Expand the Police Force

Philadelphia is in a crisis of gun violence, writes Jabari Jones, president of the West Philadelphia Corridor Collaborative and a board member of A Greater Philadelphia. While he supports strategies that focus on investing in neighborhoods and preventing crime, he writes in the April 21 Inquirer that the crisis requires an immediate investment to expand the size of the police force.

“We can’t wait for prevention efforts to take effect,” Jones writes. “We need a larger and stronger police force now.”

Kris Henderson, executive director of Amistad Law Project, wrote a dissenting viewpoint that was published alongside the piece by Jones.