Philadelphia police will stop arresting kids who are accused of first-time, low-level offenses, and instead will send them to ...

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Philadelphia police will stop arresting kids who are accused of first-time, low-level offenses as part of a police diversion program, beginning Monday.

PAD provides community response services in partnership with ATL311, which is the non-emergency call center for the city.

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Philadelphia police will no longer arrest juveniles for some lower-level crimes. Instead, they'll become part of a new ...

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Instead, they'll become part of a new diversion program aimed at keeping kids out of the criminal justice system when possible. "Kids do kids stuff," Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Mike ...

The Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative has provided prearrest diversion services to the city since it was founded in 2017.

According to PAD’s monthly reports, the program helped divert more than 250 Atlantans from jail to community resources from January through October of 2024. The organization has worked with ATL 3-1-1 ...