Donald Trump came to Philly on Thursday; This is the massive protest that happened.
Protests against Donald Trump shut down Philly, where Trump spoke at Loews Hotel to plot the ACA repeal with Republicans in Congress.
Donald Trump came to Philadelphia and tried to scare the town about the state of the city. During a speech in front of congressional Republicans on Thursday at the Loews Hotel in Center City, he spoke about crime.
Right now too many families don’t feel secure. Just look at the 30 largest cities. In the last year alone the murder rate has soared. Here in Philadelphia, the murder rate has been steady …
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… terribly increasing.
It was yet another lie from our new president. Philadelphia Police statistics show that the number of homicides has been decreasing in Philadelphia over the last decade. The city hit a low in 2013 (with 243 homicides). There were 277 homicides in 2016, three fewer than the year before.
Almost every year, Americans think crime is going up when it’s actually been decreasing on the whole. Donald Trump is using this to make you feel like the city is much less safe than it actually is, so he can push his policies with less resistance. People might be OK with certain policing tactics they’d otherwise oppose if they think the city is going to hell. It’s not. We have too many murders, and we do need to take steps to lower the number. But starting that conversation with a lie is going to get us nowhere.
