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temple university and the city of philadelphia can’t even keep temple police officers safe.

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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?

PhillyBurbs.com : Temple University police officer shot and killed near campus; Bucks County man taken into custody
From wire and staff reports

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/doylestown/sections/police-and-fire/articles/buckingham-suspect-arrested-in-connection-with-slaying-of-temple-university-police-officer

https://6abc.com/temple-police-officer-shot-university-injured-philly-shooting/12839276/

https://www.fox29.com/news/arrest-made-in-bucks-county-in-connection-with-temple-officers-death-sources-say

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/philadelphia/news/miles-pfeffer-chris-fitzgerald-man-arrested-fatally-shooting-temple-police-officer/

https://nbcphiladelphia.app.link/02sHiDzzyxb

What we know about the Temple police officer fatally shot in North Philadelphia

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.
Retired

Leonard Barrack, Esq., ’65 Fox School of Business, ’68 Beasley School of Law
Barrack, Rodos & Bacine

Michael E. Breeze, ’96 Fox School of Business & Management
New Direction Capital

Patrick M. Browne, Esq., (G)* , ’93 Beasley School of Law
Pennsylvania State Senator

Stephen G. Charles, ’80 School of Media & Communication
Retired

Joseph F. Coradino, ’74 College of Liberal Arts
PREIT Services, LLC

Paul G. Curcillo, II, M.D., ’84 College of Science & Technology
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Nelson A. Diaz, Esq., ’72 Beasley School of Law, ’90 Honorary Degree
Dilworth Paxson LLP

Patrick J. Eiding (G)*
President of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO

Judith A. Felgoise, ’87 College of Education
The Abramson Family Foundation

Deborah M. Fretz (H)*, ’77 Fox School of Business & Management
Retired

Lewis F. Gould, Jr., Esq., (S)*, ’62 School of Pharmacy
Duane Morris, LLP

Lon R. Greenberg
Retired

Tamron Hall, ’92 School of Media & Communication
Broadcast Journalist, Television Talk Show Host

Sandra Harmon-Weiss, M.D., ’71 College of Liberal Arts, ’74 Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Retired

Kellyn Hodges., D.M.D. (G)*, ’92 Kornberg School of Dentistry,
’94 Kornberg School of Dentistry (Masters)
Kellyn Hodges Orthodontics

Marina Kats, Esq., ’85 Fox School of Business & Management, ’88 Beasley School of Law,
’95 Beasley School of Law (Masters)
Kats, Jamison & Associates

Drew A. Katz
Interstate Outdoor Advertising

Patrick V. Larkin, Esq., (S)*, ’74 Fox School of Business, ’82 Beasley School of Law
AJG Risk Management Services

Marguerite Lenfest 
Retired

Solomon C. Luo, M.D.
Progressive Vision & Surgical Institute

Joseph W. Marshall, III, Esq., (S)*, ’75 College of Liberal Arts, ’79 Beasley School of Law
Stevens & Lee/Griffin Holdings Group

Anthony J. McIntyre, ’80 Fox School of Business
AJG Risk Management Services

Christopher W. McNichol (H)*
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

J. William Mills, III
Retired

Mitchell L. Morgan, Esq., Chair, ’76 Fox School of Business, ’80 Beasley School of Law
Morgan Properties

Leon O. Moulder, Jr., ’80 School of Pharmacy
Retired

Bret S. Perkins (H)*., ’91 Fox School of Business
Comcast Corporation

Michael H. Reed, Esq., ’69 College of Liberal Arts
Troutman Pepper, LLP

Phillip C. Richards, ’62 Fox School of Business, ’16 Honorary Degree
North Star Resource Group

Charles E. Ryan, (H)*
Liberty Energy Trust, Liberty Infrastructure Trust

Jane Scaccetti, ’77 Fox School of Business
Drucker & Scaccetti

John F. Street, Esq., (G)*
Former Mayor of Philadelphia

Christine M. Tartaglione, (S)* 
Pennsylvania State Senator

Honorary 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

18-year-old will be charged with murder of Temple police officer; family and colleagues remember Christopher Fitzgerald

