At an event this afternoon, Michael Nutter renewed his call for a "crime emergency" in the city, after a weekend stunning even considering Philly's brutality, with 11 murders.
Nutter thinks it's 10, but we think it is actually 11.
"We are a City in crisis," Nutter said in a statement, "and rhetoric by the administration is not going to cut it."
"Philadelphia is in trouble and we need to move right now to stop the violence from escalating."
Nutter has called for the ability to declare a "limited crime emergency," which would allow the city to create "targeted enforcement zones" in high crime areas.
Behind those terms is a stark truth: Inside the zones, cops would conduct targeted crackdowns, including stopping and frisking people (in a way that the authors of Nutter's plan say would be constitutional, and indeed other cities have done it) and enforcing arrest warrants.