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DATA Snapshot: Incidents, Arrests, and Charges — April 2023

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 August 1, 2022, to January 31, 2023. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests...

For the Commonwealth: Assistant District Attorney Vilma Cubias

Thanks to Assistant District Attorney Vilma Cubias, Assistant Supervisor of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit, for helping secure justice in a case involving a defendant accused of breaking into a woman’s private residence and sexually...

For the Commonwealth: Assistant District Attorney Keion Cook

Thanks to Assistant District Attorney Keion Cook (currently of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Carjacking Enforcement Unit) for helping secure justice in a case involving a defendant accused of committing armed robbery in a store on the 2500 block of Girard Avenue in March 2022....

DATA Snapshot: Incidents, Arrests, and Charges — March 2023

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...

DATA Story: Inquirer’s Historical Dataset Offers 50-Year Lookback at Philadelphia Courts

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...

For the Commonwealth: Assistant District Attorney Alexander Blumenthal

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...

DATA Snapshot: Incidents, Arrests, and Charges — February 2023

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...

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