The chart below generated by the District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab highlights the number of incidents reported by the public to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from July 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests made...
By Nat Lownes, DATA Lab Software Engineer, and Kate Kelly, DATA Lab Content Manager 50 years ago, the Philadelphia Inquirer published results from the first-ever computer analysis of criminal legal data to be conducted by a newspaper. This very likely was the first time that Philadelphians had seen...
Thanks to Assistant District Attorney Alexander Blumenthal, Supervisor of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Elder Justice Unit, for helping secure justice in a case where an older Philadelphia resident was the victim of theft and fraud. This prosecution was based on Philadelphia...
The chart below generated by the District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab highlights the number of incidents reported by the public to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from June 1, 2021, to November 30, 2022. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests made...
Thanks to Assistant District Attorney John Paul Bezerra of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit for helping secure justice in a case involving a defendant accused of committing a non-fatal shooting that stemmed from a domestic dispute. On the evening of October 4, 2020, the defendant...
The chart below generated by the District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab highlights the number of incidents reported by the public to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from May 1, 2021, to October 31, 2022. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests made...