After years of rampant, widespread criminal behavior, Philadelphia Democrats have finally realized they need police officers to help prevent the city’s crime problem. Under its new mayor, Cherelle Parker, the police department will increase the number of officers on patrol on weekends, particularly Friday and Saturday nights, CBS News reported. The policy change was announced by Deputy Commissioner John Stanford last week.
“Hitting those hot spots that we know we have violent crime, those hot spots where we know we have continuous ongoing crime, that’s going to be their primary focus,” Stanford said.
The Philadelphia Police Department will deploy the officers to neighborhoods with high violent crime rates, according to CBS News. The belief is that a strong police presence will help deter crime, a basic philosophy that the city’s Democrats turned away from in recent years because they embraced radical ideological pursuits instead of decades of centuries of law enforcement and, arguably, thousands of years of human nature. This avant-garde approach to criminal justice led many innocent people to suffer. The increase in police will go a long way in preventing such violent acts.
“A significant contingent of officers, they will traverse throughout the city, obviously with the idea in mind of crime-fighting,” Stanford said. “Hitting those hot spots that we know we have violent crime, those hot spots where we know we have continuous ongoing crime, that’s going to be their primary focus,” Stanford said.
The move is part of Parker’s new plan to fight crime in the once-great American city. Plagued with homicides and carjackings in recent years, the City of Brotherly Love, one of the most important cities in world history, has become a shell of itself. Parker’s plan is a step in the right direction to help change that.
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However, people should note the reason for the policy reversal: the complete and utter failure of the criminal justice policies of Democrats. Under the disastrous (and arguably pathetic) leadership of former Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney, the city’s government advanced an attitude that could be described as anti-police. They seemed to view police as a source of problems instead of the brave people entrusted to serve and protect, often risking their own lives as part of the job.
Under Kenney, Philadelphia sneered at the police and was afraid to use them to limit crime. So far, Cherelle Parker has brought back common sense to the city government.