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From YouTube: Inside Philadelphia City Council: Curtis Jones, Jr.
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Majority Leader Curtis Jones, Jr., discusses public safety challenges and representing the 4th District in Philadelphia. Inside Philadelphia City Hall airs on Comcast Channel 64 and on PhillyCAM (Comcast 66 & 966; Verizon 29 & 30).
A
B
Public
safety
means
different
things
to
different
people.
Public
safety
to
the
lady
coming
home
at
night
on
the
septa
platform
and
is
attacked
by
a
stranger
means
something
different
to
the
expectation
of
the
child
when
she's
delivered
to
the
public
school
and
the
expectation
of
the
police
officer
that
goes
on
a
shift
or
the
young
urban
mail
that
gets
stopped
at
two
in
the
morning
by
the
police
officer.
So
public
safety
is
not
one-size-fits-all
and
what
we've
tried
to
do
in
City
Council
is
make
sure
all
of
Philadelphians
are
looked
after
in
different
capacities.
B
I
did
not
want
to
be
honest
with
you,
Public
Safety,
the
former
councilwoman
Donna,
Reed
Miller
chaired
it,
but
she
went
on
and
retired,
and
it's
just
unnatural,
sometimes
for
urban
mail
to
want
to
be
around
the
police
prisons
courts.
Fire
departments
things
like
that,
but
because
of
the
serious
nature
of
it
impacting
so
many
of
my
constituents,
I
took
one
of
the
responsibilities
at
the
requested.
B
A
B
Reenter
at
the
rate
of
500
a
week
from
incarceration
to
Philadelphia
and
those
people,
don't
they
are
not
from
another
planet
they're
from
our
neighborhoods
and
the
idea
is
to
get
them
to
a
point
where
they
are
self-sufficient
and
where
there
are
productive
members
of
our
society
as
opposed
to
the
defendant.
Please.
So
there
is
a
link
to
public
safety
because
of
reentry
and
re-incarcerated
rates
that
Philadelphia
has
experienced.
So
we
took
one
that
issue.
B
We've
took
it
on
the
issue
on
the
other
side
of
it:
public
safety
cameras
to
protect
individuals
to
be
a
force
multiplier
for
the
existing
police
force.
Because
it's
it's
real
easy
to
say.
We
need
500,
more
police
officers
to
take
on
the
almost
national
groundbreaking
one
murder
a
day
that
this
city
experiences
or
you
can
use
technology
in
a
way
that
is
creative
and
actually
aids.
The
police
officer
at
the
street
level
to
keep
us
safe
on
that.
A
B
Long
before
I
got
here,
Councilwoman,
Miller
and
council
president
Clark
introduced
gun
legislation
to
ban
weapons
and
certain
types
of
purchases
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia.
So
much
so
that
the
NRA
national
NRA
came
here
and
filed
a
lawsuit.
The
legislature
are
allies
in
Harrisburg,
actually
prohibit
us
from
introducing
more
gun
legislation
that
they
believe
supersedes
their
authority
at
the
state.
So
it
started
there.
B
We've
looked
at
the
fact
that
guns
and
bail
there's
a
correlation
there
that
sometimes
our
courts
have
not
done
enough
to
recognize
that
if
an
individual
on
monday
takes
a
gun
and
says
to
you
I'm
dangerous,
you
let
them
out
on
Tuesday
and
then
on
Wednesday.
They
try
to
convince
you
again
that
they
are
dangerous
and
have
a
gun
that
by
Thursday
you
should
believe
them
and
that's
differed.
Ale
should
be
a
part
of
it.
Talk
to
us
about
gun
stat.
B
What
we've
looked
at
is
how
crimes
happen
in
the
district
attorney,
along
with
the
mayor,
started
to
use
evidence-based
statistics
about
where
crimes
happen
and
then
to
map
and
triangulate
who's
doing
it.
