Are we safer? Sustaining gun violence reductions in Northwest Philly and across the city
Resolve Philly, 2/21/25: “We’ve heard the news – homicides are significantly down (many of which involve firearms) in the city of Philadelphia in the last year. And it’s a national trend.
According to the Philadelphia Police Department’s crime statistics map, 27 shooting incidents have occurred in the 14th district, where most of Germantown resides, in the last 90 days, as of February 19, 2025.
At the beginning of the year, the Philadelphia Inquirer talked to leaders all over the city about the reductions and what it would take to sustain it. Themes of access to opportunities for young people, perpetrators of crime in prison, and community programs that bring hope to their neighborhoods were mentioned. But they all knew that the work couldn’t stop.
Germantown Info Hub talked to four community leaders in Northwest Philly about these gun violence trends.
They shared reflections on whether people felt safer, how gun violence can continue to be reduced, and what it would take to sustain a significant impact in our neighborhoods on gun violence.”