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 .

on international women’s day remember tatiana poladko and her family and the women of ukraine

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Video courtesy of Atnreakn Alleyne Facebook Page- Refugee area outside Ukraine

Here I was today, wondering what I would write about on International Women’s Day. Some of the women around here I find lacking, seriously lacking. They say they are all about freedom, yet they are Stepford Wives for Totalitarianism. They are LGBTQIA+ phobic in general, racist, suspicious and hyper-critical of anyone who does not fit into their narrow world view. They chase phantom CRT (still not being taught in our public schools), still going on about masks as masking lifts, and are developing book burning/banning lists.

These “Wifies” are all led around by the nose via social media and fake news being directed at them and they THINK they are helping their communities/schools, only they are pawns in a nationwide political game attached to 1/6/21 and Trumpublican politics. And they don’t even get they are being used. They call themselves conservatives, yet actual conservatives abhor and avoid them so what dies that say?

And then I started thinking and wondering if these not so slick chicks could survive in the Ukraine now. Short answer: NO. Real totalitarianism live and up front in the form of Putin’s Russian terroristic troops? Oh hell to the no. They wouldn’t be able to touch up their gel nail wraps or whatever. Besides they are blamers, not doers.

Then an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer Stopped. Me. Cold.

Walking to Poland: A Philly-area family escapes a Ukraine under fire
The couple never imagined that when they decided to spend a couple years in her homeland, they would be undertaking a dangerous, frozen trek to Poland.

by Jeff Gammage
Published Mar 8, 2022

Each day the war grew closer and more ferocious, said Tatiana Poladko, a local woman living in Ukraine. And on Friday she set out with her husband, their three small children, and her elderly father to seek safety in Poland.

A stranger with a car offered to drive them most of the way. Then they started to walk.

The kids, Zoryana, 7, Nazariy, 3, and Taras, 2, kept their winter hats pulled low against the cold. Her father, 81, struggled to keep up, and at one point fell down.

They crossed the border on foot….“So many people, babies, children, elderly, everyone,” Poladko said. “Ukrainian people with just a suitcase or two who never thought they’d be in such a predicament.”

Nor did she.

Poladko and her husband — Wilmington residents who run a Delaware-based college-access program — never imagined that when they decided to spend a couple of years in her homeland, they would be undertaking a dangerous, frozen trek to the Polish border as Russia shelled Ukraine.

They only wanted their kids to experience their Ukrainian heritage, to see the country and learn the language.

Now, as war rages, Poladko, a Ukrainian national, can’t return to the United States because of federal immigration laws. And her husband and children, all U.S. citizens, won’t leave without her.

They plan to apply for emergency visas that could permit Poladko and her father to enter the United States, but it’s uncertain if those will be approved….In Przemysl, Poladko and her family were able to board a train that was taking refugees to Warsaw.

They found a hotel. Now they’re trying to figure out where to go and what to do.

~philadelphia inquirer 3/8/22

This article. It moved me. I was in tears by the end of it. A young family from Wilmington, DE. Trapped in a war zone. Tatiana Poladko had been here legally for years studying and making a difference. I point out the legally part, lest the Stepford Wives for Totalitarianism start building her a wall. Obviously she had put down roots, fallen in love, started a family. She and her husband Atnreakn Alleyne started a wonderful non-profit called TeenSHARP which helps Black and Latino kids get to college and succeed and thrive. They have two sites (New Jersey and Delaware) serving many areas and communities in those states, as well as Philadelphia.

Refugees arrive in Poland from Ukraine
Photos courtesy of Atnreakn Alleyne’s Facebook Page








So how do we get this young family home, safe and sound? Tweet, email, phone, Facebook your elected official of choice. The areas you should contact people would include the greater Philadelphia region, New Jersey and Delaware. Also contact the White House. Get more reporters to pick up their story.

