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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Names of slain Philly cops etched in stone

On Wednesday, April 29, at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington DC, beginning at 1 p.m., Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey will lead a delegation of family members and loved ones of slain Philadelphia Police officers and others to witness the engraving of the names of Sgts. Stephen Liczbinski, Patrick McDonald and Timothy Simpson, and Officer Isabel Nazario, in to the panel of the nation's monument to fallen police officers. The Philadelphia Police Department endured more line-of-duty deaths in 2008 than any law enforcement agency in the nation. A nice touch by which to remember Philly's fallen officers.
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:38 PM, 04/27/2009
    I live in the block above the shooting of the 15 yr old Asian kid last Thursday night and suspected he might be one of a growing gang of Asian kids on our corner after BOK Vo-Tech lets out each afternoon. This group has had altercations with other groups and we have called police on these events several times. It was easy enough for me to go up to a group of young girls the next day and ask them if they knew the kid. They said he was a friend who went to Southwark Elementary up in the next block. But when I asked them what his condition was, another kid in a gray hoodie came by and told me to mind my own business. The girls clammed up and I yelled at the kid that it was my business since its my neighborhood. We have reported seeing drug sales right out at 9th and Dudley (within the "Drug Free Zone)to the 4th District, but no one has come out to investigate or ask questions of the residents. That's how it grows...
    — merilynjj


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