Frankford Civic Association members and board members are still trying to prevent the Wedge Medical Treatment Center from opening on Frankford Avenue.

During their Nov. 6 meeting, they complained that City Council and the Office of Addiction Services, a division of the city’s Department of Behavioral Health & Mental Retardation Services, have not scheduled a town hall meeting, which civic group members say they were promised, to discuss the issue of Wedge and other treatment centers in Frankford, as well as so-called "recovery houses."

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The 15th Police District is the busiest district in Philadelphia.
So says Sgt. Dennis Rosenbaum, who told members of the Frankford Civic Association during their meeting last week that the district had reached 113,000 calls for the year so far.

"That number was just reached an hour ago," Rosenbaum said during the civic group’s Oct. 2 meeting. "The next district over is the 25th, and they are only at 93,000 calls so far this year."

Rosenbaum, who joined the 15th district last November, previously served in the police department’s strategic intervention and tactical enforcement special unit (SITE) with then-Commissioner Sylvester Johnson.

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KatieRose Keenan of the Northeast Times Reports: 

Frankford residents concerned about so-called "weed stores" and alleged brothels operating under the guise of everyday shops received a sympathetic ear from Rachel Steamer.

She’s an assistant district attorney assigned to the Public Nuisance Task Force, and she discussed those issues with people who attended the Sept. 4 meeting of the Frankford Civic Association.

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