proclamation says “No person without a legitimate reason is allowed on any public street or in any other public place” between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The real question here is, when did it become an unacceptable number of deaths? 2, 4, 5, 7 or 8 before they decided to establish a “State of Emergency” and what allows this to deescalate. Or is this marshal law by proxy for identity politics.
Chester is in Pennsylvania’s first congressional district—one of the most solid Democrat seats in the country. Has a Cook partisan voting index of +35 Democrat.
Being on the west coast, I used to think of places like Philadelphia as tree lined streets, historic homes, lots of American history, Liberty Bell, and down home America...
That is what my mind thinks, but sadly I know that isn't the reality of today's America.
Some of my family came from that area about 150 years ago.
It's very troubling what we tolerate now.
Good questions....I would speculate that there might be covert or ulterior reasons for this....
your post is my favorite of the day!
INBN
“Being on the west coast, I used to think of places like Philadelphia as tree lined streets, historic homes, lots of American history, Liberty Bell, and down home America...”
And it is in some of the suburbs, though I have not been in the city for about 20 years. I moved from Delaware the same year the city voted to allow buildings taller than William Penn’s hat.
4 is all it takes? Now I know the master plan. 200 murders and the top 50 population centers in the country are put under martial law.
There is still a lot here that is worth seeing and doing. Unfortunately, like many old American cities, Philadelphia has its problems. I'd encourage you to visit Philadelphia and its sites, but get some advice beforehand as to places to avoid. There's no good reason for a visitor to go to Chester, for example. Valley Forge, on the other hand, is inspiring, and much of Old City is charming, as is Chestnut Hill. If we judged every urban center only by its worst areas, none of us would ever visit any of them. I've lived in this area since 1982, and while I've had my car vandalized a few times (mostly during political campaigns . . .), I've never been mugged, let alone murdered - you can probably figure out the latter.
I’m 54. My parents and their people were raised in Chester. This city sent a lot of people to win WWII, but the Dems and unions seized control of the area in the 60’s and it has been in decline ever since. Thank God my parents moved me to Florida in ‘68 and let me grow up here.
It is sad, but these areas that are so historic, and were so beautiful and enjoyable to visit, are now high crime areas. Everything has eroded in our society since the moral standard was lowered, and people were excused for doing things that they used to be punished for. The liberals and their whining about being "fair" and tolerant of ignorance has left things very UNFAIR for the law abiding, polite, dignified citizen who is not tattooed, wearing chains and earrings, has corn rows, and with pants hanging down around the knees.
When I was six, we lived on the top floor of La Spada’s on Edgemont Ave. in Parkside which is adjacent to Chester. My grandfather was a WWI & WWII veteran who worked at Sun Oil and for the Merchant Marine between those two wars and served as a Justice of the Peace during the 50’s and 60’s. It is sad to see how serously this area has degraded since dems and unions have seized control of the local governments.
If this was an Az town, the media would be in intensive care....
Why did you edit out the name of the town?
Philadelphia’s always been a dump, but I haven’t felt particularly scared there. Baltimore, however, scared the crap out of me. My daughter went to college there, and eventually I just told her I was NOT driving to that place again. I drove to Newark once, to see where my ancestors came from and... it was like a third world country. Buildings literally falling down, and people standing around with weapons in the streets.
No wonder I avoid cities like the plague.
You mean it’s not the Amish on a killing spree? That’s always my first guess, since the press never seems to mention details about perps.
This is Chester, Pa., where both of my parents and I were born and which they escaped some 39 years ago. It used to be a fine little city. Sad, but nothing new-just a ploy to get the Fed’s to take notice and send some cash.
Thomas Jefferson
Chester, Pennsylvania - setting for Tom Wolfe’s last novel “I Am Charlotte Simmons”, home of a new casino and a multi-multi million dollar sports stadium for the Philadelphia “Union”, Philly’s new soccer team - improved economic outlook apparently hasn’t done a thing for this perpetual dump.....
The town is clearly documented at the link. The article was a total of 11 lines, which I reduced to 6 lines, due to AP showing up inside the link.
Why would you be concerned with that?
I agree - best to see Phila by day and take care at night. Sadly, every time a law-abiding citizen decides that it’s too risky to go out at night, the streets become a bit more deserted and it becomes a bit easier for the bad guys to prey on others. I’m angry and sad at the erosion of our freedom during my lifetime. We need to take back America on many levels.
“and there’s not a dadgum thing that anyone could possibly do about it [other than maybe turning and fleeing for their lives, while they still could].”
Oh, there are things that could be done, but none that 21st century sensibilities will countenance.
This “suburb” is Chester. To call Chester a suburb would be like calling Camden N.J. a suburb.
Wendell Butler is a Republican and the man he succeeded was Dominic Pileggi who is now the GOP leader in the state senate and he’s actually pretty good.
Not sure what you mean...This area is within about 2 miles of Philadelphia international airport, so it clearly seems to be part of the Philadelphia area or suburb, so to speak.
Agree.
San Francisco Chronicle: Judge signals OK for Oakland gang injunction
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/28/BA6K1DLLF4.DTL
Oakland gang injunction (Todd Trumbull / The Chronicle)
Chester has always been viewed as its own self -- a large industrial town that has long, deep roots and happened to be downriver from Philadelphia. Over time, the two cities spread until the suburbs of both of them meshed, but Chester has always been regarded by the locals as very much its own entity.
There is a university there, Widener College, that had a previous long history as Pennsylvania Military College, which sent many troops to the world wars and to Viet Nam, including the cadet commander Jack Geoghagen, class of '63, whose service and unfortunate casualty in VN were depicted in the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers.
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