Assistant District Attorneys Eamon Kenny and Kara Heininger of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit helped secure justice at a recent sentencing for a defendant who was found guilty by a jury of sexually assaulting his daughter. Kenny and Heininger successfully argued that the defendant be...
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 November 1, 2021, to April 30, 2022. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests...
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Crisis Assistance, Response, & Engagement for Survivors (CARES) Unit, which provides trauma-informed support to co-victims of homicide, observes International Peace Month in its August 2022 newsletter. This latest edition also includes a message from...
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 October 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests made...
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Crisis Assistance, Response, & Engagement for Survivors (CARES) Unit, which provides trauma-informed support to co-victims of homicide, observes LGBTQIA+ Awareness Month in its June 2022 newsletter. Educate yourself and others about the epidemic of...
By Mikayla Smith, Research Assistant, DAO DATA Lab Casey Morrison and Lauren Laino, Research Interns, DAO DATA Lab Prosecutors utilize discretion when they decide whether or not to file charges, the type of charges to file, the cases for which they will seek to negotiate pleas, and what concessions...
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 September 1 to February 28, 2022. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests made...