I don’t think it even occurs to ABC News that the reason Philadelphia has such a high murder rate is because the city politicians refuse to do a god damned thing about the criminals. This article seems to offer credence to the city’s notion that its crime rate has more to do with ignorant country rednecks tying the city politician’s hands, and preventing them from doing something about the evil guns, rather than asking why they aren’t doing something about the evil criminals.
It’s easy to fiddle while Rome burns when you have willing accomplices in the media who will assure the public that the fiddling will actually help put out the fire.