Interactive Philadelphia Homicide Map - 2008 data added -Inquirer

[Malloy]

Philadelphia Homicides | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/20/2008

59 less murders in 2008. Not bad...but certainly not good.

[Two Street]

Gotta love North and West Philly.

[c0llins]

Zero in Fishtown

[ArcticSplash]

You can see the effect gentrification can have on violent crime such as homicides. Pull the tab back to 1988 and look at the area just immediately south of Rittenhouse Square. It's just as bad as Point Breeze.

Then click on each successive year and look at the same area. Notice how the dots wipe away from the Rittenhouse area down to Washington after 2000 and stay below Washington between 2005-2009.

[devilspocket]

Homicides, imho, need to have stories attached. The only one in my immediate neighborhood was in 1994. Two guys, buddies, were drinking on the stoop. They got into an argument and one went into his house, got a knife and stabbed the other. This was not premeditated, was not a danger to anyone else in the neighborhood, was not something that increased danger to residents in the city. This could have happened anywhere where drinking and testosterone were involved. I wonder how many other 'murders' have similar stories.

[govtstatistic]

I Do hope Those lawyers Have Signed An agreement To Be Paid In Case They Lose This Case,
Or,
Is This A Continuing Tax Payer Burden?
?
?
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I Wonder How He Would Make Out If This Went To Court?

[govtstatistic]

Sorry about this mods , but this was meant to be posted in
head of pha facing foreclosure
2 stories down
please if possible repost this there
thank you