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Shootings and Crime Continue Into 2022 With A Vengeance

Written by Alex Lloyd Gross, January 1, 2022

by Alex Lloyd Gross Happy New Year.  That greeting is usually followed by best wishes for a safe and healthy  new year.  Last year, Philadelphia clocked in  with 562 murders, which was unprecedented.  The homicide rate had not reached the 500 number since 1990.  Those that thought  just because a page flips on a calendar,…