WEST PHILADELPHIA - Neighbors are fed up and taking action to protect their communities from the violence plaguing the city right now.As the raindrops fell Wednesday night outside the Wharton Wesley Church, residents still shaken by the recent gun violence in their neighborhoods gathered to try and take their community back block-by-block."A lot of the neighbors decided that they needed to do something.
They want to be involved with something that's part of the situation," Ronald Ryan with Town Watch said.The murder of 16-year-old Kahree Simmons two weeks ago on the Christy Rec Center basketball court a few blocks away, brought homeowners out to learn how to form a town watch on their own streets."We can be like the suburbs.