Philadelphia marks Gun Violence Awareness Month, highlighting JWAT's role in reducing gun-related incidents, and emphasizing ...

Philadelphia's Health Department adopts a public health approach to gun violence, focusing on data analysis and community ...

A devastating blow happened for a West Philly organization working to save our streets. The group is working to move forward after the tragic loss of two of the organization’s members, both of them ...

People working to curb gun crime in Lansing are concerned that federal funding cuts are threatening the progress they’ve made ...

District Attorney Larry Krasner lent his support to a lawsuit aiming to reverse $500 million in cuts to federal public safety programs, accusing the president of wanting more urban violence and crime.

Violence prevention programs, particularly community-based interventions, can significantly reduce homicides and shootings in ...

This story is part of an ongoing series on youth justice. Part 1: An outlier in youth incarceration. Part 2: Reforms promised ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker joined elected leaders and residents Tuesday evening for a prayer vigil on the site where two people ...

A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

By the 2024 election, for the first time in awhile, violent crime was a major political issue in the US. A Pew survey that ...

People blame gun violence on different things depending ... LUDWIG: Which is a huge reduction. MA: Strategy two - help change people's environments. And this can be illustrated by a study Jens ...

Qidere Johnson, known as LGP Qua, a rapper who spoke about gun violence and promoted positivity in Philadelphia, was fatally shot in the city's Juniata Park neighborhood just before 4:40 p.m ...