Topic: Philadelphia Police Department

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

The Point Breeze native spent 26 years imprisoned for a murder he says he didn’t commit. His release comes after years of efforts by lawyers and high-profile activists, including sports reporter Michael Barkann and local business leader Jay Coen Gilbert

Gun violence is significantly down in Philly this year, including among young people. But residents aren’t celebrating just yet

The DA just won his second historic conviction of an on-duty police officer. Here’s why House Republicans are using that against him

On the heels of settling a lawsuit with Philly, the nation’s largest manufacturer of controversial ghost gun kits has now been sued by a local victim’s parents. Are we finally catching up to the ghost gun crisis?

The latest episode of our How to Really Run a City podcast presents the final installment of an in-depth conversation between legendary Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey and co-hosts Kasim Reed, Michael Nutter, and Larry Platt