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NewsJanuary 8, 2024

Philadelphia PD Launches Recruiting Campaign

"We're looking to get out there, get in the field with officers on foot and bikes," Captain John Walker said. "But, we can't do that if we don't have the people."

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NewsJanuary 4, 2024

Philadelphia PD Fires DEI Officer

Leslie Marant, who began her job in April 2022, was fired by then-acting Commissioner John M. Stanford at a 10:30 a.m. meeting, who said that Bethel would be restructuring the department and would no longer need her services, a source said.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 16, 2022

Philadelphia and FOP Agree to Use More Civilians Within PD

Duties that will be reassigned to civilians include traffic enforcement and ticketing abandoned cars.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 1, 2022

Philadelphia Showcases New $252M Police Headquarters

When you enter the building, you’re greeted by a sculpture made up of more than 1,400 real police badges, and an updated seal of the City of Philadelphia.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 14, 2017

Feds Indict Philadelphia Officer in Corruption Case Against Baltimore PD Unit

A Philadelphia police officer was arrested Tuesday on federal drug charges and accused of conspiring with a Baltimore detective to sell cocaine and heroin seized from the streets.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 29, 2015

Video: Los Angeles, Philly Police Unions Join Boycott of Tarantino Films

The Los Angeles police union and the Philadelphia police union have joined the NYPD union in a boycott of the films of Quentin Tarantino in response to the director referring to "murder" in connection with police use of force at a New York rally over the weekend.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 21, 2011

Philadelphia PD To Change Stop and Frisk Policy

The Philadelphia Police Department will change the way it monitors, reviews and audits pedestrian arrests after settling a federal lawsuit filed in November over the department's controversial "stop and frisk" policy.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 4, 2010

Parolee Who Ambushed Philly Officer Could Face Death

The trial of Rasheed Scrugs, 35, is the fourth in 10 months covering one of the darkest periods in the Philadelphia PD, which lost seven officers on-duty in less than three years.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 18, 2010

Hung Jury Forces Life Sentences In Philly Cop's Killing

The two bank robbers involved in the fatal shooting of Philadelphia PD Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski in 2008 avoided the death penalty, when a Common Pleas Court jury deadlocked on execution because they didn't pull the trigger.

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