This interview marks the beginning of It’s Our City’s monthly sit down interviews with top city officials. The interviews will appear both on the website and later on TV12. In our first installment, veteran Philadelphia journalist Tom Ferrick spends an hour with Commissioner Ramsey about how his anti-crime plan is going.

Police are trying to find out who is responsible for spray painting Darrell L. Clarke’s car and two others with racist graffiti. According to the Philadelphia Daily News blog Philly Confidential, Clarke said when he went outside of his home this morning he found his car painted with Nazi symbols and the letters “KKK.”

The biggest concern for voters in last year’s Philadelphia mayoral election was crime. It was a year in which 264 people were murdered. Since that time, residents here have a new mayor and a new police commissioner. A lot of promises were made by the two, including reducing the number of homicides by [...]