Policing

Another weekend of protests in and around Philadelphia put the Fourth of July in a different light for many who never saw the holiday as representing them.

“The 52nd Street neighbors were terrorized,” said Saj Blackwell, a West Philadelphian who had a canister of police tear gas land in her yard.

In a tweet, the department said that Jaron Jones was one of those depicted in the photos, which were taken sometime after McClain's death last summer.

Demonstrations for LGBTQ equality overlapped with protests against violence and systemic racism against Black people.

Originally, New Jersey said all troopers would have been outfitted with body cameras by 2019.

Lawsuit filed to return statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo to committee that paid for it.

Jose de Marco sent the funerary wreath to Philadelphia Managing Director Brian Abernathy after a man died of coronavirus in a city homeless shelter.

Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki said he will amend the city’s budget to provide nearly $1 million to start the city’s police body camera program.

The district attorney hopes a new pilot effort will help Philadelphia heal wounds caused by police and prosecutors.

McClain's name is among those used as a rallying cry during nationwide protests over racial injustice and police brutality.

The 2020 Black National Convention will take place Aug. 28 via a live broadcast.

WHYY's Community Engagement Editor Christopher Norris leads a discussion on defunding the police & the future of public safety.

Nearly 50 people were locked in the shuttered jail two years after city officials deemed it unfit for human life.

Earlier in the day, neighborhood organizations attended a training on alternatives to policing.

Activists from all over New Jersey came to Trenton calling on the state to implement reforms to police departments.