As Philadelphia marked its 500th murder of the year, city leaders announced an initiative that will place more police officers in neighborhoods hit hardest by.
As of mid-December, year-to-date homicides in Philadelphia are down 8%. Some community leaders and activists say it’s too soon to call the reduction an accomplishment.
/PRNewswire/ Children s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced the inaugural recipients of its Healthier Together Initiative Growing Resilience in Teens.
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Like gun buybacks, curfew violations are a popular crime-fighting strategy because they have very little political cost. Most of the teenagers affected are not likely to vote in next year's elections.