Volatility: After 200 people were shot during January in Philadelphia, the total for the first week of February dropped to 21. Then, seven people were shot and killed on Monday alone. Read More
Last month 200 people were shot in Philadelphia. Last year, 113 shooting victims were recorded during January. From 2005 through 2019, the city’s average shooting victim total during the month of January was 88. Read More
Police reported 61 shooting victims in Philadelphia during the seven-day period ending Sunday; up from 43 recoded during each of the previous two weeks. Last year, 113 people were shot during the entire month of January in Philadelphia. Read More
Making year-to-date comparisons can result in dramatic day-to-day fluctuations this early in a new year. Check the 365-day tracker on our Philadelphia Shooting Victims dashboard to spot long-term trends. Read More
New resource: You can now find this 48-month chart of Philadelphia shooting victims, based on police data and updated each month, under the PHL tab on our home page. Last month, 181 people were shot in the city. Read More
Police are reporting 181 shooting victims in Philadelphia during December, down slightly from the previous month but still 66 percent above the average victim total seen during the same month over the past five years. Altogether, police recorded 2,251 shooting victims in Philadelphia during 2020, a 53 percent increase over the previous year. At least 402 shooting victims died during 2020, representing a 33 percent increase over the previous year. Read More
Jim MacMillan is the founder and director of the Philadelphia the Center for Gun Violence Reporting. The Center is a project of the Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting, which he launched in 2019, during his residential fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri. Read More
Police report that 49 people were shot in Philadelphia during the seven-day period ending Sunday; the highest weekly total since November and up from 38 people shot during the previous week. This final installment of their 52-week report counts 2,222 shooting victims since December 30 of last year, amounting to an average of one person shot every four hours of every day since. Read More
Complications from the COVID-19 pandemic haven’t been helping and the epidemic of gun violence continues to expand at unprecedented rates but the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting has continued making steady progress during our first six months. Read More
Philadelphia’s weekly shooting victim total climbed back up to 38 for the week ending Sunday. The latest police update reports 2,173 shooting victims over the past 51 weeks; up 53.6 percent vs. the same period during 2019. Read More
Latest Philadelphia data • Police reported 31 shooting victims in Philadelphia during the week ending Sunday, representing the lowest weekly total since mid-June. The year-to-date total of 2,135 shooting victims is running 53 percent ahead Read More
Latest Philadelphia data • Police reported 464 homicides in Philadelphia through Monday night, up 39 percent from the same period last year and more than double the pace recorded in 2013. [PhillyPolice.com] New research • Read More
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