A 60-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run while crossing North Broad Street in Philadelphia early Monday morning, police announced. The crash happened in the 2700 block of North Broad Street ...

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw on Wednesday highlighted some of the city's disconcerting crime statistics so far in 2022 during a virtual bi-weekly briefing on gun violence.

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 ...

At least nine Philadelphia businesses have been burglarized by the same suspects over the span of several months, and now ...

An investigation is underway after police said a 42-year-old man died following a shooting in Philadelphia overnight. According to the Philadelphia Police Department, on Saturday, June 14, 2025, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.