Policing

One of the state’s most crime-ridden communities recorded a double-digit drop in murders in 2017.

Cops stopped a driver whose car was wanted in connection with an unsolved murder. But the driver wasn't the murder suspect and was unarmed when a plainclothes cop shot him.

Pioneered in Boston in the 1990s, focused deterrence identifies people — often gang members or those involved in the drug trade — most likely to commit violent crimes.

The New Castle County Police Department will use new grant money to hire a coordinator for its addiction treatment program

As Christians around the region prepare for the holy holiday, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput made a special visit to celebrate Christmas a week early with prisoners.

Delaware State Police have identified the man who they say was shot and killed after dragging a trooper with his vehicle Friday afternoon.

Immigrants detained at four centers used by ICE are subject to inhumane treatment, given insufficient hygiene supplies and medical care, and provided potentially unsafe food.

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup's Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

The Guardian Civic League claims narcotics supervisors ordered underlings to fudge paperwork to protect informants — and retaliated when some refused.

A sixth grade health class assignment that required students to write about a fictional drug addict reaching rock bottom and to draw thei ...

The rapper made his comments on Thursday as the keynote speaker at this year’s Hip Hop Summit at Stockton University.

The Philadelphia Police Department and SEPTA have assigned extra officers to Center City and transportation hubs.

Delaware State Police identified the teenager who was fatally wounded in a shootout with police over the weekend as Juliun Pitcher of Smyrna. 

Thousands of residents — predominately black — are still being questioned and patted down without any legal basis.

Using homelessness as a barometer, a Villanova criminologist looked at the experiences of more than 10,000 state inmates for nearly a decade after they were released.