City's top cop predicts better crime fighting

... homicides rise last year. While the city was up 8 percent during last year, Washington, D.C. saw a 17 percent rise, Newark, N.J., was up 21 percent, but Philadelphia saw a sharp reduction in murders in 2013 -- down 26 percent. The final victim of ...

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