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Daily News reporter Jan Ransom published an excellent article exposing Philadelphia Police regularly breaking people's cameras and arresting them for videotaping or photographing police action--and, potentially, police misbehavior. But Daily News columnist Will Bunch contends that the People Paper buried what should be a very big story by publishing it on a low-readership Labor Day weekend Saturday:
I can't fathom for the life of me why the Daily News -- the newspaper that won a Pulitzer just last year for its courage in exposing police misconduct -- all but buried this article by publishing it on possibly the lowest circulation day of the entire year, the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. I'm not casting aspersions towards anyone -- I've worked here long enough to know that usuallly when things happen here...it's usually just one of those things. That said, it was a big mistake not getting this article to a wider audience, which I hope to do my small part in rectifying.
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The chants:
“We walkin down the street--fuck the police.”
“Fight for teen jobs, not flash mobs.”
“Who runs South Street? Not the police.”
“We need schools, not a curfew.”
Overheard on South Street: passersby respond. Some are sympathetic, some are confused, some aren’t happy. One source says that someone broke into a car belonging to a Civil Affairs Unit officer--no indication it was a protester.
Drunken young white bachelorette: “Thank you!” to police.
A black woman explains to a mixed race group of friends: “They say it’s an attack on black people. But it’s not. It’s just that the kids attacking people happen to be black.”
Young woman in a hijab laughs from across street, joins in: “Not the police!”
Young black man, arguing protesters’ point to his family: “They need more schools, more activities. They probably wouldn’t be out here causing trouble.”
Elderly black woman to family: “Um, let’s get back to the car please.”
Old white woman to husband: "What are they protesting?"
Two young black men, leaning against a store facade: “They talkin about that flash mob shit.”
Small white woman, passing out flyers: “Stop the attack on the African community. Stop the curfew.”
20-something black man, talking to friends and laughing: “I’ve seen the flash mobs on the news, and they’re African and American. And this white lady rolls up, ‘Stop the attack on Africans?’ It’s like, I am an American.”
Policeman talking to other officers: “Who runs South Street, not the police? I’ll tell you what. Get robbed and don’t call me.”
Puerto Rican man to black cop: “Hey, thank you man, for doing your job.”
Coffeeshop employee on phone: “The protest turned out to be the opposite of what we all thought it would be. A bunch of white people. We had thought about closing just in case...”
[Note: protest was about half black, half white.]
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[9pm update from previous post]
About 40 people, black and white, gathered at 8:30pm at South and Broad Streets preparing to walk down South Street to challenge the youth curfew, implemented by Mayor Michael Nutter in response to the recent violence.
A protest organizer told City Paper that all youth present were encouraged to be with guardians and that there are not plans to violate the curfew.
A dozen policemen gathered across the way, and a cruiser made its way down the street loudspeaker blaring: “By order of Mayor Michael Nutter, the curfew for juveniles will be in effect in 25 minutes, at 9pm.”
Pretty much everyone agrees that something needs to be done about the violent mobs of youth who've been descending on Center City and committing assaults and robberies. Early this week, Mayor Nutter announced that his staff was working with various city agencies and public stakeholders to come up with a new strategy. Today he unveiled at least part of it: enforce a curfew already on the books in the first place.
States a press release sent out a few hours ago from the Mayor's Office of Communications:
This weekend, the Philadelphia Police Department will strictly enforce the city’s current curfew law, which states that children under the age of 13 must be home by 10:00 p.m., and young people between the ages of 13 and 18 must be home by 12:00 a.m. There are penalties for minors and for parents who ignore this curfew.
“I want to strongly encourage parents and guardians to be vigilant and to look out for their children this weekend. There is no excuse for young people to be able to participate in coordinated, violent behavior if parents are doing their job. It is your responsibility, not the government’s, to watch your kids.
The press release also notes that we may expect to see increased police presence in Center City and people wearing "iPledge" tee-shirts, which, despite their resemblance to Apple branding, apparently indicate "community leaders who have given their time to help ensure the safety of our city."
iDon't quite get it either.
The Mayor's Press Office held a press conference just now to announce what we were promised was a "major major" personnel announcement.
The big news: Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey is staying here after all, after reportedly being wooed by an offer from Chicago.
According to intrepid reporter Holly Otterbein — who stands on scene as we speak — "everybody and their mother" was present for the announcement, and the room "burst out in applause" at the news.
What enticed Ramsey to stay? Was it our only somewhat-climbing murder rates (way down, albeit, since Ramsey took charge)? Was it the satisfaction of disciplining a police force that's seen more than its share of scandal this year?
