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Please keep in mind, as the governor calls for gun rationing instead of crime control, his budget proposal (which is about priorities) CUT millions of dollars in public safety funding -- including the Attorney General and Blueprint for Safer Philadelphia funds. There are a number of comments by Philadelphia Chief Inspector Joseph Fox, head of detectives. As part of the Committee of the Whole, various media reports were cited. Punishment enhancements or mandatory sentences for the small number of offenders who commit the disproportionate share of the crimes will, by definition, lower crime rates. Efforts by judges and others to...