Take THAT, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh!

The Patriot News reported today that our fine city which we call home ranked Numero Uno in Crime Per Capita for the entire state.

Pennsylvania State Police Uniform Crime Reporting System figures released this week show Harrisburg with 72.7 crimes per 1,000 people, Lancaster at 66.6 per 1,000 people, and York at 65.6 per 1,000 people.

In comparison, Philadelphia came in at 57.8 per 1,000 people and Pittsburgh had a rate of 51.9 per 1,000 people.

So what does this tell us?

Nothing that we didn’t really already know.

The City of Harrisburg appears to be on the brink of collapse. With the Mayors office and administration named in a lawsuit filed by Dauphin County earlier this week seeking a court order to force payment of required debt payments on the Harrisburg incinerator, which is owned by the authority in addition to what sounds like a mass-exodus of lifelong city administrators, the future of the Capitol of the Commonwealth is shaky at best.