Members of a shaken Philadelphia community met with the police commissioner and district attorney Wednesday night to share their fears and to demand action in the wake of Saturday night's mass shooting.
"I want to know what you're doing about these people committing complete lawlessness every other day," said one audience member.
"Officers saying their hands are tied and they can't do this or do that, we are making it very clear my direction has been: your job is to not only be present, enforce the laws and to get ahead of something before it happens," explained Outlaw.The department says it is reassessing everything that happened over the weekend and any mistakes made will be corrected.
"We had a police officer run to the gunfire, engage with the suspect --an active shooter -- and shot the individual in the hand. If that officer didn't do that, who knows how many more dead bodies we would have saw," Dales said. "What will we do differently? That was somewhat answered, not always or directly," explained one Queen Village resident."I think everybody being here from this neighborhood from Queen Village spoke to the commissioner and the DA and to the mayor wherever he is... We're all people who live in the city and we all just want to get along," said another resident who's lived in Queen Village for more than 30 years.