Dirtbike or ATV down broad st!

I'm liberal but leaning towards voting both R candidates. The D candidates are much less qualified or fully absent, probably just banking on that D by their name. At least Murray and Hasher aren't MAGA idiots, have actual thoughtful responses addressing real issues like opioid crisis, crime, and the city wage tax, and took time and effort to do any campaigning. Murray in particular sounds like a reasonable and intelligent person who has been involved in his community for years. Both have campaign websites, while Vaughn's is nowhere to be found and Harrity sounds like a jabroni who just happens to know some currently elected Dems. I know the Rs don't stand a chance but I'd support them winning and kind of want to show a protest vote anyway. I'm still voting for most other D candidates.

hard to load a gun when the bullets are super cold!

fuck we're beautiful

cool, edited. my mistake, who knew

The gun violence is coming from inside the Sheriffs!

No, actually the train stands up on one end and then lays down the other way.

>Wish she would come to the table with some solutions once in a while

that is literally all she has done for five years. that's why she said she is running for mayor, in order to have more direct influence to implement the solutions she has been offering as controller

https://www.rebeccaforphiladelphia.com/

also just check out her department's website to see the work she has done: https://controller.phila.gov/

"I love the poorly educated!" - only president impeached twice

Also until our electorate can read at a greater than 7th grade level or pay attention to anything longer than a tweet or TikTok video

Even just demonstrating "being a good manager" is better than we've had with Kenney.

Also, do you really think she's a "bridge burner" ? I don't feel informed enough to say one way or the other, but I don't think her PPD audit was "burning bridges" despite McNesby's hilarious next-day comments (where even he acknowledged she made good points). I thought her office's report was very diplomatic and constructive, placing plenty of the fault for the PD's shortcomings on fixable issues like staffing and process, instead of blaming certain people. I don't know how the report has been received by PPD brass or officers, though. If saying anything publicly about PPD even if mostly apologetic while slightly critical is "bridge burning" well then fuck I guess we're doomed to let PPD dictate our politics.

For me at least, I'm encouraged by her seeming to be diplomatic, professional, competent, engaged, and mission-driven. And yes we've only seen her demonstrate that in a few roles but those seem like skills that will transfer well.

tbh I'd bet the average Philadelphian couldn't name even one of the mayor, DA, police commissioner, controller, or any city councilors

Her actual report was pretty diplomatic towards the PPD, in my opinion. It objectively quantified numerous shortcomings and areas in need of improvement but didn't make efforts to shit on any particular person, and offered plenty of legitimate reasons why they struggled in certain areas, often mainly staffing issues "post"-COVID. I was disappointed (but not surprised) by how hard McNesby cried about it given it actually showed PPD needs help, not hate.

lmao and blocking Broad St from the idiot bikers is a great side effect

were those purchases related?

and kenney reports directly to god

sir this is reddit, it's what we do: read headlines, ignore substance and nuance, call names, shitpost

/s

actually not-/s, this is modern day political discussion

That makes sense - I wonder who is responsible for / who could improve that. Of course Kenney / our next Mayor who actually gives a shit could and should make that a priority but the mayor is not the one that would actually be implementing it. Surely there's some office of HR or something we should be directing our concerns to. Oh I guess that quote above actually specifies the OHR haha:

https://www.phila.gov/departments/office-of-human-resources/

I'll check the budget detail and see if they talk about hiring timeline targets, but I doubt it.

Update: yep, OHR has 32 full time employees and, unless I'm missing something, only 2 performance targets listed, related to producing civil service eligible lists, whatever those are. I was hoping to see something like # of positions unfilled and for how long.

https://www.phila.gov/media/20220901170313/Mayors-FY2023-Operating-Budget-Detail-Book-I-Adopted.pdf, pgs 1133-1135

The city's FY2023 budget includes those types of comments, noting they are down 31 dispatchers (of 246 expected, not counting 39 spots for trainees):

>Currently, Police Radio is 31 positions below its authorized staffing levels. We continue to work to fill these vacancies. We are working with OHR to finalize a pay evaluation and to streamline the hiring process in an effort to fill our vacancies and retain our dispatchers, once hired.

- https://www.phila.gov/media/20220526172241/Philadelphia-Police-Department-Budget-Detail-FY2023.pdf pgs 20, 25

Meaning yeah I think they're working on it, that budget was passed so doesn't look like Kenney is blocking any of that, just takes time.

Re: the residency requirement, I'm not sure that a city of 1.6M people should need to look outside its own borders to hire 30 dispatchers. I don't disagree in general that hiring requirements only add barriers but this doesn't feel like the reason that they're understaffed. I'd guess it's more the interviewing / processing of candidates and the low pay ($46-51k, though I don't know what the expectation for that job ought to be, apparently higher). [update: that range looks normal based on quick googling of other city dispatcher salaries, cities much higher COL than Philly]

Further, I'll check back through prior budgets and see how the current staffing level compares and if the headcount numbers correlate with the reduced response times (something I'd guess the Controller's report would have included if they found anything interesting, surely they did this simple check) and report back, stay tuned.

Update: yeah that group took a staffing hit (like literally every other lower-pay industry) during COVID and is struggling to refill positions. The answer is almost certainly paying more, which ofc being a municipal government is a pain to address.

lol yes, I agree with you, I was being sarcastic haha, mocking all the people blaming 100% of the crime on the DAO when PPD is doing a terrible job too. DAO can't do it's job without police first doing theirs, but idiots will ask "why should police make arrests when DA isn't prosecuting"

>Consistent with national standards, PPD seeks to answer at least 90% of 911 calls within 10 seconds. Between 2017 and 2021, the percentage of 911 calls answered within 10 seconds dramatically decreased from 95% to just 68%. While the decline was most significant between 2020 and 2021, and it appears that some improvement was made in early 2022, PPD has not met this goal since 2018. Additionally, PPD’s time to respond to the highest priority 911 calls was longer than any other large city reviewed.

Why is Krasner/Kenney not letting them answer the phone or respond to 911 calls??

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>From 2016 to 2020, Philadelphia had the lowest homicide clearance rate of the 10 largest cities in the U.S., significantly lower than the rates for cities of comparable size such as Phoenix and San Antonio.

Why aren't Krasner/Kenney letting PPD clear these homicides??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS1pkKpILY

>Saying "fuck the cowboys" and a crowd of people booing a single Cowboys fan doesn't sound like light-hearted fun to me.

sounds pretty light-hearted to me and I think most people

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>some people are going to take it too far.

this is true for everything and has no bearing on normal people's enjoyment of sports and trash talk

I generally agree with you that people ought to minimize negative trash talk and just support their own team, but I also think tribalism etc. is human nature, we're animals, and while we should strive to do better, sports trash talk is imo one of the least toxic issues our culture currently presents. you're not wrong that it could/should be better but arguing that it's akin to hatred and leads to murder is exaggerating it and weakens your argument. maybe you've seen a different side to this than me, but I and most people I know don't take booing personally or seriously.