Complications from the COVID-19 pandemic haven’t been helping and the epidemic of gun violence continues to expand at unprecedented rates but the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting has continued making steady progress during our first six months. 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
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
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
Soon, we can expect that the number of people killed so far this year in Philadelphia to surpass the 391 total homicides recorded during all 365 days of 2007, as well as every year since. This year’s homicide rate is presently running 20 percent ahead of the pace set in 2007. Read More
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