[Washington Examiner] Rampant crime has devastated Philadelphia in recent years. From murders to carjackings, innocent Philadelphians have fallen prey to the criminal underworld. After the city experienced a record number of homicides and carjackings, Democratic politicians in the City Council formulated a blueprint in 2023 to deter crime. While it was created in September 2023, a post on X this week revealed that one of the suggestions in "The Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia" to save Philadelphians from being victimized by criminals was none other than "combating institutional white racism." Philadelphia set a record in 2021 for the number of homicides in a year with 562 murders. From 2021 to 2023, there were 1,486 homicides — the most ever during a three-year period in Philadelphia’s over 300-year history. The city recently set a record for the number of carjackings in a year; Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) was one of the victims. Retail theft has wreaked havoc in the area, causing many stores to shut down and move out due to the crime.
Hint: "Institutional white racism" was not responsible for all of those crimes.
If Philadelphia’s Democrats were serious about reducing the city’s crime, they would stop with these ghost hunts of institutional white racists and pivot toward the demographic responsible for the overwhelming majority of violent crime: black men. It’s the unfortunate reality that Democrats refuse to admit and continuously ignore, instead opting to blame things such as "institutional white racism."