Kevin Bohn recently reported on violence in Philadelphia and the nation. I include an excerpt:
Isaac Diaz walks through the toughest parts of North Philadelphia each day on his way to and from high school. But what really scares the 18-year-old senior is lying in his own bed at night.
He can hear the gunshots then.
“Last year it wasn’t so often. Now it’s as often as every night,” Diaz recently told CNN. “It might be your best friend dying, and you don’t even know about it.”
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Nationally, violent crime is spiking, too.
FBI data from December, the most recent statistics available, show murders and robberies rose by 3.7 percent nationwide during the first six months of 2006.
Those findings came on top of a 2.2 percent crime hike in 2005 — the first increase since 2001.
Read entire article by Kevin Bohn.
I felt very disappointed while reading that article. Why does the US government have so much money to squander supposedly trying to stop the violence in Iraq, while U.S. cities have so much violence? (Especially since the efforts in Iraq seem to only make matters worse!)
What do you think?
