Voice: Mensah M. Dean

Warm weather often brings a spike in shootings. Officials are hoping to mitigate it through teen programming and increased patrols

Despite helping to slow bloodshed, several local gun violence prevention community groups are losing federal funding

After a year of intervention in Philadelphia’s most infamous neighborhood, homicides and shootings have dropped.

The Mayor’s budget would maintain programs that she says helped drive down shootings, despite uncertainty under President Donald Trump

The double punch of the Trump presidency and the end of pandemic relief money leaves a key component of Philly’s success in reducing gun violence up in the air

Philadelphia’s three-year-old Citizens Police Oversight Commission has yet to conduct an investigation. Executive Director Tonya McClary says the Fraternal Order of Police is to blame

Philadelphia’s status as the nation’s poorest big city is a major cause of its gunfire.

Gunfire in Philadelphia has taken grandfathers, brothers, cousins, and children. The losses reflect what’s at the root of America’s shooting epidemic

Homicides are down more than 45 percent this year, while all shootings have dropped more than 35 percent. How did that happen — and who is most affected?

For the first time in a decade, three gun violence prevention bills passed the state house this year. Here’s why they still might not become law