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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Nutter's Statement on Fallen Cop
Mayor Nutter's press office just put this out:

MAYOR'S OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS


Tuesday, November 18, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


STATEMENT FROM MAYOR MICHAEL A. NUTTER


Philadelphia, November 18 – Mayor Michael A. Nutter has issued the following statement:

It is with profound sadness that I announce that the City of Philadelphia will once again observe a 30-day period of mourning in honor of a fallen police officer. City flags will be flown at half staff during this period.

Last night Sergeant Timothy Simpson was killed in the line of duty. He was involved in an auto accident at Aramingo & Allegheny Avenue and was transported to Temple University Hospital where he died.

Sergeant Simpson was a 20-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department and he is survived by his wife Kathy, and their three children Samantha, Terry, and Courtney. My thoughts and prayers, and the thoughts and prayers of all Philadelphians, are with the Simpson family at this unimaginably difficult time.

It is a tragedy that now on four occasions this year, five in just over a year, Philadelphia has paid tribute to a Philadelphia Police Officer’s life of service given to the people of this city. On this day we remember Officer Charles Cassidy, Sergeant Stephen Liczbinski (Sergeant Simpson’s former partner), Officer Isabel Nazario and Sergeant Patrick McDonald. We also remember Officer Gary Skerski who died in 2006, Officer Walter Barclay, Jr., who died in August 2007, and so many others who have died in the line of duty.

We will never forget their sacrifice and we will never yield in our efforts to make this a safer city. I can think of no more fitting tribute to these heroes who have fallen in the line of duty.
Posted by Catherine Lucey @ 12:47 PM  Permalink | File Under: Nutter | | Nutter | 3 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:12 PM, 11/18/2008
    That's why it's unwise to slow PPD hiring, and foolish to cut the PPD highway patrol just because the state is patrolling some highways. The drunk/substance impaired drivers are everywhere. We need all hands on deck. And we can afford it, and police and families have to demand that the politicians go after the money owe the city like unpaid property taxes. There is $568 million in unpaid property taxes owed the city. The city holds millions of dollars of property out of the tax paying stream so it can play politics. This has to end when its cops lives that are sacrificed. But the union has to demand that the city collect overdue property taxes and liquidate its long held unused or underused assets. Here's the city's own data; numbers don't lie. http://www.hallwatch.org/proptax/about/redelinq/stats/summary
    — CleanupPhilly
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:15 PM, 11/18/2008
    If cops and their families are not demanding that the city sell off the property held for years at at time that could pay millions, cops will be the ones who face the cuts first. You are "easy" to cut, but collecting taxes is politically hard, and fixing the bureaucracy and politics that holds up selling city, RDA, and PAID assets is hard work. The proof? The top property tax delinquents, the people who should be paying for cops, are the RDA, PAID, and the city. http://www.hallwatch.org/proptax/about/redelinq/stats/topdelinquents/mailingaddress
    — CleanupPhilly
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:46 PM, 11/18/2008
    Lets go people, start faxing your representatives to take ation and collect the outstanding money owed to this city. The free ride is over. Sheriff Greene its time to start doing your job.
    — Flyers2001


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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics ­– which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Catherine Lucey joined the Daily News in 2002 and has written about murderous drug gangs, political protesters and Harry Potter. After covering the 2007 mayoral election, she moved over to the City Hall bureau where she has been reporting on the Nutter administration.
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans.
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