Originally Posted by LookingOverTheFence

Thank you NBC10!

You want to compare the city with the burbs?


http://www.nbc10.com/news/9531203/detail.html

PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia is reeling from a burst of violence that made it a deadly weekend, according to police.

As of Monday, there have been 214 murders in Philadelphia this year. Since Friday afternoon, nine people have died.


http://www.nbc10.com/news/9526384/detail.html
Police said a taxicab driver was shot to death early Monday morning in West Philadelphia.

The cabbie was pumping gas at a service station when someone walked up to him and shot him in the back of the head. He was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?se...cal&id=4368014

July 15, 2006 - There was a violent home invasion in the Port Richmond section of the City early Saturday morning. Two women were raped, and a man pistol-whipped, before the attackers fled the scene.