Philadelphia’s homicide rate has skyrocketed since Mayor Jim Kenney took office, and only gotten worse since George Soros-sponsored police hater Larry Krasner became District Attorney. The appointment of left coaster Danielle Outlaw –she was formerly Chief of Police in Portland, Oregon, and a deputy chief in Oakland, California — didn’t improve things.

From October 12, 2020 through October 12, 2021, 551 bodies have littered the streets of America’s sixth largest city. With a population of 1,603,797, that works out to a homicide rate of 34.36 per 100,000 population. As we noted just a few days ago, the city is on track for 554 homicides this year, so the rate has remained constant, despite a slowdown in killings from mid-July through August.

But the city’s homicide rate for all of 2020 wasn’t that high: it was ‘just’ 31.11 for the entire year, even though that year saw 499 homicides, just one short of 1990’s all-time record. No, the killing rate got far, far worse after the death of George Floyd while resisting arrest in Minneapolis, and the summer long protests, demonstrations and #BlackLivesMatter riots against the police.

Philly surpasses 400 homicides this year

“I am heartbroken and outraged that we’ve lost over 400 Philadelphians to preventable violence already this year,” Mayor Jim Kenney said Sunday.

by Marie McCullough and Chris Palmer | Sunday, September 26, 2021

Two fatal shootings Saturday night brought Philadelphia’s total number of homicides this year to beyond 400, a tragic milestone reached only twice in the past two decades.

Last year the city recorded 499 homicides, and in 2006 the total reached 406. Philadelphia has not had back-to-back years with that grisly tally since 1996.

“I am heartbroken and outraged that we’ve lost over 400 Philadelphians to preventable violence already this year,” Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement issued Sunday morning. “I want all residents to know that our administration takes this crisis very seriously and we’re acting with urgency to reduce violence and save lives.”

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner echoed that sentiment in a statement Sunday: “We should all be outraged that senseless, preventable violence continues to claim and break lives here in Philadelphia and in communities across the country that are also experiencing alarming increases in gun violence.”

Sorry, but when I see softer-than-soft-on-crime District Attorney Krasner, who is more interested in keeping criminals out of prison and putting down the police, complaining about the homicide rate, indeed saying anything at all, I know it’s bovine feces. Mary McCarthy once said, concerning Lillian Hellman, “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.” The same is true of Mr Krasner; if he told me that 2+2=4, I’d have to check his math.

New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, channeling his inner Frank Reagan, blasted the liberal policies which have allowed criminals arrested right back out onto the streets.

It’s “insanity” that a Queens man has been arrested 46 times so far this year — only to be repeatedly released to steal again, said the NYPD’s top cop in response to an article in The Post.

Isaac Rodriguez, 22, has been collared by cops 74 times since 2015, and 46 times this year alone, The Post exclusively reported Saturday.

Rodriguez allegedly ripped off the same Queens Walgreens more than three dozen times in 2021, and has also been charged with gang assault in connection with a vicious stabbing, but was sent back to the streets under the state’s bail reform measure.

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, who has blamed the policy for an increase in shootings in the boroughs, took to Twitter Saturday to weigh in on The Post’s expose.

“Insanity. No other way to describe the resulting crime that has flowed from disastrous bail reform law,” the commissioner tweeted, adding #victims and a link to the article. . . .

Under new bail measures that went into effect in January 2020 in New York, pretrial detention in most misdemeanor cases and some nonviolent felonies is prohibited.

Then there was this:

At least nine Rikers Island inmates recently given a Get Out of Jail Free card by Gov. Hochul have been arrested again, The Post has learned.

Among those who fumbled the Sept. 17 free pass is a reputed gangbanger from Queens who not only was charged with possessing a loaded gun, but trying to bribe his way out of a return trip to the infamous jail, NYPD and law enforcement sources said.

Stepfane “Stephon” Gilliam, 26, is a member of the Queensbridge Houses crew called Team No Lackin’, and has multiple aliases and 43 prior arrests, including 23 felonies, sources said.

After just two weeks of freedom, Gilliam was pulled over by cops Sept. 29 at 9:45 p.m. at the corner of 31st Avenue and 21st Street in Queens, for alleged speeding and having too much tint on his 2004 BMW’s windows, authorities said. Responding cops found a warrant out for his arrest on a traffic violation, sources said. Cops then searched the BMW and recovered a .32 Colt revolver from the back seat.

Those stories are from the New York Post, because America’s newspaper of record, the great Grey Lady, The New York Times, chose not to cover them, or at least no such stories appeared in a site search for Dermot Shea. mThe Times did run a story about Commissioner Shea criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC), but also included an OpEd by Mara Gay, a member of the Times’ editorial board, supporting the get-out-of-jail-free laws.

And Philadelphia’s District Attorney thinks the same way!

Philadelphia leaders say they need more resources to combat gun violence. The city is about to get new help from the feds.

District Attorney Larry Krasner told councilmembers his office needs more money to better work with police: “The collaborations — and we do have effective collaborations — need to be funded.”

by Anna Orso and Sean Collins Walsh | Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | 5:12 PM EDT

Philadelphia police will receive new training and technical assistance from the federal government over the next three years in order to better respond to and prevent gun violence, resources that come as the city is facing one of the worst stretches of shootings in generations.

