Every damn day. Every damn day there is some piece of news out of the Temple University area about crime. Violent and petty crime. Last night a Temple University Police officer was murdered. By an 18 year old out of an expensive area in Buckingham, Bucks County and yes I looked up where the kid lives. Given his photos on Instagram about his love of his Ducati motorcycle someone’s parents may have more money than sense.
The shooter as per media reports is 18 year old Miles Pfeffer of Quarry Road in Bucks County. He lives with some family on “Boxley Farm” in Buckingham. Quite the piece of real estate.
So since media reports say Miles Pfeffer just turned 18 so is he a senior in high school and what would a kid from a place like that be doing in North Philadelphia car jacking someone at gunpoint?
https://6abc.com/temple-police-officer-shot-university-injured-philly-shooting/12839276/
https://nbcphiladelphia.app.link/02sHiDzzyxb
And what is his family all about that they didn’t realize what their kid was up to? Didn’t they look at his social media? Everyone else has been looking at his Instagram for example. Trying to be a gangsta, and then you wonder were the parents parenting at all?
And let’s talk Temple University. If you know anyone who works there or if you were one of the thousands of parents in the region with kids there you know every day there’s something on the news and it’s never positive in relation to Temple University and North Philadelphia. It’s 24/7/365 crime. The university president Dr. Jason Wingard and his public safety blondie Jennifer Griffin seem to schmooze and massage press releases, etc., but what are they actually doing ? I won’t bother with wondering the same with the City of Philadelphia because it’s just Crimeadelphia Filthadelphia 24/7/365.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Police documents provide more details Christopher Fitzgerald’s killing
Just a few short years ago, Miles Pfeffer posed for photos on Instagram with largemouth bass and other fish he’d caught. He was 15, but looked young enough to be in middle school.
Then it was dirt bikes, then a Ducati, and by last November, he was sitting atop a basketball hoop, fanning out $20 bills. Another Instagram photo later that month showed a male with a concealed face, displaying money in a similar fashion — but with what appeared to be a Ruger semiautomatic pistol tucked into his waistband. “Work smart not hard make stupid decisions face stupid consequences,” Pfeffer wrote.
The Temple University Police Officer who was shot was 31 years old. A family man. A son of parents in law enforcement according to other things I have read. He is from a legacy of protect and serve. Officer Christopher Fitzgerald. Say his name. He was shot in the head so there is no doubt as to the intent of the shooter is there? People love to talk about the bad people in law enforcement all over this country and then you look at what happens to the people who are good law-enforcement, and are they spoken of enough?
And now the Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that this kid tried to rob the officer of his gun while on the ground, shot. The sheer inhumanity blows my mind.
Temple University has reportedly underreported crime. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on that in November, 2022. So did other media outlets:
When professor Jeffrey Doshna read Temple University’s latest crime report, he was immediately struck by a seeming omission.
The murder of Samuel Collington last November, less than two blocks from a campus building, wasn’t reflected in the statistics. In fact, the university reported zero murders either on or off its main North Philadelphia campus for 2021, just as it has for every past year on record.
By federal law, Temple didn’t leave anything out. Universities are required to report only crimes that occur directly on campus, on public property adjacent to campus, or at off-campus affiliated university buildings. The result is that killings that took place last year in what many consider Temple’s neighborhood — on the 1700 block of North 16th Street, the 1700 block of Cecil B. Moore Avenue, or the 2200 block of North Park Avenue, where Collington died — are unaccounted for in Temple’s annual crime report.
~ Philadelphia Inquirer 11/20/22
Temple University is a terrific school but they can’t keep their students, staff, or police force safe, can they? That has to change. It is incumbent upon the board of trustees of Temple University to act. This is the current board of trustees:
2022-2023
Barry C. Arkles, Ph.D., ’70 College of Science & Technology, 76′ College of Science & Technology, Ph.D.
