Of course Slow Eddie Rendell sides with criminals against decent and honest folks...

...he's a Philly Machine politician. Crime is a way of life for him.

Standard Speaker: Rendell: City law ‘feeds off’ hatred
Hazleton, PA Mayor Louis Barletta and Gov. Ed Rendell traded barbs over a new city ordinance that cracks down on illegal immigrants, with Rendell saying during a Thursday stop in Scranton that it had been drafted by “mean-spirited” politicians who “feed off hate and divisiveness.”