Policing

Will a year of coronavirus, record-breaking gun violence, and civil unrest drive Philadelphians out of the city? Researchers wanted to find out.

According to court documents, Derek Chauvin posted $1 million bond.

Critics have low expectations for the chronically underfunded watchdog group.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw on Monday addressed the city’s major surge in gun violence.

La enmienda del estatuto es en gran parte simbólico.

The charter amendment is largely symbolic.

Two officers and their 10-day-old baby were unhurt when shots were fired into their home. The police chief says they were not the intended target.

Activists have long called for the equipment to increase trust between police and civilians, but the program had been stalled over alleged funding concerns.

Philadelphia sent its own powerful message of joyful unity and powerful protest to the far-right fascist group last month.

Mayor Reed Gusciora discusses the spike in city violence and how he gets along with the City Council.

On Thursday night, roughly 150 people gathered at Malcolm X Park for a candlelight vigil to remember Breonna Taylor and demand accountability for police.

An investigation by The Appeal and Spotlight PA found that troopers in three counties have taken drivers’ money with little evidence, sometimes the result of illegal searches.

Footage from the night of a shooting in Bedford Co. does not support state police accounts that a confrontation preceded shots being fired at a group of civil rights marchers.

For months, Breonna Taylor’s name has been a rallying cry for activists who hoped Black women and their deaths at the hands of police would finally receive the same attention.

Drexel Community for Justice and Penn Community for Justice called Friday’s march after Kentucky’s attorney general decided not to charge anyone for Taylor’s killing.