WHY DOES THIS CONTINUE?
“This is one of the few places in America where you can wake up Monday flat broke and on Tuesday you can have $10,000 in your pocket.”
-Flac, who manages heroin-dealing operations on a Kensington corner
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“This is one of the few places in America where you can wake up Monday flat broke and on Tuesday you can have $10,000 in your pocket.”
-Flac, who manages heroin-dealing operations on a Kensington corner
inquirer.com/zzz-systest/a/…
@JoshShapiroPA
It’s called the Kensington Initiative, and it’s animated by the principle that simply arresting every dealer or buyer on a street corner for long the preferred tactic for narcotics busts won’t make a dent in the larger drug organizations upending residents’ lives.
It’s called the Kensington Initiative, and it’s animated by the principle that simply arresting every dealer or buyer on a street corner for long the preferred tactic for narcotics busts won’t make a dent in the larger drug organizations upending residents’ lives.
The intel-driven effort, federal, state and local investigators meet for weekly huddles to share info has dismantled 5 Kensington heroin networks. Those arrested include a man they describe as a leader of the Clementine ring, Brandon Perez, 29.
Bill McKinney, director of the New Kensington Community Development Corporation, is among those adamant that his neighborhood needs more than law enforcement to solve the deeply entrenched problems of poverty, inequity, and addiction.
Shapiro sees his plan as what the AG's office can do to help residents move safely about their neighborhood.
Despite decades of police responses, investigators rarely bother to study whether the community’s quality of life improves after a series of drug busts
Despite decades of police responses, investigators rarely bother to study whether the community’s quality of life improves after a series of drug busts
To that end, with $350,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, they’re partnering with Temple criminal justice researchers to see if their efforts are helping in a community where drug sales are perhaps more concentrated than anywhere else in the nation.
Shapiro said reclaiming corners is his ultimate goal: “To me, the measure of success is whether you reclaim that block so a mom could walk their kid to school and not worry about getting shot or stepping on needles or bumping over people who are battling addiction.”
“We’re going to have to answer for this being allowed to exist in America, in Philadelphia. There’s something wrong here.”
“G,” a figure in Kensington's heroin-dealing operations
@PAAttorneyGen what about the National Guard? How is this not an emergency?
“G,” a figure in Kensington's heroin-dealing operations
@PAAttorneyGen what about the National Guard? How is this not an emergency?
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