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A Philly committee spent 18 months examining the city’s gun violence crisis. Here’s what they found.
The Philadelphia Inquirer via MSN ^ | 01/27/2022 | Chris Palmer

Posted on 01/27/2022 3:00:24 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

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The Police Department, for example, noted that the District Attorney’s Office has increasingly failed to win convictions for illegal gun possession, a crime police say must be addressed to curb gunfire in the city.

But prosecutors said there was “little research supporting the approach.” And they noted that one category of gun possession — carrying without a license — was a felony in Philadelphia but a misdemeanor in the rest of the state. They called that legislative decision “inequitable and obviously racist,” and said they believe the Police Department’s focus on arresting people for that crime “is having no effect on the gun violence crisis.”

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Friggin unbelievable. The report is actually a case study in how dysfunctional the progressives are in enforcing crime.
A perfect example is the refusal by the Soros DA to enforce certain gun laws because they are “inequitable and obviously racist”. RedTards love gun laws but hate to enforce them.
1 posted on 01/27/2022 3:00:24 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
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And they noted that one category of gun possession — carrying without a license — was a felony in Philadelphia but a misdemeanor in the rest of the state.

Is gun violence a problem in other parts of the state? No?

2 posted on 01/27/2022 3:03:17 PM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Kid Shelleen

Soros is giving money for commie “news” team ups and more and more appear here.


3 posted on 01/27/2022 3:03:22 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Kid Shelleen

Only those opposed to the right of self defense would make carrying a gun without a permit a crime.


4 posted on 01/27/2022 3:04:54 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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Actually, given the battleground neighborhoods, if you live there, you better be packin’ !


5 posted on 01/27/2022 3:08:39 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable.STILL )
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To: Kid Shelleen
A Philly committee spent 18 months examining the city’s gun violence crisis. Here’s what they found.

I'm guessing something like "it's everyone else's fault."

6 posted on 01/27/2022 3:09:46 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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“RedTards love gun laws but hate to enforce them.”

Enforcement is for the conservatives under their thumb.


7 posted on 01/27/2022 3:13:19 PM PST by George from New England
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Sorry but i would never convict someone just for gun possession. It is a right even for a criminal. Now armed robbery etc. different story.


8 posted on 01/27/2022 3:14:44 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Kid Shelleen

I see Chicago still holds the record of 800 homicides in 2021. I recall Miami being a fairly dangerous city some time ago, but in 2021 it had only 245 homicides.


9 posted on 01/27/2022 3:15:03 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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It appears they conducted a landmark study that concluded the police blame the DA, and the DA blames the police. I suppose the real finding is that it’s this dysfunction actually causing the issue.


10 posted on 01/27/2022 3:15:27 PM PST by NittanyLion
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To: Steely Tom

John Moses Browning’s fault.


11 posted on 01/27/2022 3:16:26 PM PST by Paladin2
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Actually, given the battleground neighborhoods, if you live there, you better be packin’!

That's precisely why there's a lot of hesitancy in Philly and other similar cities to prosecute this type of crime. A lot of people who might otherwise be denied CCWs still carry, not because they want to go rob a liquor store, but because they live in a neighborhood where it's there's a good chance they'll need to defend themselves at some point.

12 posted on 01/27/2022 3:16:28 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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Any ‘committee’ composed largely of liberal blacks will never see the elephant in the room... which is them.


13 posted on 01/27/2022 3:19:11 PM PST by SpaceBar
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‘A perfect example is the refusal by the Soros DA to enforce certain gun laws because they are “inequitable and obviously racist”.’

Umm, I don’t really care why they are not enforcing the laws. The laws are bad; if they are not enforcing them for stupid reasons, then so be it. Maybe we can convince the left to stop enforcing more bad laws for other stupid reasons.


14 posted on 01/27/2022 3:19:47 PM PST by Boogieman
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“Only those opposed to the right of self defense would make carrying a gun without a permit a crime.”

Only a complete and utter retarded moron thinks that a criminal will not carry a gun because they don’t have a permit.


15 posted on 01/27/2022 3:20:10 PM PST by suthener ( )
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To: Kid Shelleen

Working hard to persecute Christianity, while the lack of Christian morality is the fundamental problem of our large, Rat-run, Rat-infested cities. Rat politicians would never admit that, but we had better hope that the people inhabiting those cities come to that realization.


16 posted on 01/27/2022 3:21:03 PM PST by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

This is psychotic. When the perps are mostly black, the focus is always on the guns, not the criminals.


17 posted on 01/27/2022 3:28:47 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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Gun charges are the DA’s bargaining chip. “Plead guilty to the charge we want and we’ll drop the gun charge.”


18 posted on 01/27/2022 3:36:13 PM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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I’d be willing to bet more people are killed backing up to the edge of a cliff while taking a “selfie” with their cellphone than are killed by unaccompanied guns wandering our streets gunning people down. We need to ban cliffs and cellphones.


19 posted on 01/27/2022 4:07:11 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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Isn’t philly the town that refused to let Asian vendors put glass between them and criminals,I mean customers????


20 posted on 01/27/2022 4:24:21 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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