I thought I would share to everyone what I am writing my Philadelphia paper on since it concerns every student that attends this university and everyone in this class and surrounding area. What I am specifically focusing on in my paper is the ever spreading violence in Philadelphia over the last four years. Over the past four years, we have seen a spike in violence and homicides around this area, with 392 last year, and 406 the year before. Furthermore, the amount of students getting robbed or help up around campus has been ever widening as well.
This is why I chose to focus my paper on this subject since it means a lot to many people around our area and university. I am writing about how Philadelphia once was a great city to live in and how over the past twenty years until now, we have seen many things change in our neighborhoods and the way we view the city as far as people living in it and the way we see our city as a whole. I think the way we perceive this city certainly has changed over the past eight years since many people felt our previous mayor and commissioner did not do a very good job.
Our previous mayor seemed to be caught up in his own world while violence was plaguing our streets. Instead of focusing on the problem, he chose to brag about his new IPhone and other stupid things. Also, the police commissioner thought he would make a desperate plea in the time of violence to ask citizens to keep a watch out on the streets with community policing when it is the police officers that should be doing the job. No matter whose fault it is or was, the problem still exists and needs to be corrected or everyone is looking to jump ship and leave, with many already moving elsewhere.
Fortunately, so far this year, homicides are down 20 from last year, which is a very good start and promising outlook to the rest of the year. Many more police are going to be hired in the coming year to protect the high crime and drug areas and our new mayor and commissioner seem to be doing a pretty good job so far. Hopefully they keep it up as time progresses to keep our city the once great city it was. We should want to look at this city and be proud of it when people come to visit it or think about it. I thought this was a good topic for my paper because it really lets me reflect on my views about how I saw the city ten years ago when I lived here and how I see it now. I see many changes from then to now and I can tell all about it in my paper.
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Brandon, this is a good topic for your paper and it will allow you to express yourself on topics you are passionate about; however, Mayor Nutter might not be as good as he would like us to believe. I don't know if your old enough to remember but when Mayor Street was elected into office, he was geting things done in the city. He was cleaning the streets of Philly quickly and one way he did it was by removing all the abadoned cars off the street. This was a great effort to improve Philly but it did not last. Like you mentioned in you piece, he was more involved in coruption then he was in the city. Mayor Nutter is starting out in a simular way like Street. This makes me scepicital of Nutter because I wonder if his time in office will be simular to Street's.
Oh I totally agree with you because in all politics there is always a little bit of corruption for the most part. I am not saying that it was completely Street's fault, but he could have certainly contributed to it. Of course we cannot put the full blame on one single person, but your right we really cannot say anything about Nutter yet because it is too soon. So I guess only time will tell to see who was better in making the city better.
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