And
so,
if
you
have
a
corner
like
in
my
district
24
Finley
I
wear
every
Friday
through
setting
some
buddies
going
to
get
robbed,
then
we
start
to
pay
attention
to
that
corner
and
the
actors
and
they
created
a
task
force:
multi-jurisdictional
federal
City,
a
state
law
enforcement,
but
not
just
law
enforcement.
B
The
people
that
are
looking
at
child
support
cases
tickets
and
saying
that
these
individuals
have
been
identified
as
people
of
interest
that
are
committing
five
percent
of
the
population
committing
ninety
percent
of
the
crimes,
and
so
we're
going
to
make
sure
that
we
pay
particular
attention.
So
when
Joe
Joe
comes
in
for
his
regular
routine
roundup
and
he's
accused
of
something
he
doesn't
get
the
assistant
to
the
assistant
district
attorney,
he
gets
the
number
two
gun
and
we
pay
attention
and
we
don't
try
to
railroad
him.
But
we're
going
to
give
you
the
best.
B
We
have
because
you're
giving
us
the
worst
you
have,
and
so
that
has
begun
to
work.
If
you
look
at
this
time
last
year,
murders
are
down
now
we
have
the
summer
to
get
through,
but
the
crime
stat
theory
is
to
take
down
that
entire
corner
and
give
the
right
hand
of
fellowship
to
those
who
come
next
and
you
don't
have
to
follow
their
example.
Here
are
programs
for
employment.
Here
are
things
that
you
can
do
to
make
yourself
a
part
of
society
as
opposed
to
a
resident
up
at
the
state?
Obviously,.
A
What's
going
on
in
the
country
right
now,
the
climate
is
really
there
for
at
least
from
public
sentiment,
to
make
some
changes
around
gun
legislation
and
gun
law.
When
you
look
at
what's
happening
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
what
you
mentioned
before
about
the
state
kind
of
stepping
in
a
superseding,
what
you
tried
to
attempt,
do
you
think
there's
new
space
to
operate,
intend
to
maneuver
into
doing
some
new
things
around
gun
legislation?
Well,.
B
B
They
will
hit
you
and
end
you
without
prejudice,
so
when
the
less
effective
are
as
incense
as
the
most
effective
change
tends
to
happen,
and
so
we
believe
that
timing
is
right
for
some
gun
legislation
and
no
we're
not
going
to
get
everything
we
want,
but
we
might
limit
the
number
of
of
guns
sold
in
one
month
who
needs
30
guns
in
one
month,
I
mean
what
are
you
building
up
for
or
if
a
gun
is
stolen,
you
have
to
report
it.
These
are
common-sense
measures,
if,
indeed,
you
have
a
protection
against
abuse
order.
B
Maybe
we
should
let
you
have
a
cooling-off
period
and
not
sell
you
a
firearm.
Now
these
seem
like
common
sense
things
to
most
people
most
rational
people,
but
there
are
those
extremists
who
believe
that
you're
infringing
upon
their
constitutional
right
to
bear
arms.
Well,
it's
ridiculous,
and-
and
if
you
look
at
what's
happening
to
us,
we
are
statistically
safer
in
Afghanistan.
Then
in
walking
the
streets
of
the
city
of
Philadelphia
life
is
precious
even
in
urban
Philadelphia,
and
so
those
people
who
would
defend
their
constitutional
right
don't
walk
the
streets
at
night
of
Philadelphia.
Do.
A
B
B
Memorializing
someone
in
their
neighborhood
I,
remember
as
a
freshman.
I
keep
these,
because
these
were
left
over
from
a
gun
crime
scene.
The
police
officers
couldn't
find
all
of
the
shelves
that
were
there
and
there
was
a
memorial
placed
at
the
scene
days
later,
but
kids
were
playing
root
within
that
week,
right
near
the
memorial,
so
I
watched
the
clinics
with
movie,
where
the
end
our
movie,
there
were
seven
murders,
that's
just
a
bad
weekend
in
Philadelphia
in
some
parts
of
our
town.
