Just twenty-one days into the year, it’s a little bit early to tell. Checking the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page has been all over the board. Some days, 2021 has been behind the running total of homicides from 2020’s disastrous year, and some days ahead.
Philadelphia finished Inauguration Day with 32 homicides, 3 ahead of the same date in 2020, for a rate of 1.60 per day. That’s slightly higher than how Philly finished up in December, 1.45 per day.
I wrote earlier that Philadelphia had 502 homicides for 2020, but the Police Department revised its figures, coming up with a total of 499 for the year. What, did three people recover from death or something?
Is the City of Brotherly Love getting ready to leave 2020’s 499, and 1990’s 500 killings in the dust? It’s a little bit early to make a statement like that, with just twenty days gone and 345 days remaining in the year. But one thing is certain: Mayor Jim Kenney, District Attorney Larry Krasner and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw have failed, failed, failed in their jobs.
Progress: only one homicide overnight in Philly!
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The reason the total murders went from 502 to 499 was the Philadelphians doing the county went to Philly public schools. They forgot to “carry the three”.
That would explain much!
I supposed that there could have been three murders, but the shootings happened after midnight, but it could also be true that there were three murders in which the killing action was taken before midnight, but the victims were not pronounced dead until after midnight. I’ve checked a lot of statistics, and it seems that the statistics change.