The city says these grants are more than a one time investment. The organizations will join a network that works with the city to provide training, networking and engagement opportunities. From the beginning of our administration, we have worked to end mass incarceration and address systemic racism that causes significant harm to our Black and Brown communities, Mayor Jim Kenney said in a press release. These grants double down on our commitment to bringing about just and safe reform.
Kenney announced the news at the city s biweekly briefings on gun violence and solutions, which convenes in light of the city s gun violence epidemic. Homicides are up 33% from last year, and shootings are up 37%. Domestic violence-related homicides have doubled since last year, according to Philadelphia police data.
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Gun violence continue to rise, but the city’s biweekly briefings may already be having a positive effect.
Community activist Isaac Gardner, shown here leading a march in October 2020, runs Unsolved Murders in Philly, one of the organizations in the new program Emma Lee / WHYY Apr. 28, 2021, 4:20 p.m. Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn newsletter to get everything you need to know about Philadelphia, every day.
Twenty Philadelphia organizations working on criminal justice reform will receive microgrants between $5k to $10k from a $200,000 pot. The groups will become part of an ongoing collaboration to help stop the rising violence in Philadelphia, the city announced Wednesday.
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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw confer during a press event at Olney Transportation Center, where a mass shooting occurred on Feb. 17, 2021. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Amid a historic surge in shootings and homicides, Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration is proposing an additional $18.7 million for anti-violence efforts during the next fiscal year. The funding would be used to expand a pair of violence intervention programs, a transitional jobs initiative, as well as the city’s blight remediation efforts, among other priorities.
If approved by City Council, the total investment into anti-violence programming during FY22 would be $35.5 million out of a $5.18 billion proposed spending plan, less than 5% of the $727 million the Kenney administration wants to spend on the police department.
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Philadelphia, which is on pace for its deadliest year in decades, could see an expansion of funding for anti-violence measures in a 2021-2022 city budget proposed Tuesday by Mayor Jim Kenney.
Yet the increase to $36 million for programs ranging from early intervention initiatives for at-risk young people to job training and neighborhood cleanups still pales in comparison to other new spending in Kenney s budget.
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Street paving, for instance, would receive $100 million in new funding, bringing to $132 million the amount spent on fixing potholes in the new fiscal year that starts July 1.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) In a timely and eye-opening new study, researchers at Temple University found a correlation between measures taken by the City of Philadelphia to combat COVID-19 and the surge in gun violence.
A team led by Dr. Jessica Beard, assistant professor of surgery and director of trauma research at Lewis Katz School of Medicine, wanted to know why they were seeing such a huge spike in gun violence patients. It was in March actually that we saw a significant and sustained increase, nearly double of our violence in the City of Philadelphia, said Dr. Beard.
Using public data from the Philadelphia police, from January 2016 through November 26, 2020, they found an alarming correlation.