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 ...

Possession of a controlled substance, 12800 block of 11th Street, 5:13 p.m. Possession of a controlled substance, 4200 block of Riverside Drive, 1:11 p.m. Possession of drug materials, 11400 block 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 ...

Another woman was in critical condition at Temple University Hospital after jumping from the second floor while holding a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...