{"id":13938,"date":"2025-10-24T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13938\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:11:07","slug":"the-story-behind-declining-homicides-violent-crimes-in-philadelphia-inside-story-102625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13938\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind declining homicides &#038; violent crimes in Philadelphia &#8211; Inside Story 102625"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, October 24, 2025 5:58PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">6abc Studios (WPVI) &#8212; This Sunday, Host Tamala Edwards interviews David Brown &#8211; Executive Director of the Civic Coalition to Save Lives and Adam Geer &#8211; the City of Philadelphia&#8217;s Chief Public Safety Director on the recent good news of a steep decline in homicides and violent crime in the city in 2024 and 2025.  Listen to how intentional partnerships and resources poured into community-based programs and organizations have made the difference on curbing crime here and is quickly becoming a national model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For more info visit:  <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/savephillylives.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SavePhillyLives.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the Action News Special &#8211; <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/videoClip\/17959660\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Safer City:  From Crisis to Comeback<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Other topics included the Kada Scott Tragedy; an update on the races for Philadelphia District Attorney and New Jersey Governor; how SNAP benefits expiring by November 1st will affect our region; and Brandon Graham returning to the Eagles.  Get the Inside Story with George Burrell, Donna Gentile O&#8217;Donnell, Ajay Raju and Alison Young.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, October 24, 2025 5:58PM 6abc Studios (WPVI) &#8212; This Sunday, Host Tamala Edwards interviews David Brown &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10548,31,10546,10547,69,71,70,50],"class_list":["post-13938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-10548","tag-crime","tag-inside-story","tag-no-ta","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}