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From YouTube: Councilmember Johnson Floor Speech 12 -10-2020
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From the Stated Meeting of Philadelphia City Council held December 10, 2020.
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I
pledge
that
I
will
not
stop
working
on
solutions
with
my
colleagues
today
we
voted
on
legislation.
I
sponsored
to
cut
off
the
flow
of
ghost
guns
in
our
communities.
This
bill
was
a
direct
result
of
hearings.
I
held
this
fall
at
those
hearings.
Law
enforcement
testified
that
an
increasing
ship
crime
guns
recovered
in
philadelphia.
Are
ghost
guns
made
from
kits
with
simple
tools
from
home
depot
and
tutorial
videos
on
the
internet?
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This
is
a
follow-up
on
a
series
of
hearings
that
have
started
from
this
summer
and
fall
that
examined
the
reasons
for
our
massive
spike
in
gun.
Violence.
Top
topics
would
include
the
new
group,
violence,
intervention
program,
victim
services
and
trauma
counseling
for
affected
communities,
the
homicide
and
non-fatal
shooting
clearance
rate
and
the
conviction
rate
for
shootings
that
result
in
arrests.
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Another
pressing
issue
facing
our
city
is
the
rapid
spread
of
covet
19
within
philadelphia
jails
and
pennsylvania
prisons,
which
affects
thousands
of
philadelphia's.
Both
inmates
and
staff
join
this
pandemic
jails
and
prisons
happen
at
infection.
Hot
spots
in
philadelphia
is
no
exception.
At
the
beginning
of
the
pandemic,
there
was
a
significant
and
collaborative
effort
on
the
part
of
city
stakeholders,
including
city
council,
to
limit
the
spread
of
covet
19
within
philadelphia
jails
and
keep
nine
down
offenders
out
of
the
jails.
Now
that
covet
19
infection
rates
are
surging.
We
must
renew
these
efforts.
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Currently,
there
are
over
4
000
foot
office
being
housed
by
the
philadelphia
department
of
prisons.
There
are
thousands
more
housed
by
the
pennsylvania
department
of
corrections
and,
of
course,
there
are
thousands
of
corrections,
officers
and
staff.
We
owe
it
to
these
foot
up
fellow
philadelphians
to
address
this
issue.
We
also
owe
it
to
ourselves
if
the
staffers
and
inmates
are
infected
in
our
prisons.
When
they
come
back
into
our
communities,
they
will
bring
coven
19
with
them.
We
cannot
afford
to
ignore
this
issue,
as
the
second
wave
of
this
pandemic
rises.