XPost: phl.politics, phl.media, pa.politics   
   From: artclemons@aolSPAM.com   
      
   Karen Y Byrd wrote:   
      
   > This is all why we should have paid Timoney anything he wanted to keep   
   > him here! Instead we have a bozo, yes-man, Street ass-kisser,   
   > no-ability- to-speak-coherently chucklehead like Johnson!   
      
      
   So far, Johnson's worst has been better than Rizzo's best.  Timoney   
   chose to leave, it's doubtful he was pushed out, but I remind you that   
   operation SunRise began under Timoney, it might have worked better if   
   the economy hadn't declined and if the ex-convicts now getting released   
   had learned job skills while in prison and had a reasonable shot at a   
   job.  In case folks have missed it, college grads are losing jobs   
   statistically in this country and in Philadelphia, so the prospects for   
   an ex-convict with no education are slim, they can't even get welfare.   
   Wonder just what skills they're using to survive in those situations   
   (actually I'm not folks).   
      
   The way to lower a crime rate isn't arrest, since usually those arrested   
   have already committed the same crime several times before, but rather   
   making it difficult to commit a crime.  Crime prevention can work, but   
   it can also be frustrating when it doesn't seem to.   
      
   Timoney was also one of the chaps who furthered Sylvester Johnson's   
   career, and it's amusing that he's being attacked as inarticulate,   
   considering several of the commishes before Timoney.   
      
   Let me also note that Katz apparently wants to return to a center city   
   oriented Philadelphia, and that's in the face of a worldwide decline in   
   business locating in cities.  In the western world, London is   
   apparently the only city with an increasing business base, all the rest   
   are declining in part because roads, transit and telecommunications   
   make location less necessary as a part of doing business.   In fact, I   
   soon expect to see Ivy League schools offering courses over the   
   internet as one sample of the changes occurring.  I'm also puzzled that   
   people don't seem to realize that what Katz is suggesting is a return   
   to the days when the police road around in cars trying to catch   
   criminals.  That doesn't lower crime rates in the long run.   
      
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