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JerryEveryday t1_je0gc7k wrote

Nothing nice about Nicetown.

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TimeFourChanges t1_je0snh4 wrote

There are plenty of nice people. I worked there my first two years in Philly, at Gratz (pre-Mastery), and found the vast majority of the people in the community are fine to great. Yes, of course, there is excessive violence and there are some mean-spirited kids, but rarely is the violence unprovoked. I treated my kids and their families with respect, and I usually got it in return (freshman are hard, though, til they get to know you.)

Please remember the people that hate this violence as much as you do, but are directly impacted by it.

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Scumandvillany t1_je0uiof wrote

Yes. The overwhelming majority of people in the most affected areas are decent people who go to work and have jobs. Thank you. They want more than anyone for the murderers and shooters to be arrested and brought to justice, but it can be difficult to "rat", because that opens your family up to retaliation violence. If objective evidence gathering devices like cameras were ubiquitous, and forensic analysis/tools were modern and reliable, murderers and shooters would be caught and arrested and prosecuted, these people would praise God, and their communities would be made much more safe. It's only a few thousand people out of 1.6 million that are shooting and murdering. They need to go away for a very long time, and we can focus on what's next and get some room to live.

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hubbu t1_je15utb wrote

My rescue dog came from nicetown. He's nice!

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