Policing and mental health: Experts call Philly’s new 911 script a good idea, but too long
Social workers, medical workers, former police officers, and crisis response professionals on the new PPD dispatch flowchart.
Walter Wallace Jr.
Despite national outcry, Philly police slow to implement mental health crisis reforms
It’s been six months since officers fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr. while responding to a 911 call.
Mayor Kenney, City Council advance on $14 million Taser buy for Philly police
The proposed five-year contract for thousands of electronic weapons comes less than a month after Walter Wallace Jr.’s shooting.
How mental health pros intervene on a 911 call — what didn’t happen for Walter Wallace Jr.
If there is a weapon involved, "people feel comfortable enough to relinquish [it]," a local crisis response expert said.
Opinion: Funding police is not the answer to the crisis that killed Walter Wallace Jr.
More Tasers will not help solve ongoing divestment in Black Philadelphia, the cofounder of the Amistad Law Project argues.
‘Shoot him’: Body camera footage shows officers who shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr.
Neither officer has more than three years experience in the PPD. At request of the Wallace family, the video was lightly redacted, but it is still extremely disturbing.
What can and can’t you do during Philly’s overnight curfew?
The rules are slightly different from last spring.
After Wallace shooting, Philly police seek $14 million for Tasers while overtime costs pile up
The PPD says it can't afford to outfit officers with stun guns. Meanwhile, OT has ballooned 40%.
Philly police rebuffed offers from crisis response center to work together, director says
The department has a clear “disconnect” in terms of mental health resources, Commissioner Outlaw said.
How viral police shooting videos can mess with your mental health
If watching feels necessary or inevitable, there are methods to cope.
A parade of promises at West Philly community meeting, and Walter Wallace’s family walks out
“We are not at war,” said the police commissioner, a day after two officers shot and killed a Black man.
Everything we know about the police killing of West Philly’s Walter Wallace Jr.
The 27-year-old was shot dead in front of his mother and neighbors.