PHILADELPHIA - City leaders are now trying to get out in front of the seemingly endless stream of shootings.
They shared some staggering statistics at their first gun violence briefing.Numbers show out of the 103 homicides in Philadelphia this year, 13 are children and 12 of them died from gunfire."We are all responsible for what goes on here.
This is our community. These are our children," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.Of the 412 Philadelphians shot in 2021, 40 of them are under 18.In the city’s first gun violence Zoom briefing, there was a wave of grisly statistics charting the unrelenting violence — numbers but no new policy."We need some help not only from the state but from the feds to slow the flow and.