Policing

Warmer weather and a spike in some crimes were cited as reasons for the change.

Two more people incarcerated in Pennsylvania state prisons have died after testing positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to three since the pandemic began.

Nearly a decade after entering into a federal consent decree, civil rights attorneys say Philly cops still conduct too many illegal stops and frisks.

The preacher who gave up life as a police officer to curb gang violence is best known for driving around in a van with a coffin on its roof.

Fired Philly cop Sequeta Williams says the five-part documentary defamed her. Rappers Meek Mill and Jay-Z are currently named as defendants.

In one incident, a woman lowered her mask, said "B----, I don't have the virus,” and spit in another woman's face, according to Philadelphia police.

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against the parents of a 4-year-old girl in connection with her shooting death.

After a video of police dragging an unmasked man off a SEPTA bus went viral, the agency reversed coronavirus safety measures.

A new viral video shows what appears to a group of police officers forcibly pulling a man not wearing a face covering off of a SEPTA bus.

PPD Commissioner Outlaw acknowledged conditions are “not ideal.”

The city is not releasing how many have tested positive, but Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw is not among them.

Long before the coronavirus pandemic reached Philadelphia, advocates were on the front lines of another crisis: gun violence.

State police and other officials now have the power to order “non-life-sustaining” businesses to close. They say so far, they haven’t really had to use it.

“It's not like you can go out and arrest a bad guy and stop a problem. That's not going to stop this,” the police chief in Scranton said.

Cpl. James O’Connor was shot twice while police served an arrest warrant in the Frankford section of Philadelphia.