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Democrat-Run Philadelphia: More than 650 Shooting Victims Thus Far in 2024 |
2024-07-31 |
![]() According to City Controller Christy Brady, 141 shooting victims shuffled off the mortal coil and 511 survived. Brady also pointed out that 85 percent of the shooting victims were male, 15 percent were female, and 81 percent of the victims were "Black (non Hispanic)." The Philadelphia Police Department maintains a database on homicides in the city that shows 153 people have been killed in Philadelphia year-to-date. The figure of 153 homicides is 38 percent below where the city was on the same day in 2023. On April 11, 2024, WHYY pointed to a Pew Charitable Trusts report which showed that the somewhat diminished homicide and "The total number of major crimes — which is the combined tally of |
Posted by:Skidmark |
#1 Some additional background Crime Data on the Philly situation. Violent crime runs 2+x to 5x the US national Average (from 2005 to 2022), depending on the year. |
Posted by: NN2N1 2024-07-31 09:53 |