FTA:

"The robbery victim was not injured."

Happy ending all around.

I rly needed this feel-good story on a Friday.

Well, well, well. How the turntables ...

Do you live in Kensington?

Would you want the city to set up a safe injection site around the corner from your residence?

If they opened up one in Point Breeze where I live, I'd consider selling at a slight loss now to get out before the addicts took over the neighborhood.

No one wants to live around this shit and have their tax dollars go towards making their local addicts lives easier.

You have to let them hit rock bottom, enabling their addiction just keeps them stuck in it longer.

I lost my cousin to alcoholism last year, we grew up like brothers. The worst thing his parents did was not kick him out and let him spend a few hard nights on the street. They let him live with them throughout his addiction, and now he's gone. They enabled him right to the end.

The reason I'm saying all this is to provide context and show I'm not trying to be a callous asshole towards addicts. If you make the lives of addicts too easy, you keep them stuck in the cycle of addiction. You've gotta let people hit rock bottom because that's what will force them to stop.

Right now, the city is just ensuring future business for the drug dealers. The dealers are winning on every front. The city is reviving their addicts with Narcan, beautifying their drug dealing areas, the dealers are killing it rn.

FTA:

"Patrice Rogers, executive director of the outreach program Stop the Risk, has the goal of helping people with addictions return to their families. Rogers’ activism was initiated after her husband became addicted to heroin and died in a motorcycle accident."

"She believes that concentrating harm-reduction and prevention services, such as mobile street clinics, in Kensington only encourages people with addictions to remain."

“We’re known as the Disney World for users. If you give free food and a free shower and free needles, why should you ever leave and return home?” Rogers added. “I used to feed 200 people, but I wasn’t helping them. I was enabling them."

"There is a deep weariness with the status quo in the community, but also a kind of wariness about who is served by the plan."

“We’ve suffered enough in Kensington,” said Gilberto Gonzalez, a community activist and student recruiter at Community College of Philadelphia. “There are so many levels of injustice. There is no other part of the city that allows people to put up tents and pile up trash.”

These folks nailed it.

The city is incentivizing drug addiction in Kensington by turning a blind eye to it.

The city is bending over backwards to enable drug addiction in a specific neighborhood in the city. It's completely fucked. I have no idea what Kensingston has done to deserve this treatment from the city.

They're cleaning up parks so they're nicer for the people nodding off in them all day.

I guess it'll make the drug dealer's work experience more enjoyable too. Now that they've got federal funds beautifying their drug den.

No amount of taxpayers funds can make a neighborhood plagued by drug addiction nice to live in.

They could've spent the whole $200 million on Kensington this one year and it still wouldn't address the root issue.

No one cares how nice the park a few blocks away is when there's a junkie trying to sleep on your front steps.

It's the B Street Bridge in Kensington.

It looks different now cuz they painted murals along the side but it was 46 years ago so a lot's changed. The tavern from the original Rocky was right near the bridge but it's long gone now.

Impeach Krasner.

It's crazy how a soft-on-crime DA across the country in Colorado is getting heat here when we have our own DA here in Philly that does the same thing and he get's a complete pass on this very subreddit.

You're right.

I was wrong about that being Krasner's fault instead of the state legislatures.

We need stricter laws at a state level to address this.

I can admit when I'm wrong.

> You seem desperate to blame this on anyone but the PPD when this is clearly something they refuse to enforce.

Did you even bother to read the article?

FTA:

"Philadelphia police officials acknowledge the department lacks automated plate readers and other technology to trace cars with faked tags."

How can they when they lack the tools to do so?

Tackling this problem would involve increasing funding to the police, something many people on this subreddit are vocally against doing.

> The issue is that with this currently being a summary offense, the Philadelphia police won't do anything about it because they will just consider it part of the Driving Equity Bill and something they are not allowed to pull someone over for.

City Council passed the Driving Equity Bill, which was a bullshit policy change that has resulted in more lawlessness on the roads.

