The city of Philadelphia was finally going to root out the drug trade that has long monopolized the streets of Kensington. Around the neighborhood, where scores of people languish in the shadows of the elevated train, injecting, smoking and nodding in and out of consciousness, the expectations were far more tempered.
No one except the drug dealers said that they were happy with how things were in Kensington, one of the most sprawling areas of open drug use and dealing on the East Coast. And almost no one expected things to really change.
Mayor Cherelle Parker insists that this time is different. She campaigned on restoring lawfulness, highlighting the plan to eliminate Kensington as the narcotics destination of Philadelphia.
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