If you’ve been following the mayoral and city council elections in Philadelphia, you know that one of the biggest issues facing candidates is how to deal with the rise in gun violence over the past ...

When NYPD cops fired 50 times and killed unarmed Sean Bell a year ago, they called it “contagious fire.” When they shot and killed troubled teen Kheil Coppin last month, mistaking a hairbrush for a ...

Police in a number of neighborhoods across Northwest Philadelphia will be among the first to take part in a three-month initiative aimed at assessing new approaches to stop-and-frisk that advocates ...