As we close out 2024, there are some encouraging numbers from the Philadelphia Police Department as crime numbers are down for the first time since before the pandemic. Homicides as of Dec. 30 ...

Philadelphia police said three people died in a fire at a Strawberry Mansion rowhome on Corlies Street Friday morning.

The city of Philadelphia has updated the process for its crime rewards program after it was reported that not all tipsters ...

Fifteen people were arrested Tuesday after 150 protesters gathered in Center City to rally against the Trump administration's ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Police Department announced a new crime-fighting strategy that will see the deployment of what the department calls the "Mobile Surge Team." The unit of ...

While violent crime numbers are dropping ... One of the biggest safety challenges for the Philadelphia Police Department has become the ever-evolving effort to clean up the open-air drug market ...

In his September debate with Harris, Trump claimed “Crime here is up and through the roof.” Trump has previously cited statistics to support his claims. At a rally in Philadelphia in June, ...

Exploring Philadelphia’s child lifers as ... In 1996, a bipartisan group calling itself the Council on Crime in America released a dire report. The headline in The New York Times: “Experts ...

Three police officers in Northeast Philadelphia were shot Wednesday night, according to multiple reports. The shooting took place on the 7500 block of Whitaker Avenue, where police responded to a ...

The Philadelphia Crime and Police Survey was conducted November 7–17 ... Ph.D., and the American Directions Research Group examined multiple areas of the Philadelphia Police Department’s performance.

In 2018, Joseph Messina walked outside his house and saw a racial slur spray-painted on his South Philadelphia home. “SNITCHIN A** DIE CRACKER” was what the hate-filled message read.

The “interim report” by a House committee criticized ... “The investigation into the historic crime and violence in Philadelphia and recommendations for possible solutions will continue ...