Maybe. But Nutter also offered the Chief a raise from $195,000 to $255,000 — an amount, Otterbein reports, that exceeds city ordinance limits but which Nutter says is appropriate since Ramsey serves more than one city function.
More as it comes.
You may remember Philadelphia Police Inspector (and former district captain) Daniel Castro for the indictment filed against him by a federal grand jury, which found that Castro, after losing a hundred thousand dollars in a failed real estate investment, entered into a conspiracy with (he would later find out) a confidential informant to extort that money â and $50,000 extra for his trouble â by force.
Today, the U.S. Attorney's Office filed additional charges against Castro â including outsourcing the intended beatdown and collection to one William "Billy" Wong.
What's more, the new indictment says Castro began referring additional extortion cases to the confidential informant, collecting a $500 referral fee and helping one Alan Kats retain the services of a debt "collector" via Wong.
It's pretty wild stuff. You can read the indictment here.
[...] undercover FBI agent. The Eastern Pennsylvania U.S. Attorneyâs office charged Castro yesterday for referring other would-be extorters to the undercover agentâs collection serviceâsome of his buddies wanted to extract $26,000 out of a similarly failed nightclub deal in [...]
[...] undercover FBI agent. The Eastern Pennsylvania U.S. Attorneyâs office charged Castro yesterday for referring other would-be extorters to the undercover agentâs collection serviceâsome of his buddies wanted to extract $26,000 out of a similarly failed nightclub deal in [...]
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The city's chief integrity officer is, CP just learned, investigating a weekend incident in which the Streets department issued, and the Philadelphia Police enforced, a temporary parking order on a Fairmount block which, according to the observations of one resident, appeared aimed at providing parking for a private party.
This weekend, City Paper caught wind of an interesting incident that occurred on Friday, in which an entire block in Fairmount was suddenly â and for reasons unclear â subjected to a temporary no-parking order.
The details came courtesy of Chris LaPierre, a resident of the 800 block of N 26th St, who told CP today the following story (the incident was mentioned today on Philebrity):
On Friday, LaPierre was having dinner when a Philadelphia police officer knocked on his door and told him (apologetically, he says) that he'd have to move his car, due to a temporary no-parking ordinance affecting both sides of the entire block. LaPierre moved his car (no small feat in Fairmount), and, upon returning, noticed someone else parking on the block. He warned them about the situation, but the driver seemed unconcerned: "The guy said, 'We're fine, don't worry about it,'" he reports.
As the block filled up with cars, LaPierre inspected and found many to have, posted inside their dashboards, written notes on City of Philadelphia letterhead.
He then watched as the newly-parked cars' owners proceeded to a party at the house across the street, a property belonging to attorney Worrell Nero.
A call to Nero's office today was un-returned. CP made slightly more headway with the Mayor's Press Office.
At 6:15 p.m., spokesperson Katherine Martin told CP that the city's Chief Integrity Officer, Joan L. Markman, is looking into the incident and the process by which the temporary parking order was issued.
Ms. Martin declined to elaborate.
Parkinggate? Just had to coin it first. Plus, the double-g is cool.
Also: Vote Drew Lazor! He deserves it, and yes: you can vote every day. Cupcakes, indeed.
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Sounds like this lawyer needs to pay the city for police overtime.
One of the policy changes touted by Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey since he took office in January 2008 is the use of Tasers by police officers to offset the need for using lethal weapons in certain situations, especially when dealing with the mentally ill. A year ago, the Department purchased 1,000 new Tasers.
But police statistics obtained by CP indicate that increased Taser use does not appear to be offsetting use of firearms by Philadelphia police officers.
Since 2008, Taser use has tripled; incidents involving police using guns, however, have stayed at relatively the same level (and the number of shots fired by police per incident has actually increased).
Here's a homemade chart of gun use incidents, gunshots and Taser use incidents (complete data for individual Taser discharges wasn't available, but those numbers tend to be close to the number of incidents):
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| Isaiah Thompson, City Paper |
| Taser use has more than tripled, but police gun use hasn't dropped correspondingly. (numbers represent totals through October of each year) |
For more perspective, you might want to check out this graph, too, showing the same stats (where available) for the last four years. They show Taser use climbing fairly steadily, but also a significant decline in overall gun use since 2008 (Ramsey's first year). Click either chart to enlarge it.
