480 homicides in one year: from Philadelphia to hell, with curfews and private militias
Philadelphia is no longer the city of the Rocky festival, but one of the most dangerous cities in the USA In 2019, according to FBI data, the homicide rate was 22.47 per 100,000 residents, with 331 homicides in the same year. Three years later, there were 480 homicides for the whole year.
Most of those affected are black males between the ages of 18 and 45.
Shootings were up 3 percent over last year, while violent crimes were up 7 percent, according to city statistics released in September. Robberies with weapons have increased by 60%, while rapes have decreased by more than 25%. Property crimes have increased by more than 30%. Businesses have been hit especially hard, with commercial theft rising by 50%, Axios Philadelphia reported. Also, the drug crisis in the city is spiraling further out of control with a new drug called " Tranq ", an anesthetic and painkiller used to treat horses and cattle, which turns people into zombies.
Crime is so out of control that the Philadelphia City Council recently passed a 10pm curfew for under -18s, making a temporary law permanent for the summer.
To combat the crime wave, Philadelphia gas station owners have decided to hire armed guards.
“They are forcing us to hire high-level, state-level security personnel,” said Neil Patel, owner of the Karco gas station, who hired Kevlar-coated SITE officers armed with AR-15s or shotguns. “We are tired of this nonsense: robberies, drug trafficking, gangs,” reports Fox5.
The last straw for Patel was the vandalism of young people who stole an ATM. His car also fell victim to the crime, according to the report.
"We wear Kevlar, we're trained, my guards train every other week, they're good with guns and tasers, they know the law," police chief Andre Boyer said. A real-time online survey on the Fox5 website reveals that 93% say they feel safer with AR-15-equipped guards at gas stations:
When asked about residents concerned about armed guards, Patel replied: “I listen to them, but according to some people, violent people, people who carry guns, aren't they afraid of them? This is the protection of the neighborhood and customers."
This is the present and the future of the big US cities governed by the Democrats: a path made of insecurity and widespread crime. Welcome to Hell.
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