Several City Council members have been working over the past few weeks to come up with a solution to lower crime rates. Earlier this month, Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. along with Councilmembers Maria Quinones-Sanchez, Wilson
The Philadelphia Police’s 39th District hosted a neighborhood meeting Monday night to discuss safety and security due to a recent string of robberies in the district, which includes part of East Falls. About fifteen citizens
In a basement of a small apartment in Tacony, four mentally disabled adults were found chained to a boiler and locked behind a steel door in what Philadelphia police described the location as a “dungeon”
https://vimeo.com/29994883] “Do you want to live or do you want to die?” That’s the question Philadelphia CeaseFire, an anti-violence organization, asks all clients before they can seek help from the outreach program. CeaseFire is an organization
https://vimeo.com/29461501] When I came to Fairhill to get interviews about the death of an esteemed resident, I must admit I was a little nervous. James Hall, affectionately known as “The Mayor” or “Bus,” meant a
https://vimeo.com/25575254] Burglaries have recently been a hot topic for residents in Northeast Philadelphia. But what exactly constitutes a burglary? Many confuse the term with theft or robbery. Burglaries fall under an entirely different category. The
https://vimeo.com/25534340] “We Is Got Him.” That’s what the first of 23 ransom letters said in which $20,000 was demanded in return for the kidnapped Charley Ross. But the two main suspects, William Mosher and Joseph
At around 10:45 a.m. today a motorcyclist was severely injured from a collision with a vehicle at the intersection of North Second Street and Wyoming Avenue, officials said. Rivera Walters, 24, was driving west on
Police officers have the toughest job in the city. I’ve had the opportunity to work with officers in a variety of places and found that there are some important facts: –Many officers don’t think much
https://vimeo.com/22391431] The term “crime prediction” often evokes the pop culture memory of Steven Spielberg’s 2002 science fiction film Minority Report, where the government polices its citizenry through a trio of psychic beings known as “precogs”
