Recent comments in /f/philadelphia

BureaucraticHotboi t1_jed2c0g wrote

This is one of those areas that is just such a dark corner of municipal government that only effects poor people so it hasn’t been subject to the scrutiny that the rest of our government (which definitely still has massive issues) has. This is old school corruption and abuse of power

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BureaucraticHotboi t1_jed230m wrote

With stuff like this, it only comes up when absolutely egregious situations arise and the public protests. The reason we have these “agents” is because until the 60s Philly had elected constables like the rest of PA. They were basically eviction mercenaries and the final straw was one selling the furniture of a destitute family that was evicted without cause and became a public outrage. This type of work is dirty and should only be carried out by public servants who answer to a public office that has the ethics rules of city government. Sadly the sheriff’s department is not really that either

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