Policing

This comes as coronavirus cases are spiking in Philadelphia, and across the state and country. It’s also not the first coronavirus incident Philly police have had.

Witnesses called for greater transparency and railed against the high percentage of officers who are able to return to the force after being fired for their behavior.

DA Larry Krasner’s decision regarding veteran prosecutor Anthony Voci reportedly came down Monday.

Hate crimes rose to their highest numbers in a decade, with a record-breaking 51 fatal attacks, according to an FBI count released Monday.

All that was left was to set up the marketplace for recreational marijuana. Many say they were dismayed by lawmakers’ first try at enabling legislation.

Who will sit on it, how they will be selected, what its budget will be, its duties and powers — all of that will be finalized in the coming weeks.

The request is part of a larger package to reconcile the city’s budget from the last fiscal year.

Following the release of bodycam footage of the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., we'll discuss the impact that the incident has had and what should change.

A federal judge has ordered the pretrial release to Anthony Smith, a Philadelphia social studies teacher and organizer with Philly for REAL Justice.

We need justice system leaders to more carefully consider who they’re bringing into the system, and why, writes the chief public defender for Philadelphia.

If there is a weapon involved, “people feel comfortable enough to relinquish [it],” a local crisis response expert said.

Friends and family described a version of Wallace that went beyond his mental illness. And politicians vowed reform.

The questions were among four on the ballot in Philadelphia. Also approved: a city victim advocate office and a $134M bond issue.

More Tasers will not help solve ongoing divestment in Black Philadelphia, the cofounder of the Amistad Law Project argues.

The suspect has described coronavirus as a “psyop” and appears to justify killing people responsible for the pandemic in blog posts published to accounts he owns.