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| Isaiah Thompson, City Paper |
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How about violent crime rate, number of officers on the force, arrests made, etc.? If the crime rate went down, and the number of officers and arrests went up, then the city could technically say the increased number of Taser/gun incidents was warranted. And if the opposite were true, well then this would look even worse than it does. Any insights on those numbers? Might help to create a fuller picture of the situation. Also: Why are Tasers blue in the chart, then yellow in the graph? Perhaps you should consider leaving illustrations to the experts ;)
Raymond Luxury-Yacht: Great points, and I don't disagree that those are important questions. This is new, unpublished data and I thought I'd publish it — but you're certainly right that there are a lot more statistics at play than are contained in my humble charts. The number of officers on the force, it seems to me, isn't so relevant as the number of Tasers issued, since (unlike guns), Tasers aren't issued to all officers. Right now, about 750 Tasers have been issued. There is no question that a rise in Taser-use has correlated with the number of Tasers issued — but correlation is not, of course, causation. As for crime rate, while I agree more stats might shed new light on the situation, I think the number of incidents in which officers had to use guns provides at least some baseline for evaluating the other statistics, but I agree that it would be interesting to compare gun use (which seems to have remained stable) with the city-wide violent crime rate for the last few years. These are composite figures, representing yearly totals; I do have some month-by-month data and will try to get that up as well. As for the colors, good catch! I'll try to fix it tomorrow. Thanks for your comment. - Isaiah
I really think the TASER scrutiny has gone a little overboard. I did a little research myself and put together some (slightly better) charts that you can find here: http://www.stungunmall.com/taser-death-statistics.html As you can see that there are about 48 TASER related deaths per year. For each death, there are 1,750 articles on the web. But for avoidable medical errors - which kills approximately 195,000 Americans each year - there are only .38 articles on the web per death. It's funny how we make mountains out of molehills and completely ignore things that are more likely do us in.
If you intend to put this in proper perspective you will also need to look at other force options being used by the police to see if they have dropped proportionate to the increase in TASER usage. Then you would need to determine if the overall injuries to suspects and police officers has remained the same, gone up, or gone down as officers use TASER as a force option instead of other traditional tools and tactics. A good example would be what happened in Houston Texas. They went to full deployment of TASERs and the next year had an drastic increase in the number of police involved shootings. Looking at that stat alone makes it look somehow realted to the adoption of TASERs. But the same time frame Houston had a 75% increase in violent crime (due mostly to the number of visitors after Katrina) and in spite of this had a reduction in suspect injuries and injuries to officers. BTW, "TASER death" is misleading, the phrase "TASER related death" is much more accurate as there has yet to be a proven death directly caused by being hit with a TASER. Contributing cause, yes. Direct cause, no.
Over the weekend, the Inquirer published an article about crime at SugarHouse, claiming that before Friday's pistol-whipping, "police had received three reports of crime at SugarHouse since the casino's Sept. 23 opening: two reports of theft from cars in the parking lot, and one of a broken car window."
City Paper found otherwise.
According to statistics from the Philadelphia Police Department (see below), there have been 22 reports of crime — not four — since the casino's opening: one robbery by handgun, three reports of theft from cars, two reports of theft that occurred elsewhere, one report of fraudulent conversion, three reports of private-property vandalism, two D.U.I.s, four reports of disorderly conduct, and six reports of trespassing.
This is an especially egregious error given the general theme of the article — that SugarHouse is "one of the most thoroughly policed areas in the city," and Friday's pistol-whipping criminals "defeated tight security." How can you quantify how good or bad security is without accurate statistics?
Two months after the casino's opening, it's too soon to judge security, really. It's also too soon to know if SugarHouse will provide another example of how casinos bring more violent crime to communities, as economist Earl Grinols and others argue.
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If you want to publish clear, meaningful and non-misleading stats - as you advocate - you should provide stats reported in the same vicinity during the same time period in each of the past 3 years. Then the claim that the casino did "bring" crimes to the area can be better substantiated. Standalone stats like this is don't provide even correlation let alone causation. What is the mean and median number of crimes reported in Philadelphia within any comparable area (that is being occupied by the casino) during the same time period? Trends before/after the casino? I would love to learn about the crime and community impact of the casino. I would also like to learn about the "real" economic impact of the casino (other than the stats that politicians/proponents/opponents are touting around). If I know anything about stats (and I do), you can make any sets of stats to look like anything you want. Give me the GIS raw data and I will analyze it for everyone, fairly and objectively.
What a ridiculous comment! The CityPaper blog post is entirely objective. It provides hard data to expose the inaccuracies in the Inquirer article. And it says the jury is still out. (Oh, and I doubt these types of crimes existed at this property over the past 3 years . . . because before the casino it was a vacant lot!)
