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Originally Posted by GunLawyer001
She can't publicly acknowledge that Philadelphia crime is caused by Philadelphia residents. If she blames the voters, she won't be reelected.
The reality is that if you magically vaporised every Philadelphia resident (after giving warning to the dozen or so good people like Dan P), then brought in a million random folks from Iowa and Kentucky and Arizona, the crime rate would not mysteriously match the pre-vaporisation rate.
Philadelphia crime is caused by Philadelphia residents, primarily those residents who are unsupervised, fatherless, from families without earned income, from a subculture that respects rap singers and prison inmates while promoting non-snitching. They are either criminals or enablers for criminals. The culture finds nothing wrong with lying to the government so that Welfare or WIC or disability benefits can be received. I've worked with some of these people, and even the working folk casually discuss lying about income to get benefits, lying about the identity of their baby's daddies to get assistance.
Philadelphia's criminal culture is too corrupt and too prevalent for the city to be salvaged, absent a disaster. They blame guns, they blame Harrisburg, they blame white folks in the suburbs for ignoring the city. They blame everyone except the people who commit the crimes, the men and women who carelessly spawned them, the single moms who hang out at bars instead of supervising their bastard offspring.
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Believe it or not, it's more like a 90/10 split with 10% being scuzzball criminals (or maybe as high as 20% but it's still far less than everyone).
That's still a lot of scuzzball criminals.
Oh, and I do blame the people who commit the crimes and those who raise (or really fail to raise) these monsters. I also do blame the burbs for attitudes such as yours (as in let philly stew in its own juices and then whine that it's a cesspool -- what do you expect?).
When roughly half the population is too poor to pay taxes and fully around 25% are below the poverty line, who pays for everything? Will you take in a population living below the poverty line (roughly 25% of the population) that numbers around 400,000? I didn't think so. What are your proposals for dealing with single moms, irresponsible fathers and their "bastard" children. Yes, the silence on that score remains deafening.
Push all the garbage under the rug in philly and then tell us what a problem we are. Thanks so much for your insight.
If H'burg has a solution to a problem that has been with us from the dawn of time (poverty and crime), please step in and implement it. If all folks want to do is point a finger and whine, well you're about as effective as Nutter.
The commonwealth as a whole has the same issues as philly, only on a lesser scale. Nobody wants to actually pay more for police, DA, prisons and recidivist programs but are only too eager to complain about crime. You can't have it both ways.