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It must be the obvious irony of the place name that makes the local crime wave in the City of Brotherly Love such a national story. Already in 2007, the city has suffered more than 250 murders. CBS had Byron Pitts file a two-parter from Battleline Philadelphia last month. Now ABC has assigned Pierre Thomas to north Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital emergency room for the second part of his Mean Streets. The ER runs a program dubbed The Cradle to the Grave to dramatize to neighborhood teenagers just how bad bullets are for one's health. It includes the reenactment of the case of Lamont Adams, a 16-year-old who died alone, without friends or family, after just 15 minutes of treatment in the trauma unit, shot 24 times over a $100 dice game. "The last step for these young people is the morgue. They left shell-shocked."
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