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Comedy and crime fighting: Philly officers learn improv tricks for social skills
Philadelphia police officers took part in a new course that aims to change the culture of policing and improve community connections through the art of improv with teachers from Chicago’s storied Second City improv theater.
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How Philly police draw on personal experiences to respond to mental health crises
On a frigid February morning, Vanity Cordero, a Philadelphia police officer, heard a call over the radio for a man threatening to jump from a bridge. The details sounded familiar. When Cordero arrived, she realized she’d met him months earlier on the same bridge, where she talked him down by engaging him in conversation about his family and by...
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Philadelphia City Council Releases Poverty Reduction Plan
The Philadelphia City Council has unveiled initiatives aimed at reducing the number of people living in poverty in the city by 25%. The hope is to lift at least 100,000 people out of poverty by 2024. A special committee released its poverty action plan Tuesday. It proposes initiatives to address housing, education and guaranteed income for the city’s poorest residents....
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More Than 180 New Jersey Catholic Priests and Deacons Named as Accused Abusers
New Jersey’s five Roman Catholic dioceses listed more than 180 priests Wednesday who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors over a span of several decades, joining more than two dozen other states that have named suspected abusers in the wake of a landmark grand jury report in Pennsylvania last year.
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Naming Names: A Reckoning Is Underway in US Catholic Church
Over the past four months, Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. have released the names of more than 1,000 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children in an unprecedented public reckoning spurred at least in part by a shocking grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania, an Associated Press review has found.
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Callers Saw a Pickup Driving Erratically Before Deadly Church Bus Crash That Killed 13 People
Law enforcement officials in two Texas counties say they received phone calls about a person in a white pickup truck driving erratically shortly before a deadly collision between a church bus and a pickup left 13 people dead.
