PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Jim Kenney and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw tried to assure the public they're doing everything they can to stop the bloodshed in the city."It’s no secret that we’re experiencing one of the worst periods of violent crime in our city’s history," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.A city in crisis trying to deal with an unprecedented level of gun violence.
The challenges plaguing the city continue to stack with one of them the type of guns being used."We are seeing a stark contrast in just the number of privately made firearms or ghost guns that were seeing compared to previous years," Outlaw explained.Outlaw added that many of the gun arrests they make are of repeat offenders with open gun cases.