B
So
we
have
to
it's
not
just
what
people
in
Oklahoma
feel
or
Utah
field.
It's
what
we
have
to
be
incensed
with
about
what's
going
on
in
our
neighborhood,
and
so
it's
not
for
just
law
enforcement.
It's
letting
young
people
know
that
life
is
precious
and
that
conflict
resolution
shouldn't
happen
at
the
end
of
a
gun
and
that
he
is.
She
is
your
brother's
keeper
and
you
should
consider
their
life
precious
and,
and
we
have
to
do
a
better
job
of
civility
and
teaching
citizenship
in
our
schools.
B
A
B
Would
say
in
part
they
are
right,
but
it's
a
partnership
that
we
play
our
role.
We
cannot
mandate
legislate
what
happens
at
your
dinner
tape
and
whether
or
not
you
go
up
to
your
child's
school
when
there
is
a
confrontation
and
when
you
go
there,
are
you
responsible
enough
not
to
join
in
in
an
adolescent
way
but
responsible
enough
to
take
responsibility
for
your
child
if
indeed
they're
wrong,
and
we
have
to
teach
that
morality
to
our
children
and
government
can't
do
that.
B
It's
important
that
our
religious
institutions
play
a
part
because
that
moral
Center,
whether
you're
Jewish,
Muslim
or
Christian,
has
to
be
there.
You
have
to
have
some
morality
given
to
those
kids
and
then
the
other
pieces
that
they're
a
lot
of
single
parent
heads
of
household,
predominantly
female,
that
you
I
have
to
pick
up
the
slack
for
so
sometimes
it
doesn't
come
from
dad
comes
from
the
coach.
B
B
We
have
to
change
the
paradigm
if
you
would
take
responsibility
where
we
must
and
then
hold
people
accountable
when
they
proliferate
firearms
in
our
community
and
we
need
to
let
them
know
and
like
we
did
in
Council
that
we're
willing
to
question
your
pockets
so
we're
willing
to
divest
like
we
did
in
South
Africa
when
it
came
to
apartheid
that
companies
that
invest
in
firearm
companies
that
produce
assault
weapons
that
we're
willing
to
take
your
money,
our
money
out
of
your
investment
portfolio,
because
that's
how
serious
it
is.
Mayers.
A
For
gun
safety
have
said
that
they
want
to
use
some
of
that
leverage
that
they
have
had
in
a
different
way
and
much
of
what
you're
talking
about
being
able
to
say.
You
know
what
we
have
a
police
force.
We
have
to
make
sure
that
they
are
equipped
with
weapons,
we're
going
to
buy
our
weapons
from
you.
If
you
continue
to
block
our
efforts
to
create
gun
safety
legislation
in
our
own
cities,
have
you
gotten
feedback
on
that
from
those
entities
I'm
wondering
if.
B
The
yesterday
I
don't
think
they
take
us
seriously
yet
when,
when
our
portfolio
managers
have
given
them
advance,
warning
I
think
there's
a
six
month
to
a
year
warning
period
and
then,
when
we
start
just
the
vesting
I
think
they'll
take
us
seriously.
It
is
only
when
you
impact
their
bottom
line
that
they
pay
attention
to
what
what
they
view
is
collateral
damage
by
selling
a
weapon
in
our
community.
When.
A
You
talk
about
what's
been
going
on
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
public
safety,
wise
and
involving
the
police.
Recently
there
been
a
couple
of
cases,
one
where
a
gentleman
was
found
not
guilty
of
assaulting
the
police
while
taking
an
assault
himself
and
then
another
gentleman
who
was
found
not
guilty
of
assaulting
a
woman
at
a
Puerto
Rican
Day
Parade
there's
been
a
lot
of
outcry
from
the
public
to
be
able
to
address
these
kind
of
issues.
