Taking back the streets
The Inquirer today features an editorial entitled "Safe Streets: The sequel" which expresses the hope that new Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Ross will have more than words to offer the goal of decreasing city violence in Philadelphia.
Ross, promoted earlier this month from captain of the homicide unit, is Johnson's choice to oversee a new strategy that includes the reassignment of up to 700 officers. Plainclothes narcotics cops are being ordered back into uniform to work alongside highway patrol officers at selected high-crime locations.A short overview of past efforts is provided along the way.
The officers' focus will be to lock up criminals before they get a chance to shoot someone. Because federal laws for gun violations are tougher, two U.S. attorneys are being assigned to work with police in each of the city's six detective divisions.
posted by ACM at 3:42 PM
2 Comments:
It's insane that this Administration spent tens of millions of dollars on Safe Streets, it didn't have any apparent effect, and nobody calls them to task on it. What a waste of our money.
well, this column seemed to be calling them to task on it, at the very least. "let's hope it's not just more talk" and the like...
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