The www.ppdonline.org website should win an award. I use it all the time. It's the most used Philly related website I refer to or put useful information into. Thanks to the PPD IT people for it, and to Ramsey for improving it still further.

One tiny request? Please allow us to download photos TO YOU, PPD, or videos. It's easy.

One more tiny request? Keep separate stats for PHA properties, since they have their own police force, and make this public info available to the public. PHA has to decide which scattered site housing it is going to sell to build safer, better, award winning housing, and citizens want to be part of that conversation, as should all law enforcement.

For example, here are some PHA houses with sanitation violations and/or a history of drug activity at least involving the front steps, in a community that is turning around and going forward:

http://s251.photobucket.com/albums/gg311/elsaphiladelphia/PHA%20Housing%20SWCC/

So what do we do to get visual info to you like you so effectively get to us, and how do we get info you input into other law enforcement entities like the PHA police that is public? Thanks.

Plus, the new Most Violent Felons wanted list is a .pdf file, not an html file, so it's not got a link to where you report online information, like the HIDTA website that is where you are directed when you click on "Homicide Fugitives."

Reporting online is critical. It works so well in the "Reports" section, where you can jump to the reporting form and start typing.

For people who are scared to speak into a telephone for fear that the neighbors will hear them delivering up a really bad guy, or for those who have so much information that they have to write a report of it, they really need access to online reporting for all of the suspects listed on www.ppdonline.org.

Also, just Kudos to Ramsey and to those hard working captains who have done so much with so little for far too long.

It's time for the city to fully fund their requests for all improvements.

We can afford it: just foreclose on the $494 million in uncollected property taxes, most of it on property that is held in limbo by the city, the RDA, and other government agencies that don't want to pay property taxes, but don't want to sell the property to someone who can pay.

Time to make serious changes to this:

www.hallwatch.org/proptax/about/redelinq/stats/summary

and to this:

www.hallwatch.org/proptax/about/redelinq/stats/topdelinquents/mailingaddress

Police, schools, and street cleaning are primarily funded by property tax revenue.

It's the job of every journalist, every pol, every ordinary joe, to make sure that the city is growing and not killing its own source of tax revenue.

That's called growing a tax base.

We can't be the socialist haven where some big brother pays for us while we pay for nothing in real money, in real time. We're not Cuba, and there's no big brother USSR willing to fund us. Hey, that's true for Cuba now too.

We have to pay our own way, and the state should stop sending us money until we behave like a normal city and assess and collect property taxes normally.

When police are not afraid to demand that the city aggressively collect the $494 million in overdue property taxes, and when cops are smart enough to force the BRT to do full market value assessments, they'll finally get paid what they are worth, and get enough resources to do the job they want to do.