Crime

Roca, a program in Massachusetts and Baltimore trains shooters to refrain from shooting by literally changing their minds. See the founder at Ideas We Should Steal Festival on November 17

More than 60 percent of people incarcerated in the U.S. suffer from addiction. Philadelphia jails could offer a model for helping them get — and stay — sober

A legal expert explains why Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Wendy L. Pew was wrong to dismiss charges against the cop who killed Eddie Irizarry — and why we should also see a silver lining

The automatic license plate recognition system (ALPR) helped Atlanta police capture a mass shooter in May. Could it help Philly police put an end to rising car thefts and violence, as well?

Looting. Unprosecuted shoplifting. ATVs running amok. A judge dismissing charges against a killer cop. Drag racing in the dead of night. Can we reverse the message that rules no longer apply?

A Philly-based criminal justice reform advocate on why state legislators should pass this week’s bipartisan bill to upend PA’s “nonsensical” probation system

MSNBC anchor and Citizen Board member points out the differences in scope and scale of the allegations against Hunter Biden vs. those against Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner

All but lost in the breathless account of the escaped murderer was the reason he was in jail in the first place: abusing and killing his girlfriend

The first in a series on pilot programs looks at one that has deterred speeders and saved lives on Roosevelt Boulevard may not become permanent. How can Philly sustain — and keep track of — our City’s many such feasibility studies?

City Council is set to vote this week on banning safe injection sites from all but one district in Philadelphia. Toronto has modeled another way