It’s a policy used by police departments in major cities across the United States. It’s also a legal practice under a 1986 Supreme Court decision to establish “reasonable suspicion” as a standard lower than the
More than 100 Philadelphia school students participated in the city’s first 24-hour chess tournament last weekend, aimed at providing an alternative to violence. Half of the participants spent Friday night playing informal games in the
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey took the floor at a University of Pennsylvania class Thursday afternoon and addressed a room packed with students about the media’s role in public safety. After a five-minute introduction of himself
It took three attacks and a funeral to increase security on Philadelphia’s sole public transportation system. The subway attacks of March 26, April 2 and April 4 occurred within blocks of each other – some