Michael Nutter: “Neither our police officers nor our citizens, and especially our children, should be confronted with these weapons on…”

What I can stand here and tell you is that throwing all of these grant programs away, and the infrastructure and partnerships developed around them, is going to make things worse, not better.

Please do not take the same steps with emergency preparedness funding as lives are at stake in this one.

People die. That is what happens.

Mayor Nutter gave a persuasive testimony about the ill effects of the Department's decision to consolidate vital independent grants.