[T.L.Sink]

The article continues, "Politics hobbles the ability of the police to address crime. One illustrative episode involves the shooting of a 16-year-old outside his high school. The head of the school district went to the mayor pleading for more police patrols during the immediate after-school hours which are the most dangerous time of day for students. But the proposal was scotched by Sandra Dungee Glenn, an African-American school board member and former chief of staff to Rep. Chaka Fattah. Glenn argued that deploying extra police would send the "wrong message" to students and make them feel "that we need to be armed against them." Mayor Street chimed in that he wouldn't trust "a cop with a Glock" in the schools. So black leaders, along with Philadelphia's black mayor, and its black police chief, directed its heavily black police force to leave black students vulnerable to black criminals. Sandra Dungee Glenn subsequently was named chair of the School Reform Commission. That's Philly. In 2002 the Daily News ran a front page carrying the mug shots of 14 fugitive murderers wanted in Philadelphia and ran pictures of 27 more inside. Two of the fugitives were soon apprehended. But the Daily News quickly found itself the subject of boycotts and protests because all of the fugitives whose pictures were published were black or Hispanic. But the Daily News did NOT racially filter the photos: There simply were no white murder fugitives wanted in Philadelphia at that time. In the end, the newspaper knuckled under and apologized for publishing the truth. Since then, the city's newspapers, district attorneys, the mayors, and most of official Philadelphia have found it much safer to blame the bloodshed on distant bogeymen in Congress and rednecks at the NRA. Philadelphia has a bull market in murder, and it's far from clear that political reform can change the culture of a city that has simply come to accept Third World levels of disorder and corruption."

[Steely Tom]

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

[puroresu]

Yeah, but look at the bright side. The Philly government is wasting no time running those homophobic Boy Scouts out of the city.

[Lancey Howard]

Personally, I would stay far away from that place.

[ishabibble]

This is what happened to the historic aspect of Philadelphia when they moved the Liberty Bell as part of a multimillion tax dollar nod racial inclusion and “diversity”. READ THE LAST SENTENCE.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20031010/ai_n11429056

[A_perfect_lady]

Reap: Sow.

[razorback-bert]

It will all end when BO gets in office, change you know.

[econjack]

But the Daily News quickly found itself the subject of boycotts and protests because all of the fugitives whose pictures were published were black or Hispanic. But the Daily News did NOT racially filter the photos: There simply were no white murder fugitives wanted in Philadelphia at that time. In the end, the newspaper knuckled under and apologized for publishing the truth.

And the MSM wonders why people are no longer subscribing to their papers. This politically correct BS has got to stop.

I have well-educated, yet stupid, colleagues who are so quick to point out that blacks account for only 13% of the population yet are 40% of the prison population. They try to use that statistic as evidence of racism. I've tried to point out that the statistics could simply reflect the fact that either 1) blacks engage in illegal activity at a rate that is three times more than non-blacks, or 2) they commit crimes in such a way that makes them easier to catch. My alternative hypotheses are equally as likely as theirs, but they want no part of it because it doesn't square with their predisposed belief system. My conclusion: Liberals hate facts.

[2harddrive]

Why do you think they call this corrupt dump “Filthadelphia”?

[School of Rational Thought]

I work in the city of “Brotherly Love” but apparently the brothers didn’t buy in to that sound bite.

The newly elected mayor, Nutter, announced that the brothers were in charge, if that gives you the flavor of the emphasis on racial identity. His new Cheif of Police is Ramsey, who you will recall from failed appointments in Chicago and Washington DC.

Most of the murders are in identifiable bounded areas, although people are free to move about.

One stays out of those neighborhoods and carries when one has to go in them.

Currently under consideration are the use of “checkpoints” like they use in Bagdad and Washington DC.

Ramsey is also promoting “stop and frisk”.

They haven’t gone so far as to have Hugo Boss design new uniforms.

[econjack]

I did a little quick research on Mr. Street. It turns out he has quite a collection of corruption charges levied against him, not the least of which is his financial connections with his older brother, Milton Street:

One company paid Milton Street, who is a hot dog vendor, $30,000 a month consulting fee. Mayor Street continues to defend his brother's right to pursue city contracts...

The real question is: How does someone like this continue to get reelected? Oh...wait...it's probably the same way that Nagin continues to get reelected in New Orleans. Still, it continues to amaze me. The corrupt politicians continue to get richer, but the people they promised to help continue to get poorer. You'd think they'd learn after a while. But, that assumes they are informed about what's going on in their city...probably not the case.

[DogBarkTree]

Chocolate Cityitis.

[Ann Archy]

Sadly, you can’t name one big city run by a liberal African American that ISN’T CORRUPT and CRIME RIDDEN. It is so damn sad.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The Third World is apparently coming to all of America January 20, 2009.

[pabianice]

The Big Blue Cities need to be allowed to collapse.

[Fresh Wind]

What was it that Mayor Street said about who was running the city?

[sasafras]

The same could be said about almost EVERY liberal city...full of filth, crime, poverty, sloths who blame everyone and everybody else but themselves.

[seoul62]

Did the late Mayor Frank Rizzo have everything under control?/Just Asking - seoul62.......

[Clemenza]

Philadelphia: The City of Brothers Killing Eachother.

Philly defenders will not change my opinion: anything outside Center City, Chestnut Hill, and the 20-something hotel that is Manayunk might as well be Detroit.

Even the white areas in the northeastern part of the city are filled with meth heads and welfare dependents. THAT is something you never see in New York in the 21st century.

Philly, like Detroit, is one of the few cities that can benefit from a large influx of immigrants. Even the Vietnamese who go to South Philly usually move out as soon as they scrap some dough together.

[VOA]

“The Sad Philadelphia Story”

The other day I heard of a youth church group going on a mission trip
to one of our sunbelt states.
They were flying out of their home city, Philadelphia.

My first thought is “If there’s a tough urban scene that should be
a ‘mission field’...Philly would be somewhere near the top of the list!”

[C19fan]

Let me see Obama talked about cities like this being engines of regional economic growth. What a jokster. A lot of cities as this article shows can’t even do the most basic functions of government right.