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Jan 24, 2025 | thetrace.org | Justin Agrelo |Joy Resmovits

The Trace For more than a decade, city leaders helped to prevent Chicago drill rapper Chief Keef from performing in his hometown. In 2015, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel felt so strongly that Keef was an “unacceptable role model” whose music “promotes violence” that he wouldn’t even let him perform via hologram. Emanuel’s affront echoed sentiments from critics — then and now — who argue that drill rap glorifies gun violence and criminality.

Jan 17, 2025 | thetrace.org | Mensah M. Dean |Joy Resmovits |Afea Tucker

The Trace Just before 9:30 p.m. on December 30, Philadelphia City Councilmember Jim Harrity was home watching TV when he heard a series of rapid bangs. As a longtime resident of the city’s Kensington neighborhood, which is notorious for street-corner drug dealing and its accompanying violence, he suspected it was gunfire. Harrity looked out the window and saw a young man crumpled on the ground, so he jumped and yelled to his wife upstairs, telling her to get down and call the police.

Jan 3, 2025 | thetrace.org | Joy Resmovits

The Trace Throughout 2024, I’ve felt good about the steady decline of shootings and firearm related fatalities in our city. But the violent weekend that began on Friday, December 13 — exactly 12 days before Christmas — left me feeling disheartened. At least 25 people were shot, four fatally, over the course of those three days, starting with a shooting near the Christmas Village at City Hall’s Dilworth Park. My colleague Mensah M.

Dec 23, 2024 | thetrace.org | Joy Resmovits

The Trace One Saturday in November 2017, just days after Thanksgiving, Maxayn Gooden received one of the worst phone calls imaginable. The Harrisburg Police Department called to confirm that her son, JahSun Patton, had been shot to death. Patton, 18, was a Philadelphia high school senior with a promising future. He was looking forward to attending college and playing collegiate football. Patton was known for always smiling and his willingness to lend a helping hand.