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 ... the director of national programs at the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Violence interruption and intervention programs have helped decrease ...

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 (WPVI) -- A second man has been arrested for a murder that happened outside a cellphone store in North Philadelphia. Deonte Davis, 27, was taken into custody on Wednesday in Durham, North Carolina, the U.S. Marshals said.

The many cameras will run along Pennsylvania Route 13 in Philadelphia. You probably know that route better as the roadways whose sections make it up: parts of Baltimore Avenue, Powelton Avenue, Frankford Avenue, Girard Avenue, and Hunting Park Avenue, among others.

Ford's eight-cylinder marvel powered the Mustang, the F-150, and countless other models as well as giving birth to the Coyote, Voodoo, and Predator. D.C.s Department of Forensic Science is fully accredited again after losing its accreditation in 2021.

D.C.'s crime lab is once again fully accredited. Since 2021, the lab was not cleared to analyze evidence like DNA, firearms and fingerprints. WASHINGTON - D.C.s Department of Forensic Science is fully accredited again after losing its accreditation in 2021.

This decree was called the “ Bailey agreement .” It required the Philadelphia police to document all stop-and-frisk encounters, revise their policies and training to comply with constitutional standards, and reduce stops that lacked reasonable suspicion or were influenced by racial bias.

Authorities said there are more than 500 cases in question over the analyst’s allegedly altered reports, costing the state more than $11 million.

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 ...

A man from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is facing numerous animal cruelty charges after allegedly beating and stabbing his family's dogs to death.