Recent comments in /f/philadelphia

Effective_Golf_3311 t1_j96ejvl wrote

Well keep in mind that police are the literal enemy in the city, making it easy for shitheads from the county to come in and cause trouble, because it’s pretty well known there won’t be consequences. Suburban counties actually put people in jail making it less attractive to losers like this kid to do shit there instead of making the short drive to the city.

Then factor in how short handed PPD is since it’s been made abundantly clear to them (see my first article) that they aren’t wanted and are unliked, and it becomes a self fulfilling problem and is an inevitable downward spiral that will only cost the city and it’s residents in the long run.

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datruesurfer t1_j96eb3o wrote

We need tougher judges across the board. This girl was killed in Manayunk a few years ago by her own father. But the whole thing started with a custody dispute in bucks county family court. Judge flat out ignored all the warning signs and granted unsupervised shared custody to a mentally unstable man.

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burrata-academy t1_j96e9hx wrote

Just anecdotal evidence, but I grew up in the burbs—a really nice one tbh—and have run into classmates on the El suffering from addiction. Have family members who have ended up down in Kensington addicted to heroin.

I always joke that if you’re raised in the suburbs you end up in the city, one way or another: either for college, for a better job, or with a drug addiction. All the “City Bad Suburbs Perfect” people never want to hear it though.

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Lunamothknits t1_j96e2h5 wrote

-whispers- I've been bitching about this for years.

People think the city is just soooooo scary. The county has plenty of its own criminals, and they often come here to fuck around. They've been treating the city as their personal playground for a while. I mean, look at the stats on who's down on the Ave seeking a fix.

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