Policing

Two friends touched by last month’s shooting at a graduation party in Southwest Philly organized a rally that drew 50 people, including city officials.

Mayors and police commissioners have been trying to reform the arbitration process for more than half a century.

“You need to say if we do this, this is the commitment we would have to make financially."

An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally has been sentenced to life in prison on hate crime charge

The Pennsylvania chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing state police for, it says, illegally turning drivers over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

What can a 4-year-old do that would make police pull guns on her pregnant mother?

The recent bloodshed, including five homicides in May, has only deepened the resignation some residents feel toward gun violence in their city.

About half the commonwealth's municipalities and 20 percent of its population would be affected.

The New Jersey Legislature has approved an expungement bill for marijuana.

The department’s directive hasn’t been updated since Blackberrys were a thing.

Hundreds showed up at Philadelphia Police headquarters on Friday for a protest calling for a response to the city officers allegedly linked to hateful Facebook posts.

Several of the officers named in the Facebook database, compiled by a group called the Plain View Project, have been targets of multiple misconduct probes in the past.

The Philadelphia NAACP is calling for the city police department to fire officers who are found to have posted racist, violent, or offensive content on social media.

Claire DeMatteis was senior counsel to Joe Biden when he was a U.S. Senator. Now she is Gov. Carney’s nominee to to lead Delaware’s prison system.

A recent report collected racist and violent posts made by more than 300 Philadelphia police officers, and the department has launched an internal investigation.