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Walnut Hill

Walnut Hill: Police Headquarters May Give New Life to Vacant Building

April 10, 2012

https://vimeo.com/39813764] As the elevated subway car rolls into the nearby station, the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. building sits perfectly silent, serving as a nod to Walnut Hill’s storied past. The sprawling 15-acre site has

ATV Rider
Crime

Hunting Park: ATVs and Dirt Bikes Flood City Streets

April 3, 2012

https://vimeo.com/38889282] In Philadelphia it is illegal to ride a dirt bike or an all-terrain vehicle on any street, sidewalk or pathway. Nevertheless, as summer dawns on the city, dirt bikes and ATVs fill the city

Center City

Center City: Occupy Philadelphia Protestors Evicted

November 30, 2011

Hundreds of police officers moved in early this morning and surrounded City Hall to issue the final eviction notice to Occupy Philadelphia protestors before they started to make arrests. They gave the protestors three warnings

Crime

Technology: Predicting Future Crimes in Philadelphia

April 12, 2011

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”

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