I came across this article in The Reading Eagle today:
Following a record number of murders in 2005, Reading ended 2006 with the fewest slayings in a decade.
Eight murders were known to have occurred in the city last year, the fewest since 1995, when there also were eight.
In 2005, a record 24 murders were committed in Reading.
Overall in Berks County, 2006 had 12 murders, including the eight city slayings. Three of those slain outside the city were victims of murder-suicides.
This of course, begs the question to the politicians in Philadelphia, how Reading, which is subject to the same gun laws that they claim are woefully inadequate to stop the rising tide of violence in Philadelphia, has managed such a sharp drop in murders and other crimes? Maybe it’s time Mayor Street calls up Mayor McMahon for some advise on how to deal with crime, rather than begging the politicians in Harrisburg for assault weapons bans and other such nonsense that won’t actually fix the problem.