Philadelphia’s homicide rate for January 2025 is down compared to the historic number from this time last year.

Philadelphia hit a milestone in 2024 with a homicide rate that dropped to the lowest point it has been in a decade. Violent crime has been decreasing steadily in Philadelphia -- earlier this year ...

The medical examiner who ruled the 2011 death of a Philadelphia teacher a homicide, then later suicide, released a new legal verification stating that he now believes the case should be ruled as ...

“Yes, we have work to do, but in 2025 we have the opportunity for the first time in over a decade to have less than 500 homicides,” Johnson said. “We have an opportunity for less life to be ...

Police statistics show 203 Black people died from gunshots in Philadelphia in 2024 — almost two-thirds the number who died in 2023 — as the city experienced an almost 10-year low in fatal ...