Do I know these people? No, but they are the kind of people you want to know. And Tatiana’s poor father is the age of many of our parents, and his home area is being devastated by war as Putin and his Russian stormtroopers imitate Hitler and ever evil dictator who has preceded Putin inside and outside of Russia. He already lost his wife, let him live out his days with his daughter, son-in-law, and beloved grandchildren here.

Video from fighting in Ukraine, circulating Facebook

What is happening to Ukraine made me think of a growing up friend whose mother is Ukrainian. I remember my mother telling me the stories of my friend’s grandmother carrying her mother as a baby out of Ukraine to escape Russians, Germans, and who knows who else. The grandmother fled with a baby in her arms taking whatever work she could get until she could safely get her daughter to the United States. From there, they became citizens, and had a lovely life.

This Ukrainian grandmother, my friend’s Baba, still spoke very little English even when we were teenagers. I thought she was warm and lovely. Her bedroom suite was on the first floor of their house behind their kitchen. I seem to remember her cooking Ukrainian dishes, and we use to see Baba at our church (Catholic.) I remember the beautiful Ukrainian Easter eggs in the house.

I can’t help but wonder what my friend’s grandmother would think of what is happening to her birthland today? I know what friends of my mother’s who ran from the Nazis and hid from the Russians feel because they lived this in World War II. I know what my friend who is Romanian by birth feels, and three women I hold dear who emigrated to the U.S. from Poland and remember as Europeans what Ukrainians have been through.

So today on International Women’s Day 2022, let’s celebrate Tatiana Poladko and the women of the Ukraine.

And please, contact your elected official of choice and the White House if the spirit moves you to ask that Tatiana Poladko and her husband Atnreakn Alleyne, her elderly dad, and their 3 small children receive safe passage back to Wilmington, DE. Let not another family be separated. As Americans, we should do better.

#StandWithUkraine

#InternationalWomensDay

#TatianaAndAtnreakn

#PuckFutin

cold-calling kids

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The telephone rang a few minutes ago. The caller ID said “College Admissions”.

Here we go again, I thought.

Our son is a junior in high school and in addition to the expected inundation of college literature via US Mail that makes election season junk mail look like nothing, even though we requested no college cold calls, we are getting them anyway. And then there are the hundreds of email solicitations.

So yes, back to what I am not comfortable with: these colleges and universities are cold calling minors.

They come in at odd times, like just now. Like other types of cold calls they are not particularly welcome and this latest invasion is enough for us to check out https://www.nomorobo.com/ as suggested by friends.

Lately we have had India generated robo-calls from McAfee, predatory credit card companies calling about who knows what services  (they ask for people that don’t live here and never have- they must have a script that tells them to ask for random first names), bogus breast cancer charities, bogus veterans’ charities and my new favorite to tell me I am pre-approved for a “MedAlert” or medical alert device. The MedAlert people have called so often I filed a complaint with the FTC (Federal Trade Commission.)

But colleges and universities cold calling is a brave, new, and somewhat unwelcome telemarketing world for me. Most schools have current students who call. Take Temple University for example. They called a couple of weeks ago. The student sounded bored out of his tree, could NOT pronounce even our son’s first name, and mumbled to the point he was unitellagable.  So much for good first impressions, right?

But today, Marquette University in Wisconsin took it to a whole new level I take issue with. They are paying for a professional telemarketing firm (they called themselves a professional research firm but it is the same thing) to cold call prospective students.

Yes, that’s right, a telemarketing firm calling on behalf of Marquette University wanting to speak to our child. We as parents have not given them permission to call, the child they are calling doesn’t want to talk to them. And I am sorry, even if Marquette was on any list they wouldn’t be now because of this.

And as a marketing idea, come on do these schools even know teenagers today? They communicate primarily via text and social media, so are they trying to call kids via Snap Chat as well?  Kids today barely speak on the phone with family members, so why on earth do these schools think they are going to speak to their cold-callers?

I might get these calls occurring after a kid takes a campus tour, but as a preemptive strike?  Not so much.

As a trend this is bothersome and borderline creepy.  Every once in a while I ask these callers for their home phone numbers so I can return the favor and bother them.

Sign me tired of all unwanted solicitation calls.