Philadelphia, known as the City of Brotherly Love, has had 96 homicides so far this year, falling one murder short of the notoriously violent Chicago three months into 2022.
As of Monday, there had been 96 homicide victims in Philadelphia in 2022.
From Jan. 1 through March 7, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. local time, Chicago police recorded 372 shooting incidents that impacted 432 victims, the spokesperson said by email. The Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed Thomas Siderio, 12, will be suspended for 30 days with the intent to dismiss, Commissioner Outlaw announced. Police say Siderio fired a single shot into an unmarked police vehicle prior to the shooting.
Over the weekend, three young men, ranging in age from 18 to 20, were all found shot to death either inside or lying beside a stolen vehicle Saturday evening in Philadelphia's West Oak Lane neighborhood. "You’re always going to have dysfunctionality when the police and the DA are not able to work independently of one another but cooperatively," Sullivan said. "When it comes to violent crime, they need to be on the same page."