Camden, a city near Philadelphia, has been ranked for the second consecutive year as the most dangerous city in America.
I saw this story mentioned several places over the weekend, but a radio report on it on ABC mentioned that the homicide rate in Camden is higher than that for our troops on active duty. The reporter said that the death rate for active duty personnel was something like 43 per 100,000. A chart that you can find by scrolling down here shows that the murder rate in Camden has been steadily climbing between 1999 and 2003, with the last available figure at 51.3 murders per 100,000.
Mother Sheehan, the people of Camden need you! It's time for us to pull out of this violent hellhole before one more mother's son is senselessly killed.
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