RetiredLeonard Barrack, Esq., ’65 Fox School of Business, ’68 Beasley School of Law
Barrack, Rodos & BacineMichael E. Breeze, ’96 Fox School of Business & Management
New Direction CapitalPatrick M. Browne, Esq., (G)* , ’93 Beasley School of Law
Pennsylvania State SenatorStephen G. Charles, ’80 School of Media & Communication
RetiredJoseph F. Coradino, ’74 College of Liberal Arts
PREIT Services, LLCPaul G. Curcillo, II, M.D., ’84 College of Science & Technology
Fox Chase Cancer CenterNelson A. Diaz, Esq., ’72 Beasley School of Law, ’90 Honorary Degree
Dilworth Paxson LLPPatrick J. Eiding (G)*
President of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIOJudith A. Felgoise, ’87 College of Education
The Abramson Family FoundationDeborah M. Fretz (H)*, ’77 Fox School of Business & Management
RetiredLewis F. Gould, Jr., Esq., (S)*, ’62 School of Pharmacy
Duane Morris, LLPLon R. Greenberg
RetiredTamron Hall, ’92 School of Media & Communication
Broadcast Journalist, Television Talk Show HostSandra Harmon-Weiss, M.D., ’71 College of Liberal Arts, ’74 Lewis Katz School of Medicine
RetiredKellyn Hodges., D.M.D. (G)*, ’92 Kornberg School of Dentistry,
’94 Kornberg School of Dentistry (Masters)
Kellyn Hodges OrthodonticsMarina Kats, Esq., ’85 Fox School of Business & Management, ’88 Beasley School of Law,
’95 Beasley School of Law (Masters)
Kats, Jamison & AssociatesDrew A. Katz
Interstate Outdoor AdvertisingPatrick V. Larkin, Esq., (S)*, ’74 Fox School of Business, ’82 Beasley School of Law
AJG Risk Management ServicesMarguerite Lenfest
RetiredSolomon C. Luo, M.D.
Progressive Vision & Surgical InstituteJoseph W. Marshall, III, Esq., (S)*, ’75 College of Liberal Arts, ’79 Beasley School of Law
Stevens & Lee/Griffin Holdings GroupAnthony J. McIntyre, ’80 Fox School of Business
AJG Risk Management ServicesChristopher W. McNichol (H)*
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.J. William Mills, III
RetiredMitchell L. Morgan, Esq., Chair, ’76 Fox School of Business, ’80 Beasley School of Law
Morgan PropertiesLeon O. Moulder, Jr., ’80 School of Pharmacy
RetiredBret S. Perkins (H)*., ’91 Fox School of Business
Comcast CorporationMichael H. Reed, Esq., ’69 College of Liberal Arts
Troutman Pepper, LLPPhillip C. Richards, ’62 Fox School of Business, ’16 Honorary Degree
North Star Resource GroupCharles E. Ryan, (H)*
Liberty Energy Trust, Liberty Infrastructure TrustJane Scaccetti, ’77 Fox School of Business
Drucker & ScaccettiJohn F. Street, Esq., (G)*
Former Mayor of PhiladelphiaChristine M. Tartaglione, (S)*
Pennsylvania State SenatorHonorary Life Trustees
Alan M. Cohen
Peter D. DePaul
Lacy H. Hunt
Sidney Kimmel
Theodore A. McKee
Patrick J. O’Connor
Daniel H. Polett
Ex-Officio Trustees
The Honorable Josh Shapiro, Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The Honorable James F. Kenney, Mayor, City of Philadelphia
The Honorable Eric Hagarty, Acting Secretary of Education, Pennsylvania Department of Education
Non-Voting Representatives
President, Faculty Senate (Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, 2022-2023)
President, Temple Student Government (Gianni Quattrocchi, 2022-2023)
Note: *Commonwealth Trustees indicated by appointing agency: (G) – Governor, (S) – Senate President Pro Tempore, (H) – Speaker of the House of Representatives
Revised:
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Miles Pfeffer, 18, will be charged with the killing of Temple police officer Christopher Fitzgerald.
In the wake of this horrific tragedy and event, there are many conversations which need to be had. But the first one is keeping kids at Temple, employees at Temple including the police force, and the people around Temple University safe. That means that Temple and the City of Philadelphia need to get off their asses.
My final comment is if you care about the students at Temple being safe, make sure you follow Keep Us Safe @ Temple U . These kids are being quite brave to do this. I am sure Temple University officials wished they did not exist. They tell the truth as opposed to those in charge. Linktree here for Keep Us Safe .
