Dispatching militarized forces to Philadelphia would represent a significant shift in how the city enforces drug laws and violence.
The National Guard arrives at Philadelphia City Hall amid civil unrest sparked by the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. in this October 2020 file photograph. Democratic nominee for mayor Cherelle Parker has said the Guard will be "part of the solution" in Kensington, where an open-air drug market has persisted for years., saying Monday that the Guard “will be a part of the solution” in the neighborhood long plagued by the opioid crisis and violence it fuels.
“Will I call on them to help us, for example, shut down the open-air drug market in Kensington that’s being allowed to prevail? They will be a part of the solution,” Parker said.
Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, would need to authorize any mobilization of the National Guard. An administration spokesperson said Shapiro and Parker have broadly discussed partnering to address public safety in Philadelphia but are continuing to discuss specific strategies. Philadelphia residents reject using war-on-drugs-era policies to treat the opioid crisis, according to pollafter the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, which led to several days of intense civil unrest. Kenney said at the time that Philadelphia was “in the middle of one of the biggest crises in the city’s history.”On Monday, Parker said it’s one of her key priorities to address the crisis in Kensington, which has long been the epicenter of the city’s opioid crisis.
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