A new audit from the Citizens Police Oversight Commission finds Philadelphia police officers aren’t always keeping their body worn cameras on during vehicle stops. The commission calls the finding a “major concern”.
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration plans to allocate more to Riverview than to all other opioid settlement money initiatives combined.
Jillian Bauer-Reese is an educator, journalist, and social worker. She leads Kensington Voice and teaches at Temple University, where she studies media harm reduction practices in stigmatized communities.
Previously, the streets surrounding the intersection were split between Districts 1 and 7, each represented by one council member. Now, the area is divided into Districts 1, 6, and 7 and is served by three representatives.
The managing director, a position currently held by Tumar Alexander, directly oversees various city departments and programs responsible for addressing quality-of-life concerns in Kensington.
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The prosecution’s explanation that Patrick Heron, 54, is now required by law to register as a lifetime sex offender marked the end of an unexpectedly dramatic, hours-long hearing in a mostly empty courtroom at the criminal justice center.
Patrick Heron, who faces over 200 sex crime charges, worked as a police officer for the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) for 24 years before resigning in 2019. During that time, Heron worked for the 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 39th precincts, a spokesperson for the PPD said.
On Thursday, Philly City Council voted to ban supervised injection sites in nearly all of Philadelphia, except for City Council District 3 in West and Southwest Philly.
In one of his final conversations, Randolph "Primo" White told a friend, "When I die, people are gonna remember me because of all the good deeds that I’ve done; they gonna remember me in these streets – how I was.”
Randolph White, quien desempeñó un papel fundamental en la creación del centro creativo y la organización pro juventud Ride Free, falleció en un accidente de moto el 22 de julio.
