A Look At How Police Handle Gun Violence Crisis In Philadelphia



With a series of mass shootings and a rise in gun violence affecting communities across the U.S. this summer, many families are faced with the devastation of smaller incidents. NBC News’ Jesse Kirsch embedded with Philadelphia police officers on a busy night shift that began with four people being shot. Warning: Viewers may find some of the images difficult to watch.

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42 comments

  1. I’m so happy I now live in the suburbs, I worry about my parents who refuse to move from the city. Where they live at there is constant crime around them from theft to murder. The city needs better leaders and a better DA

  2. YA THEY DONT TELL Y'ALL ALL THEM KILLING AND SHOOTING IN ALL THESE BIG CITIES THAT THEY ALL HAVE A BLACK POLICE CHIEF OR BLACK MAYOR.

  3. Apparently the cops eat the offenders? They should “allocate “ themselves some more salads.

  4. POLICE CANT FIX THE PROBLEMS.. THEY JUST TAKE ORDERS .. I KNOW BECAUSE IM A COP 👮🏻‍♂️ 😖💙

  5. I don't blame officers for being the way they are. The government has caused these problems for all the lawlessness in America and letting the bad guys get away with the crimes they have caused.

  6. TmR from that block the most respected underground

  7. Stabbings, needles, drugs, overdoses?? There’s bigger problems here than criminals pulling the trigger on other criminals! They’re calling these gangs “organizations”. Does that mean that “organized crime” is the main problem in Philly? Then call in the FBI and Eliot Ness!

  8. US states with the highest homicide rate are the Republican-led states of Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Missouri. 8 of the top 10 cities with the highest violent crime rate are the Republican-led cities of St. Louis, Missouri – Jackson, Mississippi – New Orleans, Louisiana – Memphis, Tennessee – Cleveland, Ohio – Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Kansas City, Missouri and Shreveport, Louisiana. 9 of the top 11 states with the lowest per capita state spending on law enforcement are the Republican-led states of South Dakota, West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Iowa, Arkansas, Indiana and Kentucky.

  9. What do people expect the police to do? They're not allowed to stop and frisk. Are not even allowed to question suspicious looking groups. If a member of the "population" attacks an officer and gets shot, whether wounded or killed, you can count on riots following.

  10. Philadelphia has an open air market for fentanyl in Kensington

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  13. Interesting news coverage,.

  14. PHILADELPHIA IS A CITY GRIPPED IN VIOLENCE AND GUNS, AND RAVAGED BY OPEN AIR DRUG DEALING AND USAGE : 1. The police are severely undermanned – they can't give that job away. 2. The mayor, by his own statement two weeks ago no longer wishes to be mayor and finds himself unable to cope with the demands of his job. 3. The police commissioner is feckless an in over her head – she knows nothing, absolutely nothing of running a large, urban police department in a city beset by guns and drugs. 4. The district attorney is a wolf in sheep's clothing – he sees it as his job to turn as many criminals loose as he can, hence his street name "let um loose larry". Finally, snowflake reporter visits who gesture with their hands don't impress anyone with their hand ringing accounts of the daily carnage, except possibly themselves. This is what it has come to in large areas of Philadelphia. IT'S THE PERFECT STORM.

  15. Yes baby the fent is killing Americans

  16. i dont know…. maybe we would be doing people a favor by not saving them with Narcan. Anyway, Mayor Kenny doesnt care about that part of the city or any other disenfranchised town in Philly, despite families living there. After all, people on the Mainline and wherever he lives in the city dont have to wake up every day to trash and drug addicts. In short, he is just collecting a paycheck while he counts down the days until the end of his term. I just dont understand why he doesnt step down. I could never have that many people die on my watch.

  17. How about looking at the root causes of these problems? Shouldn’t matter how far back in time you go the answer will be there. Having the guts to ask those questions and not fearing the answer is the beginning of the solution.

  18. Looks like a drug crisis more than a gun crisis 🙄

  19. Downfall of the capitalistic USA and still the biggest part of the US is shouting the US is the greatest country in the world 🤔🤔🤔 ….. it’s more looking like a 3world country

  20. Dr. Roger Crystal, who invented Narcan, should be awarded the Nobel & Albert Schweitzer prizes.
    His invention has saved many of the lives that Purdue Pharma has taken with Dr. Paul Janssen's invention of Fentanyl.

  21. The real life purge is here because humans equal shlt

  22. The easiest way is to give people free fentanyl so they can take themselves out 👍

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  28. Atheism is the reason for all this.

  29. I blame the Conservatives, who have chosen to force every public service to make a profit.

  30. I wish I could trust any of the people paid with my tax dollars to protect me.

  31. Alles sehr schön. Aber zuerst zusammen die Nummern 10 und 1. Eine emprutt.ONLINE Brünette und eine anderey Blondine. Es wäre unfair, wenn ich 4 wählen würde

  32. 😭To offer to mentor the druggies away from drugs I would have a resource gather and offer these lost people a position close as possible to their hobby where they'd have to consent to not expect pay to be garanteed♥️🙏☮️

  33. Alles sehr schön. Aber zuerst zusammen die Nummern 10 und 1. Eine emprutt.ONLINE Brünette und eine anderer Blondine. Es wäre unfair, wenn ich 4 wählen würde

  34. ❤Only for fans over 18 year⤵️ Alles sehr schön. Aber zuerst zusammen die Nummern 10 und 1. Eine emprutt.ONLINE Brünette und eine andere Blondine. Es wäre unfair, wenng ich 4 wählen würde

  35. Alles sehr schön. Aber zuerst zusammen die Nummern 10 und 1. Eine warmthh.Online Brünette und eine anderer Blondine. Es wäre unfair, wenn ich 4 wählen würde

  36. yuck america is one nasty country, how is this a country? your not even UNITED? what school or shopping malls next? honestly though down to america

  37. Waste money to bring a dope fein back from the dead….

  38. The American Dream, Overdosing on Fentanyl