[Kid Shelleen]

Experts say this year's shootings don't follow a simple pattern

I bet some of my Freepers could find a pattern but then again they are not politically correct..

Officials say the homicide count, though, remains far from the record of 500 set in 1990 during the city's crack epidemic.

Trivia Question: Does anybody know who the mayor was in 1990?
(Hint: He was famous for burning down a whole city block..)

[CyberAnt]

Does anybody know how many Americans died this YEAR in Iraq?? Is it more than 382 ..??

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Police say 382 people have been slain this year.

Quagmire.

Bush's fault.

Redeploy the police out of there.

If you're too stupid to get an edumacation you get stuck in Phili... Heeyuck... Heeyuck...

Civil war within PA.

Yada... yada... yada...

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Quagmire! Needs to be addressed by the good ISG folks ...

[MEGoody]

The other day, I was wondering how many people are murdered total in all U.S. cities with a population over 100K. I would imagine the death toll would be staggering.

Isn't it strange how the left screams about the deaths of Iraqis, but they don't have much to say about the deaths in our own cities.

I guess that's because those murders are committed by their constituents - don't want to get them upset.

[goldstategop]

They shoot up in Philly and the idiot mayor John Street still wants to grab law-abiding gun owners weapons on the grounds there are too many guns on the streets. So it looks like they're not going after the criminals in the City Of Brotherly Love.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Trivia Question: Does anybody know who the mayor was in 1990?

Wasn't that Goode?

[TXBlair]

I think each and every single one of these homicides should be front and center on the nightly MSM broadcasts. And not just Philly; every murder throughout the nation should be given the attention that every death in Iraq gets. Maybe some folks will start to clue in that our troops are in no more danger IN A WAR ZONE than are average citizens right here in the good ol' U.S. of A. who are just trying to get to work (granted, that work might be the crackhouse, but still).

[Chewie84]

Man alive! How can people in one city do that to each other?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"I bet some of my Freepers could find a pattern but then again they are not politically correct"!

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In a word,


RAPCRAP!

[Obie Wan]

What percentage of these shootings involved African Americans? I know they're poor and they can't help themselves !!!

[OldFriend]

Sounds a lot like Newark, NJ

[Mo1]

Bring back the mob .. their organized crime was much better then this disorganize drug street crime

[Jimmy Valentine]

"who the mayor was in 1990?"

OH, YES!! The great Wilson Goode. He has the police drop a bomb on some crazy quasi religious sect that barricaded themselves in their house and were shooting at the police.

The bomb blew up the house and the two on either side and started a fire that took down about two city blocks of homes.

Say what you will, the MAN got the job DONE!!