Open War on Philly Cops

There's nothing more reprehensible than shooting a cop doing his job. That basic American tenet has been thrown by the wayside in Philadelphia:

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two Philadelphia police officers were shot Tuesday evening while trying to serve a warrant, the latest in a spate of shootings at police that has left one city officer dead this year.

No arrests were immediately made in Tuesday's shootings in northeast Philadelphia. Both officers were taken to hospitals, one with a gunshot wound to the hip and the other to the leg. Their names were not being released.

Both plainclothes officers, who worked in the narcotics division, were reported to be in stable condition.

This is now a common occurrence in the City of Brotherly love. Officer Chuck Cassidy was laid to rest last week after trying to break up a robbery and he was shot in cold blood.

This is the city where Mumia Abu Jamal shot officer Danny Faulkner more than a quarter century ago and the left has exulted him as some type of hero instead of the scumbag cop killer he really is. The French named a street in Jamal's honor for crying out loud!

The liberal exultation of Jamal has led to what we are seeing now in Philly; the police are not only hated but hunted. The rule of law is breaking down and the regime of John Street and Chief of Police Sylvester Johnson have done nothing with the exception of Johnson wringing his hands over a "stop and frisk" proposal recently debated. When the police chief won't protect his officers, all law is gone.

This is what we get from 30-years of democrat rule in Philly...you reap what you sow I guess. Philly is lost because of ineffective leadership.

Of course, it's not just Philly, it's a national trend:

"Something has transformed the mentality of these inner-city kids that killing a police officer is just the price to be paid for doing business of dealing drugs or robbing a store," said Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation in Washington.

"We're seeing more and more of this kind of thing," said Williams, a former police director in Newark, N.J. "They're deliberately shooting for the head - they know the police wear body armor."

This is a complete societal breakdown in the inner city and will lead to good cops bolting for less stressful jobs or at least for cities where they can trust the Police Chief to have their back.

Yet, it is particularly bad in Philly and morale will plummet. Thank the good Lord that Johnson is on his way out. Perhaps Michael nutter will consider his first moves include bringing back former philly Chief and current miami Police Chief John Timoney.