It's not the cavalry, but two hundred more officers are coming to the nine most violent police districts in Philadelphia. Its part of Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey's crime fighting strategy announced Wednesday.
Some aggressive goals will make it easy to assess the plan's effectiveness.
Commissioner Charles Ramsey wants to cut all violent crime by 20% this year, and reduce the number of homicides by 25%, or about 100 fewer murders also this year:
"Now people look at you and say your nuts for saying it. I mean why do we have to accept this level of violence and say it's OK. And if we don't hit that number it ain't my fault. I am going to do everything I possibly can. But other people have to do their part. Other people have to come forward with information on who these thugs are, they know who they are. Probably in 85 to 90 percent of these cases somebody knows who did the murder, but they don't come forward. So everybody has to play their role. But that's our target, that's our goal."
And there's plenty of community outreach in the plan to try to get everybody on board.
