Police reported 61 shooting victims in Philadelphia during the seven-day period ending Sunday; up from 43 recoded during each of the previous two weeks. Last year, 113 people were shot during the entire month of January in Philadelphia. Read More
Making year-to-date comparisons can result in dramatic day-to-day fluctuations this early in a new year. Check the 365-day tracker on our Philadelphia Shooting Victims dashboard to spot long-term trends. Read More
New resource: You can now find this 48-month chart of Philadelphia shooting victims, based on police data and updated each month, under the PHL tab on our home page. Last month, 181 people were shot in the city. Read More
Police are reporting 181 shooting victims in Philadelphia during December, down slightly from the previous month but still 66 percent above the average victim total seen during the same month over the past five years. Altogether, police recorded 2,251 shooting victims in Philadelphia during 2020, a 53 percent increase over the previous year. At least 402 shooting victims died during 2020, representing a 33 percent increase over the previous year. Read More
Jim MacMillan is the founder and director of the Philadelphia the Center for Gun Violence Reporting. The Center is a project of the Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting, which he launched in 2019, during his residential fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri. Read More
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