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Charles Ramsey, the police commissioner, has stated his goal to reduce the number of homicides by 100 per year.〔(Ramsey’s goal: 100 fewer murders a year )〕 The legal entities responsible for maintaining law and order are: *The Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) is the police department. *The Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (1st Judicial Circuit) is the state trial court. *The Philadelphia District Attorney is the district attorney. The Defender Association of Philadelphia is the government-funded independent public defender office. == Notable cases and incidents == * Philadelphia Poison Ring (1938) - At least 70 people poisoned with arsenic, several by their wives. * Marie Noe (1949–1968) - Murdered eight of her children. * Boy in the Box (1957) - Unidentified five-year-old boy found dead in a cardboard box. * Dolores Della Penna – 1972 abduction and dismemberment of Tacony teenager remains unsolved. * Ira Einhorn, "The Unicorn Killer" (1977) - Popular figure killed his girlfriend and hid her body in his closet. * Mumia Abu-Jamal (1981) - Convicted for the murder of PPD officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. * MOVE (1978,1985) - Clashed with the PPD. * Frankford Slasher (1985–1990) - Thought to have killed several women. * Gary M. Heidnik (1986–1987) - Kidnapped, imprisoned, raped, and tortured six women, two of whom he murdered. * Harrison Graham (1986–1987) - Killed seven women, deemed incompetent to be executed. * Raymond Carter (convict) (1988) - Convicted of killing Robert "Puppet" Harris; verdict overturned in 1996 due to likelihood of false testimony. * 39th District corruption scandal (1990s) - Led to overturn of 160-300 cases and release of 100 persons. * Lex Street Massacre (Dec. 28th, 2000)- 7 people were murdered in a crack house.〔http://www.southphillyreview.com/news/lifestyles/79678342.html〕 * Kidnapping and murder of Iriana DeJesus (2000) - Alexis Flores, suspect of the case, was added to FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 2007. *Officer Thomas Bray's possible murder (November 13, 2001) - Bray died in a suspicious on-duty scuba diving incident the day after he testified against Sergeant Shawn Dougherty at a disciplinary hearing. Bray's estate and mother, Genevieve, sued the city and federal government in federal court over Bray's death, settling for an amount that could not be determined from a summary Internet search. * City Hall corruption scandal (2003-5) - mayor's office bugged by FBI, several convictions resulting.〔(U.S. Bug in Mayor's Office Roils Philadelphia Race )〕 * Kensington Strangler (late 2010-early 2011). * Fairmount Park Rapist. (2003–2007) Not caught. *Philadelphia basement kidnapping, October 2011, an ongoing investigation into alleged kidnapping of four mentally disabled adults, who were held in a Northeast Philadelphia basement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crime in Philadelphia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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