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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.

Hate speech from armed government employees endangers us all.

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is reviewing a database of offensive social media comments posted by city cops to look for evidence of bias.

Murders and shootings are up in Philly over this time last year. The police department will deploy dozens of additional officers to patrol the streets this summer.

The chief of the San Francisco Police Department, Bill Scott, issued an apology Friday for a recent raid on the home of a freelance journalist.

One bright spot is that more good tips are coming in from the public and state or local police, the majority of which are "spot on," the FBI official said.