Topic: Gun Violence

A CHOP pediatric trauma surgeon asks: What if we confronted the number one cause of death among children the same way we dealt with motor vehicle safety?

A new Philadelphia program — modeled on an already-successful version for adults — helps young people put down the guns

Is this City-funded program — which also helps participants build job skills and rethink decisions — responsible for Philadelphia’s declining homicide rate?

How the hell did that happen? And why is the mayor not taking more credit for it? The anatomy of a stunning turnaround

How community organizers in Philly plan to keep gun violence down in 2026

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

What does America need on Thanksgiving 2025? Civility, kindness and open-mindedness, of the kind demonstrated by political enemies-turned-best friends Fred Guttenberg and Joe Walsh

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

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.