Weekly Brief

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

Police report that 49 people were shot in Philadelphia during the seven-day period ending Sunday; the highest weekly total since November and up from 38 people shot during the previous week. This final installment of their 52-week report counts 2,222 shooting victims since December 30 of last year, amounting to an average of one person shot every four hours of every day since. Read More

Philadelphia’s weekly shooting victim total climbed back up to 38 for the week ending Sunday. The latest police update reports 2,173 shooting victims over the past 51 weeks; up 53.6 percent vs. the same period during 2019. Read More

Latest Philadelphia data • Police reported 31 shooting victims in Philadelphia during the week ending Sunday, representing the lowest weekly total since mid-June. The year-to-date total of 2,135 shooting victims is running 53 percent ahead Read More

Latest Philadelphia data • Police reported 464 homicides in Philadelphia through Monday night, up 39 percent from the same period last year and more than double the pace recorded in 2013. [PhillyPolice.com] New research • Read More

Latest Philadelphia data • Police report 70 people shot in Philadelphia during the week ending Sunday, the second-highest weekly total recorded since the category was added to their public reports in late April. On average, Read More

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

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

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

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

Philadelphia recorded the 400th homicide of 2020 yesterday, after recently surpassing the 12-month total of 391 people killed during all 365 days of 2007. Read More