As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023

PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. police departments ... the director of national programs at the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Violence interruption and intervention programs have helped decrease ...

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023.

A body was found inside a garbage can in West Philadelphia Thursday morning, prompting a homicide investigation, Philadelphia police announced. Officers responded to the 700 block of North 47th Street after 9:40 a.m. for reports of a body found inside a garbage can on the road.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A second man has been arrested for a murder that happened outside a cellphone store in North Philadelphia. Deonte Davis, 27, was taken into custody on Wednesday in Durham, North Carolina, the U.S. Marshals said.

The Philadelphia Police Department reported two shootings, a stabbing, the assaults of multiple police officers, and a car that plowed into a group of fans.

Ford's eight-cylinder marvel powered the Mustang, the F-150, and countless other models as well as giving birth to the Coyote, Voodoo, and Predator. D.C.s Department of Forensic Science is fully accredited again after losing its accreditation in 2021.

D.C.'s crime lab is once again fully accredited. Since 2021, the lab was not cleared to analyze evidence like DNA, firearms and fingerprints. WASHINGTON - D.C.s Department of Forensic Science is fully accredited again after losing its accreditation in 2021.

This decree was called the “ Bailey agreement .” It required the Philadelphia police to document all stop-and-frisk encounters, revise their policies and training to comply with constitutional standards, and reduce stops that lacked reasonable suspicion or were influenced by racial bias.

ICE completed a raid at a business in North Philadelphia on Tuesday and detained seven employees suspected of being in the country illegally.

ICE Philadelphia officials have not released details on the operation, including how many people were detained, if any had criminal records or why the car wash was targeted.

A man from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is facing numerous animal cruelty charges after allegedly beating and stabbing his family's dogs to death.