The Killing Streets of Philadelphia and Chicago

Editor's note: Think about this for a moment: In two years over 1,000 people will have been shot dead on the bloody streets of Philadelphia. Those are war statistics. But not only that, there were an additional 1,770 nonfatal shootings in Philadelphia. This is nothing though compared to Chicago where the war zone there has killed 663 people to-date. Toss together the totals between Philadelphia and Chicago and 5,857 people have been shot over the past year with a total of 1,163 dead. In Chicago, a person is shot on average once every 2 minutes and 26 seconds. The black residence in these cities are literally depopulating themselves. This is an example of just two cities in the collapsing empire. What about Los Angeles, Memphis, Indianapolis, Detroit and Milwaukee (bumper crop year in 2021). There are thousands of people being shot and killed on the streets of America every year. 

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Source: The Trace

Philadelphia Surpasses 500 Homicides for the Second Year in a Row

The city's gun violence crisis claimed more than 90 percent of deaths.

By Mensah M. Dean | December 21, 2022

Outside Philadelphia City Hall on December 20, 2022 — just as the city reached 500 homicides for the year — community activists protest officials' response to gun violence. Mensah M. Dean for The Trace

Less than a week before Christmas, Philadelphia recorded its 500th homicide of 2022, marking the second year in a row that the city has reached this deadly milestone.

While this year's murder toll will likely not surpass 2021's record 562 killings, no one is celebrating the modest decline; 2022 is on pace to mark the second deadliest year in the city's history.

The gun violence crisis also included more than 1,770 nonfatal shootings citywide this year. In response to the bloodshed, on December 20, Mayor Jim Kenney and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw held a news conference in City Hall to announce that 100 police officers will be deployed to the four highest-crime police districts in the new year. Those districts, in Kensington, North Philadelphia, and Germantown, account for 43 percent of gun violence citywide, they said.

"As we enter this holiday season I can't help but think of all the incredible potential that has been extinguished by this loss of life," Kenney said. "It is unconscionable that so many lives are lost to the scourge of violence, nearly 90 percent of which are at the hands of someone with a gun."

At a news conference on December 20, 2022, Philadelphia officials announced that 100 police officers will be redeployed to high-crime areas to combat gun violence in the city. Mensah M. Dean for The Trace

More than 90 percent of this year's fatal shooting victims were male, 79 percent were Black, and 48 percent were between the ages of 18 and 30, according to the Office of the City Controller. Six percent were younger than 18.

Those killed include Ikeem Johnson, 35, a sanitation employee for the city Streets Department who was fatally shot on the morning of November 18 while on his trash collection route; Tiffany Fletcher, 41, a city Parks and Recreation employee who was caught in the crossfire as teenagers exchanged shots at the West Philadelphia center where she worked on September 9; and Wendy Feldman, 59, who was killed on December 7 by her estranged husband — who then fatally shot himself — behind the hair salon she owned in Chestnut Hill.

Two police districts in North Philadelphia, one in Kensington and North Philly, and one in Germantown will receive the additional officers. Kenney called it the department's largest redeployment in recent years and a "bold new step to help those who need it the most."

Please go to The Trace to read more about the continuing war in Philadelphia.

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