Cooper: Feel-Good Social Spending on Anti-Gun and Anti-Violence Programs is the New Hustle

In a recent mayoral debate at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Helen Gym, who had been an outspoken opponent of increasing the city’s policing budget in 2020, called gun violence the “single greatest threat to everything that we have ever hoped for in this city.” Gun violence is ravaging Philadelphia, just as it is Rochester, … Read more