We have previously noted how Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned up New York City in the 1990s, with policies continued by his successor, Michael Bloomberg, and how my younger daughter, whom I have joked is the whitest white girl in town, and I were able to walk, in complete safety, from the lower borders of Harlem back toward downtown. Messrs Giuliani and Bloomberg focused on ‘quality of life’ crimes and ‘broken windows’ policing, trying to intercept the petty criminals before they became major thugs.

Philadelphia isn’t like that. Under Mayor Jim Kenney and District Attorney Larry Krasner, the ‘lesser’ offenses have been ignored, which have done nothing but embolden the ‘entry-level’ criminals, who see themselves as getting away with doing whatever they want, until they become really bad guys, and start killing people. Now it seems as though a lot of people in the City of Brotherly Love would like to see the Giuliani program! Continue reading →