Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood has gained international infamy as a hot bed for drugs and crime, but one candidate for mayor says the solution is simple.
, several of whom previously served alongside him on the Philadelphia City Council. He said the city's tolerance of public drug use isn't helping anyone.
"The message right now is this city does not care about the residents, the children, the young people who are selling and dealing drugs and the drug addicted themselves," Oh said., Oh said drug addicts who are arrested would be provided with detox or mental health services. "But when the word goes out that Kensington as people know it does not exist, the people seeking to exploit people will no longer come there," he said, and addicts from other counties would no longer flock to the neighborhood to"live for years on the sidewalk or in an alley, prostituting, stealing, being injured, being harmed, losing their mental capabilities."
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