Philadelphia police grapple with 44 unarmed robberies in week ending Nov. 19
This is a 2.3 percent increase from the week before, which saw 43 incidents.
The City has seen 2,384 incidents so far in 2023.
The week ending June 18 was the worst in Philadelphia so far this year with 73 incidents.
Philadelphia is consistently ranked one of the least safe cities in the US. Gun violence has increased in recent years to near the highs of the early 1990s.
State Rep. Martina White, in an op-ed column for Broad+Liberty, claimed the rise in crime can be blamed on “the failed leadership of Democratic officials,” specifically “District Attorney Larry Krasner, who took over in 2018 and has seen a spike in homicides ever since.”
A report in ProPublica tracing the rise in crime across Philadelphia and the US, said the COVID-19 pandemic “had the effect of undoing or freezing countless public and social services that are believed to have a preventative effect on violence.”
| Type of Crime | Number of Incidents | Change from Week Before |
|---|---|---|
| Homicides | 2 | 100 |
| Rapes | 13 | 62.5 |
| Armed robberies | 39 | -13.3 |
| Unarmed robberies | 44 | 2.3 |
| Armed aggravated assaults | 54 | 22.7 |
| Unarmed aggravated assaults | 99 | 3.1 |
| Residential burglaries | 83 | 40.7 |
| Сommercial burglaries | 27 | 12.5 |
| Thefts of motor vehicle tags | 58 | 9.4 |
| Thefts from person | 7 | 0 |
| Thefts from auto | 245 | 15.6 |
| Thefts | 300 | 11.5 |
| Retail thefts | 408 | 10 |
| Stolen autos | 270 | -19.6 |