Official Greater Philadelphia Area Crime Thread (Reading, Hastings: trip, immigrants, terminal)

[BOORGONG]

Originally Posted by ilovephilly79

There's the short game and the long game. The short game is building trust and respect with communities (every community), being aware of the real challenges the police face, and adjusting policies with a focus on being tough on violent crime. But as we've talked before, you can't have effective policing in the worst neighborhoods if you don't fix the relationship issue. The long game is addressing issues with parenting and schooling, which hit on violence, pregnancies, reading, graduating, etc. That's probably an even tougher issue, but it has to follow the short game because you can't get cooperation or support for the long game if you're failing in your short game.

The police, the communities, and our policies all share some blame.

One of the major hurdles is that the culture of violence and truancy instilled by the gangsta rap ethos, aesthetic, and all that. The bling, the laissez-faire pl-attitudes are difficult to counter in that context.

The white picket fence world is light years from the relative comfort zone of ghetto dwellers, and not part of the ideal shared and promoted by families used to segregated districts.

[Redddog]

Originally Posted by Hedonism

Got the rapist!
https://6abc.com/police-id-man-arres...cys-/10366675/


We're too soft on violent criminals in this country. This guy should be locked up forever since his victim is going to have to live with the trauma forever.
Guys like this, once locked up, should never have any 'luxuries' such as TV, dessert, athletics, etc.

Agreed. This poor woman and her husband. Unimaginable.

This animal is beyond rehabilitation.

[cpomp]

Originally Posted by Hedonism

Got the rapist!
https://6abc.com/police-id-man-arres...cys-/10366675/


We're too soft on violent criminals in this country. This guy should be locked up forever since his victim is going to have to live with the trauma forever.
Guys like this, once locked up, should never have any 'luxuries' such as TV, dessert, athletics, etc.

I'll probably get attacked by some for saying this, but what was that monster even doing in Macys?

Cleary not a shopper (maybe a shoplifter). Its sad that these thugs wander their way into Center City and cause irrecoverable harm to people, (like the thugs attacking people with belts at City Hall, wtf...). But that woman in Macys could have literally been anyone. Extremely sad and disturbing.

And I agree, put him in a cell and lock the door and be done with it.

This story made national news by the way...not a good look.

[moneymkt]

Originally Posted by cpomp

I'll probably get attacked by some for saying this, but what was that monster even doing in Macys?

Cleary not a shopper (maybe a shoplifter). Its sad that these thugs wander their way into Center City and cause irrecoverable harm to people, (like the thugs attacking people with belts at City Hall, wtf...). But that woman in Macys could have literally been anyone. Extremely sad and disturbing.

And I agree, put him in a cell and lock the door and be done with it.

This story made national news by the way...not a good look.

Attacking people with belts at city hall? was that a newspaper story

[Redddog]

Originally Posted by moneymkt

Attacking people with belts at city hall? was that a newspaper story

Right? I never saw a thing.

[moneymkt]

Originally Posted by Redddog

Right? I never saw a thing.

Maybe it was in the City Paper or Metro

[Hedonism]

Originally Posted by moneymkt

Maybe it was in the City Paper or Metro

Are newspapers even relevant? It was on the police scanner. A person was also attacked near 12th and Filbert.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by Hedonism

Are newspapers even relevant? It was on the police scanner. A person was also attacked near 12th and Filbert.

Believe it or not, they still are. For most of them, online circulation now tops print circulation, and they remain the primary source for local news.

The trouble is, online revenues nowhere near match the revenues they got from print display and classified advertising, leaving them with less money for the staff they need to cover the news.

To make matters worse, smaller newspapers, and even some metropolitan dailies, face a double squeeze. On the one side, hedge funds whose principal goal is getting an even higher return on their assets than the former owners did (Alden Global Capital, dba Digital First Media and Media News Group, being the most notorious of these*) have been actively disinvesting in local reporters (for instance, The Mercury in Pottstown, once one of the best newspapers in the Philadelphia 'burbs and a Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing in the 1990s, is now down to just one reporter to write about the borough, its surrounding townships and Montgomery County government and civic affairs).

On the other, the big national newspapers — The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal in particular — attract the lion's share of paid online subscriptions, supplanting even metropolitan dailies among what were once their readers.

And then, on top of all this, one other reason that online revenues don't match print revenues is because Facebook and Google vacuum up the overwhelming bulk of online advertising revenue.

Because of these things, newspapers can't provide the local coverage they once did, and broadcast and cable news hasn't filled the void (much of what you read in the papers doesn't offer good visuals). Public media, radio especially, has stepped in to fill some of the local coverage holes, but I've read research that suggests that local government malfeasance has gone up because the local watchdogs aren't strong enough to do the work they once did.

And yes, that hurts us all.

*Most journalists have expressed dismay at the rise of the national chains, especially Gannett, which has pretty much homogenized its local papers around its flagship publication, USA Today. (In the Philadelphia area, it owns the biggest-circulating daily in South Jersey, the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, and Delaware's largest daily, The News Journal of Wilmington.) However, when Alden Global Capital made a hostile takeover bid for the company, journalists around the country rallied around Gannett. (The company found a savior in Gatehouse Media.)

Alden is so reviled among journalists that when it got its hands on The Denver Post and proceeded to gut its newsroom, the remaining employees ran a protest letter to readers on its front page.

[Hedonism]

I see the homeless have moved from under the Convention Center on 12th Street to Filbert Street, across from the Reading Terminal Market.


I realize Kenney is doing his best to act like a San Francisco treat, but this is a bad look for that area.

[moneymkt]

Originally Posted by Hedonism

I see the homeless have moved from under the Convention Center on 12th Street to Filbert Street, across from the Reading Terminal Market.


I realize Kenney is doing his best to act like a San Francisco treat, but this is a bad look for that area.

when you say across you mean the side that Panera Bread is on?