Philadelphia like most cities, is good every couple of blocks. North and west got bad pretty quickly. I had a coworker, who bought and sold drugs. He was openly

Philadelphia like most cities, is good every couple of blocks. North and west got bad pretty quickly. I had a coworker, who bought and sold drugs. He was openly doing this in the break room. He mentioned places where the cops just ignored drugs, and focused on violence. Knowing they couldn't curtail the drug use. I know on the weekend in Rittenhouse pot was sold in plain sight. Cops were on patrol but didn't do anything about it. The problem mentioned else where is gentrification. If you're kicking more and more people out. They live on the streets or abandoned houses. No jobs, then they just sell drugs. Temple area is a prime example. The school had like their own private force. Stay on campus fine, a couple blocks off nope. This was due to subsidized housing, where people were living at extremely low rates. The city was trying to fight this tooth and nail. Brewerytown was another example. Two property managers were buying up all the reality, and kicking people out. I didn't really want to step outside my apartment for fear of being harassed. The surrounding neighborhoods as well were bad. Just from a filth standpoint. I forget the name but it was West Philly a few miles from 64th street station. I was cleaning up the streets making up for a DUI. There was trash all over, needles, diapers, etc. Then there's the unspoken, or less spoken bit. The drug triangle between NYC, Baltimore, and Philly. Heroin came in on the docks in Philly from what I've gathered. Living in Wilmington I got to see first hand the turf war between NYC and PHIL. There were constant drive-bys and you'd hear on the police scanner. Either NYC or PHIL license plates fleeing the scenes. The genius kids in Wilmington, decided to stop acting as a trading point along I95. And instead start making and selling their own stuff. That went over well. So they're trying, but what's the solution when there are no real jobs to be had. People are being kicked out from their homes?