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Reader's Request

My sense of time is all over the place lately (and we haven't even changed our clocks yet), but at some point fairly recently, a reader requested that I start posting the city's ever-rising homicide numbers on Philly Confidential.
Happy to oblige.

As of 10ish tonight, we're at 70 murders for the year. We were at 56 at this same point last year. (FYI: Number Seventy was an unidentified 18-year-old, who was shot to death on a South Philly street corner.) Last week, we pointed out that Philadelphia is leading the nation's top five cities in homicides, in some cases by a wide margin. But as a devoted blog reader in Baltimore pointed out, things are pretty grim in the Charm City, too.

Will be sure to post something more substantive tomorrow. Be safe, people.

Comments (900)

Swifty:

If people would just learn to stop being disrespectful, there would be so much fewer murders.

What do you guys think?

Shamolonique:

You gots that rights, Swufty, dees felllas been doin' to many disrespectun a each other in da clubs. Ma babies don need no prison visits jes to see dem dadddys.

ed4u:

yea yo philly jus keeps it gangsta get in wer u fit in.

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Uno spazio per dire la vostra sull'operato del governo e dell'opposizione.

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