"Doubt" is an subjective judgement. Crimes don't happen in vacant lots? Where do they find all the bodies in Kensington? Let me show you what you can done with stats. According to the same set of data published above: in the 2 week period between Sept. 28th and Oct. 11th. Only 1 crime (disorderly conduct) was reported at the casino. How many districts can boast that? Let's see some trends. If stats support an increase of crimes reported, then casino "brought" crimes to the area. If not, then it is not substantiated. A snap shot like that is called "statistically insignificant". Like I said, you can't even find correlation without historic data, let along identify causation. Let me just clear this: Inquirer was wrong, but touting 2-month crime stats is premature regardless of over or under reporting. It's best to just report the stats without putting any spin/shade on the issue. By quoting an economist, you preposition the tone of the post.
Your comments don't hold water. You improperly compare a 2-week time period of only one reported crime at this particular address with the amount of reported crime at a "district"? That's ridiculous. And the CityPaper doesn't quote an economist, it questions openly whether the situation at SugarHouse will bear out one of his general conclusions. And it's not "2-month old crime data." It doesn't seem like you have any legitimate complaints about this blog post. You just would've written it differently, which is fine.
Look up the definition for quote. My comments does hold water, the only think this blog post does correctly is to point out that Inquirer posted incomplete crime data. On top of that, crimes reported != crimes committed.
[...] Gets Its Robocall OnThis Moment In DrifterHouse: False Media, We Don’t Need It, Do We?From this crazy-making post on The Clog about The Inky under-reporting crime at SugarHouse: Click to enlarge.“Fraudulent conversation,” indeed. This entry was [...]
Wow, sixphilly, maybe I'm reading your comments wrong, but you seem to me to be really working the defense for SugarHouse. And no one really accused them of anything (yet). I do not find the post anything more than pointing out that the Inky report was wrong and misleading. Four crimes vs 22 over a less than two month period is certainly a statistically significant difference. The difference of four vs 22 over just 54 or 55 days makes the Inky reporter look like she didn't do her own research or she's purposefully interpreting the stats in a particular way. Either of which would make me question their competence as a journalist. It's a difference of once a fortnight vs once every 2.5 days. Your point about whether or not there's more or less crime at the casino than elsewhere in the area is a good question, but the Clog post doesn't speak to that. In fact, they say "it's too soon to judge security, really." Perhaps the post was worded differently before I read it? Because I don't see anything in this post claiming that SugarHouse brought crime/more crime to the vicinity, just a reference to studies of other casinos. But either way, I don't think there's enough meaningful data to make pronouncements yet.
Thanks City Paper for nailing this one down! Might I also add that these are the stats that are reported to police. When Sugarhouse targets vulnerable Asian communities (http://newsworks.org/index.php/homepage-feature/item/7372-15spcasino&Itemid=&Itemid=11), there's on-going concern that these communities may be fully reporting crimes committed against them.
Clarification: There is on-going concern that Asian community members may NOT be fully reporting crimes committed against them.
Agree with comments of both Paul Boni and Helen Gym here. To collect stats that relate to crime IN the casino is also somewhat misleading, since crimes that are committed BECAUSE of the casino, but OUTSIDE it are perhaps the biggest worry, longer term. Domestic violence, child neglect in the home, fraud, embezzlement all may spring from issues that are directly connected with the casino, yet are not identified in reporting because they occurred way off-site. Time will prove Grinols' predictions to be very sadly true, I fear. These disturbing statistics would be the 'tip of the iceberg'! Wait until that casino has developed a whole new population of desperately overspending people, with family responsibilities that they can no longer meet. What harms will occur then? What crimes will be committed that are not reported by embarrassed families, too ashamed to 'go public'? I am not referring to crimes caused by the blatantly addicted patrons here either! The largest number of people who are harmed by excessive casino gambling are the ones we never hear about...the 'at risk over-spenders'...still 'apparently recreational' gamblers with their innocent children whose lives and futures will be wrecked by lack of money. These parents are not officially addicted yet...they are just depleting the family resources savagely...whilst they deny being hooked on gambling! Biggest crime of all is that the government is apparently condoning it! Who is game to report THAT?
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Why should you consider forgoing the Flyers' season opener tonight and instead attend your local police district's public meeting on misconduct and other issues? Just reread Andrew Thompson's February cover on the lack of oversight within the Philly Police Department, and all the troubles that leads to — you'll get the idea.