A
B
B
I,
don't
just
mean
for
the
accused,
such
as
mr.
sabor,
you're
talking
about
who
was
found
innocent
who
was
beaten
in
my
district,
but
also
for
the
police
officers
that
often
are
accused
wrongly
so
a
process,
a
cloud
stays
over
their
head
for
two
years,
just
like
it
stayed
over.
Mr.
supporters,
head
for
two
years,
so
the
people
are
that
are
in
blue,
are
going
I've
gone
to
too
many
police
officers
funerals
two
men,
so
they
deserve
public
safety.
Just
like
mr.
sabor.
A
taxpayer
deserves
public
safety.
B
So
we
need
to
create
trusted
processes
that
can
keep
us
balanced
so
that
no
one
runs
away
with
justice
and
when
I
say
that,
if,
if
people
don't
have
confidence
in
a
complaint
system,
then
we
start
to
lose
the
middle.
And
what
do
I
mean
by
that
that
you
create
a
Robin
Hood
in
Reverse,
where
they're
rooting
for
the
bad
guys,
not
for
the
guys
and
blue
that
are
supposed
to
protect
us,
because
then
they're
viewed
as
an
occupying
force,
as
opposed
to
our
sworn
protectors,
counselor.
A
One
of
the
things
that
you
mentioned
was
taking
on
violence
in
the
city
in
multiple
levels,
and
one
of
the
ways
is
doing
it
is
to
deal
with
kind
of
the
criminal
aspect
of
it
is
the
prevention
piece
and
making
sure
that
our
youth
aren't
in
situations
where
they
feel
like
they
have
to
commit
crimes
or
use
weapons.
So
talk
about
some
of
the
efforts
that
are
out
there
to
try
to
keep
kids
from
getting
in
the
criminal
justice
system
in
the
first
place.
Well,.
B
What
often
happens
is
a
kid
winds
up
in
a
vicious
cycle
of
suspension,
not
attending
school,
not
getting
a
good
education,
some
of
the
scariest
things
I've
heard
or
designers,
architects
and
engineers
say
to
me
that
if
an
urban
cake
cannot
read
up
to
grade
level
by
the
fourth
grade,
that
they
know
how
many
prison
cells
will
be
necessary
by
the
time
they
turn
18.
So
we're.
If
you
know
that,
then
you
can
reverse
engineer
the
solution
to
that.
B
Let's
get
better
education
in
preschool
and
by
the
fourth
grade
they
should
be
able
to
read
up
to
level.
So
youth
courts
is
a
concept
that
we're
engaging
instead
of
suspension
that
you
have
a
peer
mediation
group
where
you
have
a
youth
judge,
a
youth
jury,
a
youth
prosecutor
to
come
in
here
about
a
suspension
was
out
in
Chester
where
they
implemented
that
and
they,
the
judge,
came
in
all
rise
and
I.
You
know
started
talking
about
the
court
in
a
serious
way
and
he
made
me
sit
up
straight.
B
I
turned
off
my
cell
phone
and
the
young
people
all
in
the
room,
took
it
seriously
and
took
responsibility
for
their
actions.
So
a
captain
of
a
basketball
team
had
an
outburst
in
the
back
of
a
classroom
because
the
teacher
didn't
have
control
of
the
class,
so
he
told
his
friends
shut
up
and
when
she
turned
around
all
she
saw
was
him
so
when
she
began
to
put
him
out
the
room,
he
acted
out.
Bend
the
desk
and
she's
suspended
him.
B
That
meant
he
wasn't
going
to
be
able
to
play
basketball,
he's
going
to
be
embarrassed
to
his
parents
and
they
gave
him
the
option
of
peer
mediation
or
youth
courts.
He
came
in
contrite.
He
had
a
representative
representative,
the
jury
deliberated.
They
asked
him
strategic
questions
like
is
the
classroom,
often
out
of
control?