How is it the cops fault they're being undermined by City Council?

FTA:

"Some police officers blamed relatively light penalties for emboldening the sale and use of bogus tags. Possession of a fraudulent license plate in Pennsylvania is a summary offense — essentially a fine — while making, selling or knowingly possessing forged plates is a misdemeanor."

So it's right back to Krasner.

Phony license plate should be considered serious fraud.

Can someone tell me what Krasner does actually criminally charge people for and not as a bullshit summary offense?

It's the same thing with shoplifting.

The reforms that Krasner made when he took office in 2018 have undone decades of progress in this city.

> If the relief bills were the sole cause of the issue, other countries wouldn't be having inflation issues as well.

Those countries also passed massive spending bills in response to Covid.

>Which they are not doing any longer. They printed three checks. It wasn't enough money per person to keep someone afloat longer than a few months, much less two years.

Did you forget the federally enhanced Covid unemployment payments people got? It was $600 a week by itself, and that was on top of whatever your state unemployment was.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/11/us/how-covid-stimulus-money-was-spent.html

$740 billion went to unemployment benefits.

Businesses had to compete with the government for hiring workers.

The government paid people to sit on their asses and it contributed to a massive labor shortage. If you give someone the option of either sitting at home on their ass and getting money for doing nothing or going into work and busting their ass to earn it, people will choose the free lunch.

>Inflation is typically caused by an increase in production, material, and/or logistical costs.

You forgot a big one, labor costs.

Inflation is caused by overprinting a currency, like the US has been doing with the dollar the past 2.5 years.

You can't just print trillions of dollars out of thin air and expect your currency not to be devalued.

Look at Zimbabwe or Venezuela for a case study on runaway inflation.

Government's can't spend their way out of inflation, it's literally what got us in this mess in the first place.

It's supply and demand.

There's more dollars out there competing for products than there are actual products, so the price of those products is going to increase cuz there are more dollars out there chasing a finite amount of product.

The government printed trillions of dollars and handed it out to people, paying them to sit on the couch for over a year, instead of contributing to the economy for it like everyone else does.

My dollars that I worked for are competing with dollars that the government just printed and handed out for products.

That's why we are in this mess and we absolutely can't spend our way out of it, cuz that's how we got here in the first place.

If businesses have to raise wages to compete with the government that is paying people to sit at home, then they are going to pass that additional cost of business along to the consumer, further contributing to inflation.

That's why the government shouldn't pay people to sit around and do nothing, because it makes it harder for businesses to find workers.

Okay.

What do you think causes inflation?

Senators vote on spending bills, which greatly effects inflation.

Inflation is the number one concern for voters rn, and understandably so, it's fucking everything up.

It's a kitchen table issue.

>And what does Fetterman or the democrats have to do with inflation?

Fetterman would support greater government spending, resulting in even more inflation.

The money printer has been going non-stop since all these Covid relief bills started flying left and right.

You can't spend your way out of inflation, that's what got us in this mess in the first place.

Personally I'm shocked the Pittsburgh Post Gazette endorsed Fetterman.

I don't know much about this publication, but they are the 2nd biggest paper in PA.

I'm surprised a mainstream publication like this endorsed a Republican. The Inquirer endorsed Fetterman, but that was a foregone conclusion. They're the Inquirer, everyone knew they were going to endorse Fetterman.

I think the debate hurt Fetterman more than the media is letting on.

His campaign hid his health condition from the public, downplaying it at every opportunity.

IMO, they were hoping to get as many early mail-in votes cast as possible in his favor before the electorate could see how bad his aphasia is.

He still won't release his health records either.

I think Oz narrowly walks away with this one.

Inflation is just too bad, it's the number one issue in this election.

Septa police needs an easier number to dial.

FTA:

>In addition to the ATVs and dirt bikes, investigators also found roosters and fighting dogs.

Otherwise known as the Kensington hat trick.