As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023.

On the data-driven side, an increasing number of police departments around the country, including Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, are using predictive analytics to stop crime ...

Two Philadelphia men pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder and racketeering charges in the March 2020 shooting death of a city police officer.

Bilal Qayyum, president of the Father’s Day Rally Committee, believes the collaboration and financial investment in community groups has had the biggest impact on the number of

Surveillance video from outside the store shows the suspect wearing a mask covering most of his face, gray pants and a blue jacket.

Quron Banks, who was allegedly involved in an illegal car meetup, was charged for striking a Philadelphia police officer. He was also shot by a Philly police officer after the incident.

A white Jeep Grand Cherokee matching the description of the vehicle seen leaving the murder scene of 17-year-old Noah Scurry, a Samuel Fels High School basketball player, was recovered in Northeast Philadelphia Wednesday morning, according to police.

Gary Schildhorn, an attorney in Philadelphia, was driving to work one morning when his cell phone rang. It was a local number and when he answered, it was his son Brett's voice on the phone ...

PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023. In many parts of the country, though, those decreases don’t match the public perception.

Pennsylvania leaders have acknowledged the harms and abuses in juvenile institutions. Yet Philly remains a national leader in using them.

Designed to gather and preserve biological evidence found on the body of a person reporting a sexual assault, it introduced standardized forensics into the investigation of rape where there had previously been no common protocol.