Philadelphia Police
Police Reform Can’t Happen Behind Closed Doors
Here’s what we know: Sometime today, members of the Police Community Oversight Board — the 24-member panel appointed by Mayor Nutter to oversee police reform […]
(UPDATED) Lawyer to Seth Williams: Reopen Brandon Tate-Brown Investigation
Updated with response from D.A. Seth Williams. The lawyer representing the family of Brandon Tate-Brown called on District Attorney William to reopen the criminal investigation into […]
Ramsey Defends Police Statements in Tate-Brown Case
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey on Thursday defended his department’s handling of the Brandon Tate-Brown case, saying his department provided an early, inaccurate account of the […]
Alice Goffman’s Book on “Fugitive Life” in Philly Under Attack
Last year, Alice Goffman published On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, an adaptation of her dissertation at Princeton. For six years, while […]
Here Are the City’s Investigative Files in the Brandon Tate-Brown Shooting
[Update 1:05 p.m.] The documents identify publicly — for the first time — the two officers who were involved in the shooting: Nicholas Carrelli and […]
WATCH: Cop Helps Philly Rapper Free a Cat Trapped in His Car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZP-gZFsrNM The folks over on the Philadelphia Reddit page dug up a video posted yesterday of a local cop helping Philly battle rapper Uncle Nate […]
Gov. Tom Wolf Recalls State Police Nominee Marcus Brown
Gov. Tom Wolf today recalled the nomination of Marcus Brown to lead the Pennsylvania State Police, but said Brown would stay in the post as […]
Hero Cop Stops Rising Sun Pizza Robbery In Northeast Philly
A Philadelphia Police detective stopped a robbery Thursday night at a popular pizza joint in Northeast Philly, getting in a shootout with a gunman who, […]
Killer of Off-Duty Officer Sentenced to Life in Prison
The man convicted of killing an off-duty Philadelphia Police officer in 2012 was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after a dramatic hearing. Rafael Jones, […]
The Brief: Why Are Minorities Shunning Careers as Cops in Philly?
1. Why does the Philadelphia Police Department have so few minority recruits? The gist: Citified and other outlets have reported before on the race gap in […]
Acquitted Officers Won’t Get Parade Honor
Plans to honor six acquitted narcotics officers at a parade benefitting a police charity have been dropped after parade organizers came under criticism. The officers […]
Police: Masked Bandit Strikes Sarcone’s Bakery In Italian Market
Is nothing sacred? First there was the drunken vandalism at Jim’s Steaks on South Street. Then there was the robbery at Ishkabibble’s II, also on […]
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
For those of us who have been pleading the cause of police reform since before Ferguson spotlighted the issue, Thursday’s acquittal of six Narcotics Unit […]
Will Philly End Its Rape Kit Backlog?
Natasha Alexenko was a sophomore in college, majoring in film, living in New York City. She’d grown up in a small town in Ontario, raised […]
Narcotics Cops Found Not Guilty on All Counts
The six former Philadelphia Police officers accused of shaking down drug dealers have been found not guilty on all counts in their federal trial. Philadelphia […]