It shouldn’t be this easy to find a shooting scene.

But on the average, at least one person has been murdered in Philadelphia every day over the last 25 years — and more than three-quarters of them have been killed with a gun.

Last week, local photojournalist Joe Kaczmarek took us to this scene just after a man had just been shot multiple times — but there has been no other reporting on any of the crime scenes he showed us that night.

GunCrisis.org is a new open source journalism project intended to fill in the gaps.

We will strive to avoid polarizing debates but contend that there is an epidemic of homicide by gunfire in Philadelphia and similar cities.

We will study the landscape and the roots of the crisis, seek the individuals and organizations working to disrupt and intervene, and expand the community of citizens who refuse to rest until we make a difference.

Join us at GunCrisis.org

The Midnight Motorcycle Run for Peace kicked off from Philadelphia City Hall late friday night.

According to their Facebook page, the Midnight Run for Peace Committee is an organization of dedicated motorcycle enthusiasts — committed to stopping violence by riding through high crime locations throughout the city — as well as promoting motorcycle safety.

So far this year, Philadelphia has suffered 61 homicides, nine fewer than 2011′s year-to-date total but 17 more than in 2010.

Office Hours: Jim MacMillan from SwatGazette on Vimeo.

As part of The Daily Gazette‘s new series, Office Hours, we sat down with Journalist in Residence for The Lang Center Jim MacMillan, to ask him about his life in the social network. With over 40,000 Facebook subscribers and double that on Twitter, MacMillan knows a thing or two about building a following.

Found live online at WhiteHouse.gov Tuesday night: Mick Jagger, now 68, performed at a Black History Month concert in the East Room. The Obamas were in attendance.

I spent Friday night riding around the Philadelphia with local news photographer Joe Kaczmarek. I am researching in preparation to produce a documentary on the crisis of gun crime in Philly and similar cities.

We went to the scene where a man had been found lying in the street, shot several times in the Swampoodle section of North Philadelphia. Nothing had changed in the three years since I covered crimes scenes on these streets.

Its time for a change.

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