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The Next Mayor | Issues Forums | Crime


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The Next Mayor | Issues Forums | Crime

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The Next Mayor project is an innovative, two-year multimedia partnership to focus on the issues - not just the personalities - leading to the 2007 Philadelphia mayor's race. It was created by the Daily News, WHYY and the Committee of Seventy. We took what we what we learned from our travels around the region and identified 16 different issues that are important to the people of Greater Philadelphia. Tune in as we convene panels of experts to talk about those issues. They'll let us know how other cities are tackling those same problems and they'll make suggestions to the next mayor. Crime dominated the debate during the mayoral primary because of the sheer number of homicides that have been committed over the past several years. We talked to three criminologists (Professors Larry Sherman, University of Pennsylvania; Phil Harris, Temple University; Maria Kefalas, St. Joseph's University) who have spent their careers studying the causes and effects of crime as well as preventive measures that have been used to mitigate it. A neighborhood activist (Dorothy Johnson-Speight, Mothers in Charge) with a very personal connection to the murder rate also joins the discussion to offer suggestions from the perspective of someone who sees the devastation wrought by murder almost every day.

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