The Anatomy of a Blueprint for A Safer Philadelphia Crime Summit

Saturday, September 30, 2023, Philadelphia City Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. and his staff pulled off meaningful, thought-out, educational, and very positive gathering on the campus of Saint Joseph's University

- Thera Martin

It was a Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia Crime Summit, and almost everybody who needed to be in the room was there. The only ones missing were the people who are currently committing the crimes in our beloved city. I refer to them as the troublemakers.

The planning for this summit started nearly six months ago. The goal at the end of the day was to come out of the Summit with solutions that could help change the tide of violence in Philadelphia. The findings and solutions, if you will, are being combined in a document being prepared by students and professors at Saint Joseph's University--and that report will then be made available to Philadelphia's 100th Mayor and to the newly elected officials coming into Philadelphia government as of January 2, 2024, once being sworn in.

I commend Councilman Jones for making certain that young people were in the room on the day of the summit. I also commend Councilman Jones for making sure that ex-offenders were in the room to share how they have turned their lives around and how they work with ung people now to try and get them on a positive path.