There will be a meeting in each police district tonight, from 6 to 8 p.m, unless otherwise noted. Everything from police misconduct to quality-of-life issues is on the table. Along with Police Department commanders, there will be also be members from Internal Affairs, the Police Advisory Commission, the Police Clergy and the Police District Advisory Councils in attendance. So if you something to say about cops, now's the time. Click the jump to find out where the meetings are being held (and if you don't know which district you live in, you can find out here):
ROC NORTH MEETINGS:
East Division:
24th District
Salvation Army -1920 E. Allegheny Ave.
25th District
St. Hugh's Church â Mascher & Tioga
26th District
Lutheran Settlement House - 1340 N. Frankford Ave.
Northeast Division:
2nd District
St Williams Church- Robbins & Argyle sts.
7th District
CORA Services-8540 Veree Road
8th District
Norcom Community Center-10980 Norcom Rd.
15th District
2900 St. Vincent St., 7pm
Northwest Division:
5th District
Kendrick Recreation Center, 5800 Ridge Ave.
14th District
New Bethel AME Church, 6153 Germantown Ave.
35th District
Holy Trinity Church, Marvine & Rockland sts.
39th District
Geiger Memorial Bretheren Church, 2543 W.Lehigh Ave.
ROC SOUTH MEETINGS:
South Division:
1st District
St. Richard's Church - 19th & Pollack sts. (3000 S. 19th St.)
3rd District
Mount Carmel School - 2329 S. 3rd St.
17th District
Wharton Square Bldg. - 23rd & Wharton sts.
Central Division:
6th District
Chinese Christian Church & Center - 1101 Vine St.
9th District
Menonite Church, 860 N. 24th St.
22nd District
Winchester Recreation Center - 2330 N. 15th St.
Southwest Division:
12th District
Ezekiel Baptist Church - 5701 Grays Ave.
16th District
Christian Stronghold Church - 4701 Lancaster Ave.
18th District
Sayre High School Auditorium, 5800 Walnut St.
19th District
Sweet Union Baptist Church - 1536 N. 59th St.
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I can't vouch for the credibility of WalletPop or Neighborhood Scout or the methodology they're using, but I'll pass this along, anyway:
For the second year in a row, using exclusive data developed by Dr. Andrew Schiller's team at NeighborhoodScout.com, and based on FBI data from all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, WalletPop reveals the top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods with the highest predicted rates of violent crime in America.
No. 1 is a hood in Chicago. No. 2, Cleveland. Nos. 3 and 4 (and 8), Las Vegas (who knew?). No. 5, the ATL.
And then there's No. 6: North 13th Street, or more specifically, the area bounded by Green Street to the south, Poplar to the north, Broad Street to the west, and 10th Street to the east. According to NeighborhoodScout, this 'hood has a median home value of $101, 973; according to WallePop, you have a 1 in 9 shot (pun unintentional) of being a victim of violent crime here in a year. (That's compared to a 1 in 19 shot citywide, which, let's be honest, is still a bit frightening.) Other thing worth noting: 92 percent of the nation's school districts are rated as being better than ours.
Yikes.
Missing? The Badlands, which has either cleaned up its act (relatively speaking) — and is now less dangerous than No. 25, a neighborhood in my old home of Orlando called Parramore (which is, unsurprisingly if you're familiar with how these things are done in the south, a mostly black neighborhood named after a Confederate general) — or WalletPop just overlooked it.
that's kinda interesting. I've been at 12th and Green every tuesday night at a bar called the institute for the past 4 months or so and have never seen anything remotely scary.
I was in a bike accident last year on 12th and Brown and the neighbors there were very friendly and caring. They helped me up and even called an ambulance. However I had to leave my bike there overnight. When I came back the next morning, after just one night!, it had been completely ransacked for parts
surprised the area northwest of temple isn't listed
that is absurd. there is no way in hell that that area is nearly as bad as almst any block in the "badlands". total bullshit. whoever made this list must be referencing some faulty statistics, or just talking directly out of their own ass. just go to sommerset and any of the lettered streets. it's like a ghost town, with junky apparitions floating up and down the streets like plastic bags on a windy day. the only people in sight are either copping or selling dope, and when that sun sets on that narcotic wonderland, gun shots ring out like satans dinerbell. vegas? i'm sure theres a place like that in nevada, right next to the field of money tress and the office for free health care
This owes to the PHA housing sites in the area, managed out of John F. Street Community Center at 11th & Poplar -- Richard Allen & Cambridge Mall. Obviously this isn't one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Philadelphia, but if the neighborhood list was compiled using federal crime statistics serious home crimes like manufacturing of drugs et al. are much more likely to be represented in a 'slum' with management than without. Methodologies used for these sorts of analysis (apples & oranges) are almost always flawed.
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