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Public Safety

Daryl Boling
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Political leaders must address prolific access to assault weapons

The bottom line is this: The rights of individuals to live free from fear that friends and family might be the next victim of senseless gun violence should be paramount.

7 years ago

Delaware is offering $3,000 signing bonuses to new correctional officers. In this photo, Gov. John Carney (center, in dark suit) attends a memorial service for Lt. Steven Floyd, who was killed during an uprising by prison inmates in February 2017. (John Jankowski/for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delaware offers bonuses, higher salary to fill 260 prison guard vacancies

One in seven Delaware prison guard positions is vacant. The state is offering bonuses and higher pay to fill the jobs.

7 years ago

Emma Gonzalez,David Hogg,Cameron Kasky,Alex Wind
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

The kids tell the adults to take a seat; they’ve got this

These kids didn’t spring suddenly from nowhere. They’ve been watching us, learning from our countless, self-imposed mistakes. I can’t wait to follow them into the future.

7 years ago

A backhoe works on the lot adjacent to 1855 N. 21st St., an illegal boarding house where 10 people are believed to have lived before a deadly fire struck last week.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Can better informed residents make neighborhoods safer, Philly Councilwoman asks with new bill

After a fire killed four residents of an illegal rooming house in North Philly last month, city leaders are wrestling with how to prevent similar tragedies from striking.

7 years ago

Police in Princeton, N.J. closed Nassau Street between Washington and Witherspoon streets after a person with a gun entered the Panera restaurant there. (Dana Difilippo/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Man killed in Panera standoff was armed with what turned out to be BB gun

New Jersey officials have released surveillance footage in last month's shooting death of an armed man inside the Panera Bread restaurant, near Princeton University's campus.

7 years ago

March for Our Lives
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Community

Hope vs. fear: A 13-year-old’s experience at the March for Our Lives

“Tell me what democracy looks like, THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!” ...

7 years ago

ROAR for Good's CEO, Yasmine Mustafa, created Athena after hearing sexual assault stories while traveling in South America.
Community

With ‘culture of consent’ still work in progress, Philly woman markets wearable distress signal

Philadelphia entrepreneur Yasmine Mustafa took a trip that inspired her own effort to protect women from sexual assault.

7 years ago

Avery Jones, a student at William Penn High School in organized the town hall to discuss guns and gun violence Saturday morning. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Community

Student-led ‘Town Hall For Our Lives’ draws big crowd, many views in Delaware

New Castle, Delaware hosted a packed town hall style meeting on gun violence Saturday.

7 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy  (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

New Jersey governor orders regular gun violence reports

There were nearly 500 gun deaths in New Jersey in 2016.

7 years ago

Protesters hold signs aloft as they attend the March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control in Washington, D.C., last month. (Cliff Owen/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

How the NRA worked to stifle gun violence research

The 1996 law only prohibits the CDC from advocating for gun control, but it does not block research altogether.

7 years ago

Fire gutted this house at 1855 N. 21st St., killing four people.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Renter beware: Philly’s deadly housing problem

Invisible, uncounted tenants like the Johnsons are nothing new in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

The building was gutted by fire on Feb. 18. Adjacent buildings were damaged.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Demolition begins on Old City buildings gutted by fire

Demolition work began Tuesday on a pair of historic buildings in Old City that were gutted by a February 18th fire.

7 years ago

Robert Edwards, center, a student from Washington, speaks alongside lawmakers and gun control activists at the U.S. Capitol
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Students and teachers need resources, not armed camps

Students do not need more firepower, police, metal detectors, and other trappings of the school-to-prison pipeline in their schools.

7 years ago

A man holds a sign as he stands outside the War Memorial, near a group of Second Amendment advocates gathered in opposition to about a half-dozen gun control bills expected to get a vote in the Assembly on Monday, March 26, 2018, near the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J.
Politics & Policy

New Jersey lawmakers advance bills to tighten gun laws

New Jersey's Democrat-led Assembly passed six measures aimed at strengthening the state's already-strict gun laws.

7 years ago

Pa. state Sen. Sharif Street has introduced a bill that would make people sentenced to life in prison eligible for parole after serving 15 years. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Proposed law would make life without parole a thing of the past in Pennsylvania

Being sentenced to life without the possibility of parole could be a thing of the past in Pennsylvania under a bill proposed by State Sen. Sharif Street.

7 years ago

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