Daily News | For Philly voters, crime was a big reason behind their choices for mayor
, down 14% from the same day in 2021. In 2022, 516 people were killed, in 2021 it was 562, and in 2020 it was 499.“I don’t know how anybody is going to fix it,” said Pamela West, 64, who cast her ballot for Gym at Global Leadership Academy Southwest in West Philadelphia.As he walked into his Frankford polling place, Raheem, who was formerly incarcerated, said the next mayor must make crime the top priority.
Ernestine Banas, 54, who has a background in social work, also voted for Gym. She liked the candidate’s position that social workers, not police, should respond to people who are suffering mental-health emergencies. The East Torresdale retirees, both 70, voted with crime at the top of their minds, and both chose for Domb for mayor, casting their ballots at the Torresdale Boys Club.“These kids who don’t have anything to do are now the kids who are shooting everybody,” said Fran Chambers, a retired drug-and-alcohol counselor who wants more money allocated to city-sponsored drug rehabilitation.
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