The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab has published three data stories covering shooting clearance and arrest rates and recent changes to our monthly Incidents-Arrests-Charges graphics. In 2021, Philadelphia has seen record-breaking gun violence, but a large...
PHILADELPHIA (December 27, 2021) – The District Attorney’s Office (DAO) on Monday charged SEPTA Transit Police Officer Floyd Whitaker (DOB: 2/10/1962) of Laurel Springs, N.J., for his role in a Taser assault of an unarmed passenger. At approximately 4:00 a.m. on April 12, 2021, a...
PHILADELPHIA (December 22, 2021) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Wednesday issued the following statement on the armed robbery of Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon: “First, I am extremely grateful that Congresswoman Scanlan and an aide who was accompanying her were not physically harmed...
PHILADELPHIA (December 22, 2021) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Wednesday issued the following statement on the shooting of a Philadelphia Police officer responding to a robbery Tuesday night:“I join Philadelphians in wishing this brave officer a swift and full recovery from his...
PHILADELPHIA (December 15, 2021) – The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab this week completed a technological update that will improve accuracy of information about crime and justice in Philadelphia for the benefit of law enforcement and criminal legal system...
PHILADELPHIA (December 13, 2021) – District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday announced the arrest and charging of an individual alleged to be responsible for a violent incident over the summer in which several dozen bullets were fired in a residential neighborhood, leaving three people wounded and...
PHILADELPHIA (December 9, 2021) – District Attorney Larry Krasner today issued the following statement: “I know that some inarticulate things I said earlier this week have offended people. The message conveyed through media sound bites is not at all what I meant. Complete answers based on data...
PHILADELPHIA (December 6, 2021) — District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday announced charges against Tyrone Patterson (DOB: 5/12/1999) for the alleged straw purchases of three firearms that investigators believe were later used in the commission of crimes by a violent street group operating in...
PHILADELPHIA (November 24, 2021) — District Attorney Larry Krasner on Wednesday issued the following statement on the public health and safety crises of violence and preventable deaths: “As we approach the new year, a bloody and heartbreaking measure of our national and local gun violence spike...
PHILADELPHIA (November 10, 2021) — The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has unanimously decided that the City of Philadelphia, through its agent the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD), must provide officer misconduct information to the District Attorney’s Office, as required by the U.S....