The upcoming Philadelphia Police Academy graduates are set to head to Kensington to aid with the city's second phase in its plan to clean up the troubling neighborhood.
Philly leaders are moving forward to phase two, the enforcement phase, in their efforts to clean up Kensington.The promises and plans from city hall months ago are being put into practice in Kensington, police leaders announced Monday. More cops, more enforcement and less of what Kensington has long become known for, a place where drugs flow and crimes follow.
"We will be moving 75 men and women from the Philadelphia police academy who will graduate next week will move into the Kensington pocket where we will start to address those drug corners and that drug activity that is causing much of the violence that we see here," Bethel continued.The commissioner's four years as chief of Philadelphia public school safety showed him how tough kids have it in the 14 schools within the Kensington section.
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