As we close out 2024, there are some encouraging numbers from the Philadelphia Police Department as crime numbers are down for the first time since before the pandemic. Homicides as of Dec. 30 ...

The city of Philadelphia has updated the process for its crime rewards program after it was reported that not all tipsters ...

Philadelphia police officers are looking for a man who posed as a law enforcement official and robbed a business ...

Fifteen people were arrested Tuesday after 150 protesters gathered in Center City to rally against the Trump administration's ...

While violent crime numbers are dropping ... One of the biggest safety challenges for the Philadelphia Police Department has become the ever-evolving effort to clean up the open-air drug market ...

Police are searching for a man who they say zip-tied a store employee and robbed the business while impersonating a law ...

In his September debate with Harris, Trump claimed “Crime here is up and through the roof.” Trump has previously cited statistics to support his claims. At a rally in Philadelphia in June, ...

Exploring Philadelphia’s child lifers as ... In 1996, a bipartisan group calling itself the Council on Crime in America released a dire report. The headline in The New York Times: “Experts ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Police Department announced a new crime-fighting strategy that will see the deployment of what the department calls the "Mobile Surge Team." The unit of ...

The “interim report” by a House committee criticized ... “The investigation into the historic crime and violence in Philadelphia and recommendations for possible solutions will continue ...

In 2018, Joseph Messina walked outside his house and saw a racial slur spray-painted on his South Philadelphia home. “SNITCHIN A** DIE CRACKER” was what the hate-filled message read.