Nutter says he will hold a press conference at 4:15 Thursday in front of the Criminal Justice Center for a "public safety state of emergency" in city neighborhoods hardest-hit by violence. (Read the press release in our PR archive.) And what does that entail? Well:
Block off the streets and restrict vehicle access to create safety zones for the targeted communities
Establish new curfews and limit public travel in the safety zones
Coordinated arrest of all probation/parole violators by city, state and federal agents
Installation of surveillance cameras in the targeted areas immediately
Close certain businesses earlier than usual
Aggressive confiscation of all weapons on the streets in target areas
Significantly increase police presence and activity in the safety zones
We'll post an update to the blog as soon as the event is over.
Comments (8)
Safe zones? Curfews? Restricted vehicle access? Surveillance cameras? Sounds like martial law to me. This approach will inevitably spread to other areas of the city and infringe upon the freedoms of the innocent citizens of Philadelphia. If Mr. Nutter HAD to live one of these targeted zones he would think a little more about what he plans to do. I think he can accomplish the same goals by simply having the cops assigned to these areas do their jobs properly, like pulling over traffic violators (some do not) and ALWAYS question and disperse loiterers.
Posted by John | October 12, 2006 4:50 PM
Maybe we can also get a color coded alert system.
Posted by Dan | October 12, 2006 5:17 PM
Have you ever been to a community meeting in one of these high crime areas? For better or worse, I think many of these people are so desperate that "the freedoms of innocent civilians" is the last thing on their minds.
My neighborhood doesn't even have much of a violent crime problem, and most people at a recent neighborhood meeting on crime seemed dumbfounded when the police district representatives said that some people are opposed to crime cameras, which is one of the reasons they haven't been deployed yet.
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