On Friday, August 1, 2014 4:59:40 PM UTC-4, Stephen Sprunk wrote:   
      
   > Nationally, Pennsylvania is ranked low in rape, burglary and larceny but   
   middle in murder and aggravated assault and high in robbery.    
      
   Philadelphia officials patted themselves on the back when they reduced the   
   annual murder count from roughly 350 to 300.   
      
   However, they ignored that back in 1950, the annual murder acount was 127 with   
   a population of 2.1 million people, while today's 300 count is with a   
   population of 1.4 millon.  Further, that 2.1 million people in 1950 was   
   crammed into roughly half the    
   area the city occupies today.   
      
   They also ignore that New York City drastically reduced its murder count from   
   the dark days of the 1970s and 1980s.  If NYC could do it, so could Phila if   
   they bothered to pay attention to what NYC and other places did.   
      
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