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Paul Davis: FBI and Philadelphia Police take down a violent drug trafficking gang in Kensington Paul Davis October 30, 2025 October 29, 2025

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I know a retired Philadelphia detective who worked the streets of Kensington for a good part of his career.

The detective took me on several “ride-alongs” through Kensington’s open-air drug market and the sad and pathetic drug user’s street scene. Riding shotgun while driving through the neighborhood, I saw the stooped, staggering, and squatting drug addicts who inhabit the sidewalk amidst trash and garbage. I also saw drug dealers openly selling their deadly wares.

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