Policing

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross has vowed to fire some officers who made offensive Facebook posts. But whether those firings stick isn't up to him.

Forty out of nearly 8,000 inmates processed at the county jail in 2018 were found to be undocumented immigrants and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Philadelphia police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving a 39 year-old officer with the department and his estranged wife.

The report comes amid growing outrage over detention conditions for migrants

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.

Police officials in Philadelphia are describing the action as the largest removal of officers from the street in recent memory.

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.