Local and federal officials announced Wednesday that Philadelphia was among 10 cities nationwide chosen to participate in the Department of Justice’s Public Safety Partnership program, which provides assistance to local agencies and community organizations to combat violent crime at no cost to the municipality. Other cities chosen this year include Louisville, Charleston, and Phoenix.

The National Public Safety Partnership began in 2014 as a pilot program working with a handful of jurisdictions, including Camden. Federal authorities worked with the Camden County Police Department over three years on a variety of strategies, including modernizing how investigators process ballistics evidence and training officers to analyze social networks to better tailor police deployment.

Each jurisdiction’s plan is unique. For example, the partnership in 2016 provided experts to help local officials in St. Louis develop a multi-agency review board for domestic violence. In 2019, it began work with police in Houston to improve forensic evidence capabilities.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said being selected for the program was good news as the city navigates a gun violence crisis. She said a former law enforcement executive who has had success reducing crime elsewhere would be appointed to serve as the city’s “strategic site liaison,” among other forms of assistance.

The announcement of the new partnership comes as law enforcement leaders in Philadelphia are grappling with some of the highest rates of gun violence in decades. The city has recorded 431 homicides so far this year, more than in all of 2019. The vast majority of those crimes were committed with guns, and more than 1,700 people have been shot so far this year. Both figures are higher than they were at this time last year, one of the deadliest years on record.

Meanwhile, the city’s law enforcement leaders have repeatedly — and publicly — sparred over how to reduce violence. Police brass have criticized District Attorney Larry Krasner’s record on convicting people charged with illegally possessing firearms, while the reform-minded prosecutor has said repeatedly that he doesn’t want to replace “the error of the War on Drugs with a War on Guns.”

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It should not take federal dollars, it should not take new review boards, it should not take any liberal pablum, to answer the simple question, how do we reduce crime? We reduce crime one very simple way: when we catch criminals, we lock them up, and we lock them up for as long as the law allows. Isaac Rodrigues, the “Man of Steal” in the Big Apple, arrested 46 times just this year? He could not have robbed the same Walgreen Pharmacy in Queens three dozen times this year if he had been in jail during that time. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Walgreen’s is closing yet another five stores in the City by the Bay, with 17 stores having previously been closed in recent years, due to the ridiculous costs imposed by unchecked theft.

Supervisor Ahsha Safaí said he was “completely devastated” by Walgreens’ latest closure plans. On Twitter, he called the Mission Street store “a staple for seniors, families and children for decades.”

Yeah? Well if San Francisco actually apprehended and prosecuted and jailed thieves, maybe that Mission Street store would still be open. But not with this ‘social justice’ attitude:

Law enforcement officials have attributed much of the city’s retail crime to organized theft rings. But public defenders and social justice advocates have argued that many people charged with retail theft act alone — many of them suffering from poverty, homelessness or substance abuse, and needing rehabilitation or other services.

Well, if they’re homeless, jail provides three hots and a cot!

Philadelphia has its own experience with this. Lewis Jordan, a.k.a. John Lewis, had been treated leniently by the office of then-District Attorney Lynne Abraham, and was out on the street when he could, and should, have been in jail. On October 31, 2007, Philadelphia Police Officer Charles Cassidy walked into a Dunkin’ Donuts, the scene of a previous robbery, to check on it, just as Mr Jordan was attempting to rob the place; Mr Jorden shot Officer Cassidy in the head, killing him. Had law enforcement treated Mr Jordan seriously, rather than dropping the charges if he’d attend drug counseling courses, he would have been in jail, and Officer Cassidy would have gone home to his wife that Hallowe’en.

District Attorney Abraham’s leniency, her sympathy, her do-gooderism, spared Mr Jordan what, six months, maybe a year, locked up. By letting him loose, not even slapping him on the hand, the favor she did him has turned into him spending the rest of his miserable life behind bars.^[1]Mr Jordan has been sentenced to death, but since the reinstitution of capital punishment in 1976, only three men have been put to death, and all three voluntarily dropped their appeals. Governor Tom … Continue reading

Nikolas Cruz was not a victim of ‘mass incarceration,’ because the Broward County Sheriff’s Department let him go without charges on several occasions. Young Mr Cruz could have been in jail on an in-school assault charge, but the school board did not want to contribute to the “school to prison” pipeline, so he had no criminal record, was able to purchase his weapon legally, and now seventeen people are pushing up daisies, because oh-so-well-meaning people didn’t want to take his earlier crimes seriously. All of the favors done for Mr Cruz, to keep him out of jail, to keep his criminal record clean, have led to him spending the rest of his miserable life in jail, and quite possibly a date with the executioner.

The problem with crime isn’t the availability of guns, or we’d be seeing a uniform crime rate across all races and economic levels. The problem isn’t poverty or ‘social justice,’ or we’d see poor people of every race committing crimes at about the same levels.

But that’s not what we see, even if the media try to hush it up. The problem is bad people, enabled by a bad culture which glorifies the bad guys and even gives ‘prison cred,’ a form of ‘street cred,’ gaining “acceptance and respect of people who live in poor city neighborhoods.”

The solution to crime is to give the gang bangers more and more and more ‘prison cred’ all the time, to keep them locked up for as long as the law allows. Because one thing we do know, with certainty: the man locked up in prison can’t knock over a Walgreen’s Pharmacy or shoot a guy he doesn’t like out on the street.