Yes,
did
you
ever
try
to
confront
the
teacher
about
the
problem?
No,
what
would
you
do
differently
and
he
talked
about
it
and
they
made
him
go
out
to
room.
B
His
sentence
was
to
write
and
read
a
essay
in
front
of
class,
which,
for
us
is
a
little
embarrassing
times,
but
it
would
it
prevented
him
from
being
suspended.
It
gave
empowerment
to
the
young
people
and
it
gave
him
an
opportunity
to
have
a
second
chance
and
not
a
bad
record
in
his
file.
The
beauty
of
that
model
is
you
one
day
you
to
defend
it
next
week,
you're
trained
to
be
a
jurist
and
someday
even
a
judge,
and
so
it
teaches
citizenship
and
self
responsibility.
B
But
it
would
be
court-mandated
all
for
half
of
half
of
what
we
spend
every
day
to
put
them
into
human
kennels
for
lack
of
a
better
word.
So
we
need
to
do
some
things
differently.
Our
former
police
commissioner,
said
we
can't
arrest
our
way
out
of
our
problem.
We
have
to
change
mindsets,
we
have
to
change
paradigms.
We
have
to
do
some
things
differently.
Some
guys
and
women
need
to
learn
back
to
how
to
do
things
with
their
hand.
So
a
plumber
an
electrician,
a
painter,
a
carpenter.
B
These
things
were
taken
out
of
public
school
shop.
We
need
to
put
them
back
and
not
necessarily
to
the
degree
that
you
are
a
licensed
plumber,
but
if
you
can
change
a
$12
well,
X
ring
off
of
a
tallit.
You
can,
in
my
community,
make
a
living
honestly
and
a
lot
of
these
kids.
If
you
give
them
that
alternative
to
be
able
to
have
the
dignity
of
work,
won't
choose
the
gun,
and
so
we
need
to
give
them
that
right
hand
of
fellowship
or
left-hander
punishment,
choice.
How.
B
A
The
other
part
dealing
with
keeping
children
occupied,
keeping
the
youth
occupied
so
that
they're
not
getting
involved
in
some
of
these
activities
in
those
fret
saying
about
idle
hands.
Are
there
efforts
to
close
those
gaps
between
time
that
schools
over
to
the
point
in
which
parents
are
back
home
or
they're
having
to
go
home
and
take
care
of
other
family
members
that
three
to
four
hour
period
in
which
many
children
are
unsupervised?
Well,.
B
You
point
out
an
interesting
statistic
again
that
that's
when
the
problems
happen,
latchkey
kids,
who
don't
have
activities,
are
more
inclined
to
get
involved
in
some
mischief
that
winds
up
in
criminal
activity.
Flash
mobs
happen
because
people
are
bored,
I
mean
I
talked
to
young
people.
We
have
a
youth,
commission
and
I
said
well.
What
is
this
phenomena
of
flash
mobs
so
councilman?
They
are
closed
after
school
programs.
They
don't
let
us
in
the
gym.
And
what
do
you
expect
us
to
do?
B
B
No,
that's
Johnny
he's
got
a
heck
of
a
jump
shot
and
we
not
gonna
mess
with
it.
So
sports
is
the
great
equalizer
boofing
race,
but
in
neighborhood
violence
it's
a
it's,
the
kind
of
thing
that
we
have
taken
for
granted,
but
because
we've
cut
it,
you
see
up
tix
in
that
kind
of
youth.
Violence
and
I
don't
mind.
Is
the
devil's
workshop
councilman.
A
Another
factor
to
public
safety
is
that
often
goes
under
reported
and
under-recognized
is
the
impact
that
the
environment
has
on
impoverished
communities
and
how
that
can
roll
forward
and
impact
a
lot
of
different
areas.
You're,
someone
who
didn't
necessarily
see
themselves
as
an
environmental
hero,
but
that's
where
you
start
starting
to
find
yourself.
I've.