Posted on 10/14/2007
at 04:18 PM
Category: News
Posted by Brandi
"On the streets of Philadelphia's toughest neighborhoods, just trying to get ahead can get you killed.
"You got a good-looking girlfriend, you're going to get shot; someone wants her," said 17-year-old Andre, who asked his last name not be used for this article.
"If you're getting a little money, you're going to get shot -- someone wants that. Any way you look at it, it's just a bad situation."
"...Over the past couple of years, Philadelphia's murder rate reached highs not seen since the 1980s, according to the Philadelphia Police Department. So far this year, more than 315 people have been killed, a pace of well over a murder a day, police said. That's a higher rate, according to FBI statistics, than much larger cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York."
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