6/23/22

Philadelphia had 562 homicides in 2021. Since the woman was only beaten and set on fire, she won't go into this year's statistic.

Fred Reed in shithole Mexico, reader Biff in shithole Thailand and me in shithole Vietnam are missing out on so much. Yes, there's a lot of violence near the US border, among drug gangs fighting over the humongous US drug market, but most of Mexico is safer than Philly, Chicago, Saint Louis or New Orleans, etc., and Mexico City is much more pleasant and cultured than Washington. As a journalist in DC, Reed often rode with cops through the night, so he saw horrors like the above all the time.