Policing

As police continue to stop and frisk Black Americans at higher rates than whites in the city, Black groups renewed demands that Mayor Kenney end the law enforcement tactic.

Dubbed the BREATHE Act, the legislation is the culmination of a project led by the policy table of the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of more than 150 organizations

The city’s crime data recording system is “a rustic operation,” per the Philadelphia Police Department.

Delaware County’s district attorney is leading new efforts, highlighting a basic challenge: police departments are beholden to municipal leaders instead.

Del. police have shot 56 people since 2005, but no officer has ever been charged with a crime — even when prosecutors wanted to. Now, change could be coming.

Organizers said the group is demanding Philly’s mayor step down and that police be disarmed, following violent responses to protests last month.

Another weekend of protests in and around Philadelphia put the Fourth of July in a different light for many who never saw the holiday as representing them.

“The 52nd Street neighbors were terrorized,” said Saj Blackwell, a West Philadelphian who had a canister of police tear gas land in her yard.

In a tweet, the department said that Jaron Jones was one of those depicted in the photos, which were taken sometime after McClain's death last summer.

Originally, New Jersey said all troopers would have been outfitted with body cameras by 2019.

Lawsuit filed to return statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo to committee that paid for it.

Jose de Marco sent the funerary wreath to Philadelphia Managing Director Brian Abernathy after a man died of coronavirus in a city homeless shelter.

Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki said he will amend the city’s budget to provide nearly $1 million to start the city’s police body camera program.

The district attorney hopes a new pilot effort will help Philadelphia heal wounds caused by police and prosecutors.

McClain's name is among those used as a rallying cry during nationwide protests over racial injustice and police brutality.