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Philadelphia crossed another grim threshold last week with more than 2,000 shooting victims recorded during the previous 365 days for the first time in recent years. Read More

Ten people were killed and 35 more were wounded in Philadelphia gun violence during the three days following the police shooting of Walter Wallace last week. Twenty-two people were shot on October 27 alone. Read More

Philadelphia recorded the 400th homicide of 2020 yesterday, after recently surpassing the 12-month total of 391 people killed during all 365 days of 2007. Read More

Soon, we can expect that the number of people killed so far this year in Philadelphia to surpass the 391 total homicides recorded during all 365 days of 2007, as well as every year since. This year’s homicide rate is presently running 20 percent ahead of the pace set in 2007. Read More

Latest Philadelphia data • Weekend violence drove Philadelphia’s year-to-date homicide victim total to 372, running 39 percent ahead of last year’s pace and 91 percent ahead of the pace recorded in 2013. [Philadelphia Police] • Read More

Last month: 228 people were shot in Philadelphia; down from 275 in August but still 87 percent ahead of the average of 122 shooting victims recorded in the city during the previous five Septembers. Read More

Latest Philadelphia data • Nearly 500 more people have been shot this year in Philadelphia than during the same period last year, including 51 during the seven-day period ending Sunday. Reports of aggravated assaults with Read More

• More than 1,500 people have been wounded or killed by gunfire so far this year in Philadelphia, including 54 last week, at a pace running 46.7 percent ahead of last year. Reports of aggravated assaults with guns are up 38.7 percent, with 2,590 incidents reported this year to date. Read More

• The latest Citywide Major Crimes weekly report indicates that 51 people were shot during the seven-day period ending Sunday. The previous week’s shooting victim total was revised up from 37 to 61. The update brought the city’s year-to-date shooting victim total to 1,448, which represents a 44.9 percent increase vs. the same period last year. Read More

The number of people shot in Philadelphia fell to 37 for the seven-day period ending Sunday, according to the latest Citywide Major Crimes weekly report from the Philadelphia Police Department. Twice as many people were shot two weeks earlier. Read More

The latest data show 235 people shot in Philadelphia during the first 26 days of August, already making it the fourth consecutive record-breaking month in the city’s open data set looking back to January, 2015. An average of 107 people were shot in the city each month during the previous five years, 2015-1019. Read More