Topic: Philadelphia Police Department

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

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

One Philadelphian learns a complicated lesson in how to help a stranger in public mental health distress — featuring a confusing municipal system and one very simple (and under funded) solution

A new master’s program will train members of the Philadelphia Police Department to become better managers and to innovate department-wide problem solving

After months of declining gun violence, 57 people have been shot this July. Residents fear what this means moving forward

Once a pilot, now a fully-fledged citywide program, PAD aims to divert Philadelphians from arrest and toward social services. One-and-a-half years in, how’s it doing?

The Citizen screened a powerful documentary featuring witnesses of the MOVE bombing, one of the darkest moments of Philadelphia’s racial history

After a year of intervention in Philadelphia’s most infamous neighborhood, homicides and shootings have dropped.

Gun crimes are dropping despite the Police Department being short 1,100 officers. Is that sustainable?

Philadelphia’s three-year-old Citizens Police Oversight Commission has yet to conduct an investigation. Executive Director Tonya McClary says the Fraternal Order of Police is to blame