A violence summit was planned to be held at St. Joseph’s University months before the recent looting this past week, but those crimes were certainly a major point of discussion.
Among the speakers were District Attorney Larry Krasner and Acting Police Commissioner John Stanford. Both talked about the need for more witnesses to speak up to help solve more crimes.
"Everyone doesn’t need to be in jail, but there are some folks who need to be, especially when you talk about some of the violent crimes that we see or many of the crimes that have an impact on the community, long term," Acting Police Commissioner Stanford explained.
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