Crime

Progressives cheered, but the Sheriff’s viral press conference about Trump and ICE was a spectacle Philly can ill afford on the national stage right now

A longtime resident at SCI Chester has teamed up with a facility superintendent on a program that brings generations together and transforms lives, says a director of the Penn Prison Education and Reentry Initiative

For some jurors, the hardest part comes post-trial. A free West Chester University program helps citizens who’ve served recover from stress and PTSD

Research has found that fixing up abandoned homes can make a city safer. The H.O.M.E Plan calls for building and rehabbing 30,000 homes in four years

Philadelphia has the country’s second-highest rate of package theft. Whose fault is it — and what is the solution?

In the aftermath of the tragic Kada Scott murder, the D.A. has said the buck stops with him. Or was he actually passing it?

As officials create a new public safety plan, Philadelphians offer City officials their ideas on how to continue fighting gun violence

The $5.5 million pilot program is a key part of Mayor Parker’s plan to address the addiction and homelessness issues in the ravaged neighborhood. Nine months in, no one seems to know when — or if — we’ll know it’s successful

A series of shootings prompted York officials to ban ghost guns and machine gun converters like their colleagues in the eastern part of the state. But the laws may not stick

A Trace analysis of 10 years of neighborhood-level shooting data found that gun violence is lower almost everywhere than it was in 2015 — but Philadelphians are still reeling from more than 16,000 shootings.