Tracking gun violence in Philadelphia: November 24, 2020
Police reported 440 year-to-date homicides in the city as on Sunday night, one more than double the number of victims reported on the same date in 2013. Read More
November 2020
Philadelphia journalists respond following a mother’s call to action
Michelle Kerr-Spry had a simple but powerful question to reporters: Why couldn’t she find anything helpful for her in the stories on her son’s death 13 years ago? Read More
Tracking gun violence in Philadelphia: November 17, 2020
As of midnight Sunday, police had recorded 430 homicides this year in Philadelphia, twice as many as had been recorded on the same date in 2013. Read More
Tracking gun violence in Philadelphia: November 10, 2020
Philadelphia crossed another grim threshold last week with more than 2,000 shooting victims recorded during the previous 365 days for the first time in recent years. Read More
Tracking gun violence in Philadelphia: November 3, 2020
Ten people were killed and 35 more were wounded in Philadelphia gun violence during the three days following the police shooting of Walter Wallace last week. Twenty-two people were shot on October 27 alone. Read More