Public Safety

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Saturday’s rally was framed as both a protest against gun violence and a galvanizing moment for teenage activists.

Students around the region gathered to protest Saturday as part of the nationwide March for Our Lives, organized by survivors of last mon ...

Some worry that rather than freeing up the CDC to fund more research on gun violence, the new language might do the opposite, by seeming to limit CDC funding.

In New Jersey, there’s a bail algorithm designed to recommend whether you sit behind bars or walk free until your trial. The state’s court system recently abandoned cash bail.

Records show that Paddock made several trips between one of his homes, in Mesquite, Nevada, to the hotel, apparently to transport the weapons.

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with Villanova education professor Jerusha Conner about youth activism and the 'Never Again' movement against gun violence.