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CRIME: Can a few thousand dollars track down Society Hill shooter?
Neighbors take solving a brutal attack into their own hands.
CRIME: Can a few thousand dollars track down Society Hill shooter?
Within days of the shooting of Darren Rogers, 46, on a normally peaceful block of Pine Street in Society Hill on Nov. 7, police had posted a surveillance video (after the jump) that clearly showed Rogers being assaulted and then shot by two white men. Now, more than a month later, Rogers is still struggling to heal from his extensive wounds — and the shooters are still at large.
Since the police haven't succeeded — and press attention has subsided — so neighbors are determined to do something about it themselves. They're trying to raise $4,000 for a reward and have been collecting donations from $15 to $500 for residents of the neighborhood. The organizer, who didn't want to give her name because she's afraid of being the next target, says, "I, and some other people in the neighborhood, feel that if you knew these people [the shooters], you would recognize them. So it's an incentive for someone to come forward."
The reward will be offered via the Ciizens Crime Commission, which puts out rewards for about 50 to 100 cases each year in the Delaware Valley — giving both incentive to report information, and a publicity push. John Apeldorn, the commission's president, says the anonymity offered to witnesses sometimes helps, but not always. "We have success stories," he says, "but not all cases are going to be solved."
Two cowards who needed to outnumber an innocent person and then pull a gun on an unarmed man. Well see how tough they are in prison...— ethicaloversite- It's a complete waste of money. If neighbors want to do something good, why not raise money to give to the victim and his family? He probably earns very little. Is he fully insured, by the way? Will his medical costs be met? What about therapy after he leaves hospital? Who will pay? Will he be able to work? Will he have a job? Has anyone visited him? Has anyone been in touch with his family? These things are much more important than wasting money on a futile search to find the criminals.
The real problem is the lack of police on the street. Having police cars patrol is just not the same and I think most neighbors know this but we have allowed our Police Department to change the system -- and look at the results.
The City wastes millions of dollars on frivolities but we have inadequate police protection. How much did we have to pay to get rid of an incompetent and greedy school head who should never have been hired in the first place? She sued the School District of SF before she came out to Philadelphia. Even so the City hired her! How much did we have to pay to get rid of this individual? Nearly a MILLION dollars? And now she is taking $500 a week in unemployment compensation!
How many employees do our overpaid City Council members have on their staff -- lots of them useless people who collect good salaries, benefits and pensions? Why can't City Council reduce staff and do a little work themselves?
How much does DROP cost us?
How much do our teachers get paid compared to private school teachers? and why is it that public school teachers usually hold mediocre degrees compared to their lower paid peers in private schools? Why do we pay such high salaries for such poor results?
If we have an unsafe city all the rest is useless. If we can not walk the streets without fear, what is the point? Where are our priorities?
— Citizen2009
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