A year after taking office, the mayor faces challenges from gun violence and opposition to a proposed Sixers arena. Despite acknowledging progress in reducing gun violence, officials are also grappling with the city's persistent issues of safety.
As the mayor marks a year in office, she is shadowed by a spate of gun violence and opposition to the Sixers arena.Having spent a few decades now covering all manner of gun violence , including the past 13 or so years in Philadelphia , I’ve learned that this much is true: Violence is never isolated.
And yet, even as city officials deserve some credit for acknowledging both the progress they’ve made in addressing gun violence and the persistence of it, on two different occasions during a 30-minute news conference early last week, leaders referred to aIt wasn’t “the norm,” they said, and four times, they insisted the shooting “didn’t define us.” This was “the best year” we’ve had in more than a decade, with killings down 37% compared with this point in 2023.The news conference actually hit a lot of the right notes, with speakers seemingly working off the same two-part script:“Yes, you do know what the stats are,” said Mayor Cherelle L. Parker. “They affirm that even despite this weekend’s gun violence, we are making some progress. But it’s not enough. The numbers don’t mean a damn thing.”, on a mic, and she seems to have rubbed off on other public officials who’ve majorly flubbed in the past. That includes District Attorney Larry Krasner, who clearly learned his lesson after he got slammed nearly three years to the day in December 2021 for hisAnd the thing is, he and other public officials mostly did just that — they spoke with care and sensitivity for the moment. (Extra points to Krasner for hisFor starters, let’s look at the “isolated“ myth. Acts of violence are connected to broader social, economic, and systemic issues. And they don’t just impact the immediate victims, but the surrounding community. There is always — always — a ripple effect beyond the initial incident. Neither Center City nor Dilworth Park exists in a bubble, no matter how much the city’s commercial honchos might wish it di
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