Philadelphia mayor rejects calls to bring in National Guard to address crime wave: 'Not respectful'
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Stanley Crawford, whose son was murdered in 2018, said the National Guard should be called into Philadelphia to steam the surging crime.
"Bring them in and use them strategically. They have the data and the statistics to know where the violence is occurring. Put the National Guard there," Crawford, who cofounded the Families of Unsolved Murder Victims Project and the Black Male Community Council, told the local newspaper this week. "It doesn't have to be for a long period of time. Just until you stabilize the murders and shootings." Mayor Jim Kenney flatly rejected the idea of bringing the National Guard into Philadelphia on Wednesday, saying that he doesn't think it would be an "effective tool to bring in uniformed, camouflaged, gun- rifle-carrying people in helmets to address this problem."More Related News