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.

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.

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.

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.

Philadelphia’s homicide count for last year was the lowest in almost a decade. The city’s spike in 2021 has been attributed to the pandemic, which began in early

The transit agency has added more people on its police force and worked to keep people from using their vehicles as a home.

Rape kits were widely known as "Vitullo Kits" after a Chicago police sergeant. But a new book tells the story of Marty Goddard, a community activist who worked with runaway teenagers in the 1970s.

DA Larry Krasner is reviewing the murder conviction of Michael Gaynor, who witnesses said wasn’t in the tiny Philly corner store when the 5-year-old boy was gunned down in crossfire between two men.

Patty Bartlett, 17, was stabbed to death in the parking lot of the Oxford Valley Mall in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on January 13, 1975.