Philadelphia Homicide Tracker – a project of Broad + Liberty
After running the homicide tracker for a full 21 months, Broad + Liberty has decided to close this project.
The data remains accessible below, and we hope it was a benefit to many while the project was operational.
If you have questions or concerns about the data already collected and published below, or if you have other questions about the tracker, please contact tshepherd @ broadandliberty.com.
LAST UPDATED: 01:45 p.m., Aug. 01, 2024.
ARCHIVE: 2023 tracker, 2023 tracking map
Reference number: A number generated to keep each entry in the tracker distinct.
Crime date: The date the violence was believed to have been perpetrated, if applicable, (which is to say, a found body might not have a crime date).
Body found date: This column exists to make distinctions between homicides discovered immediately in which the crime date is known, versus homicides that might be a found body in which the crime date is unsure or unknown.
Type: Homicide, suspicious death, or found body.
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Thank you for this service – and my I also suggest that you link the City Controller’s Office site for this as well
https://controller.phila.gov/philadelphia-audits/mapping-gun-violence
It give you an interactive map that details location and other demographics, it does not however include the infamous use of “S – jobs”
This information tends to be “hidden in plain sight” by the current administration, and the electronic media (channels 3, 6, 10, 17, & 29) in this city spends more time on traffic and weather in each broadcast than it does on this issue.
Will this display how many are committed using guns vs. any other method or is that still verboten to mention?
Yes, it has from the beginning (scroll to the right on the chart).
Cicero
When I was young we used to say “if brains were dynamite you couldn’t blow your nose”. I sincerely hope you don’t catch a cold.
Cato
Thank you for this. As a veteran police officer in the city, it disgusts me the way the department hides homicides. The “suspicious” and “other” deaths – which many are likely inconvenient murders. We used to have to report to the FBI with updated statistics, but since the FBI lost its way, no one cares about legitimate counts anymore.
From what I’ve seen in the inconsistent numbers and what I’ve seen on the street, I would wager we were closer to 600 than 500.
The very first homicide listed, of a 31-year-old black mail in the 3000 block of Clifford Street is not listed in the city’s shooting victims database, even though the wounding of a second person in the incident is listed. The killing of a 34-year-old black male on the 1600 block of Dyre Street is listed as a shooting, but not a fatality.
The shooting of the 34-year-old male in the 1600 block of Dyre Street is now listed as a fatality. However, of the three reported killed yesterday, only two are listed in the city’s shooting victims database, as of 12:20 PM EST on Tuesday, January 10th.
If this can be made into a widget that other websites could link, I would certainly be happy to put it on mine, and I’d be a whole lot of other bloggers would as well.
Yeah…. You might not want to count on Broad and Liberty for accurate information on… well… anything.
If anything the info currently shown is actually more beneficial to the City than what is on the City Comptroller’s site.
Given that they are citing their sources, and you can click on the citations, yeah, I’ll trust them.
The homicide on New Year’s Day, in the 3100 block of Clifford Street, is still not listed in the city’s shooting victims database, even though the man shot in the same incident, is listed as a non-fatal shooting. The city has finally added the third fatal shooting on Rowland Street to the database. The database lists ten fatal shootings thus far in the year, not the twelve B+L documents.
OK, the Philly Police numbers not equal B+L’s. Does that mean that they have now included the homicides B+L listed for the first and second? Are the lists identical?
Suggestion: the race of the victims have all been listed as black or Latino, but data in the city’s shooting victims database frequently divides that up into white Latino and black Latino; given that Hispanic ethnicity can be any race, I think that a good move. Perhaps that could be done in this database as well?
OK, so rows in orange indicate a difference between B+L’s classification, and the PPDs, but you haven’t told us what the PPD’s classification is.
Easy suggestion: row in orange for suspicious, row in green for body fond, and row in blue for other. Or you can put a red check in the PPD’s classification in the columns.
Everyone comfortable enough to carry conceal, I believe, should. The violence would reduce in a year or so. Bad people with guns will learn quickly not to abuse the privilege of guaranteed freedom in our beautiful city.
This is an extremely helpful tool.
I post the homicide count on my blog, and I noticed today that the department seems to have disabled the crime maps and stats. I’m an active police officer and I cannot get onto the site. Perhaps the city wants to hide more murders?
I always have my head on a swivel when I’m walking in downtown Philadelphia.
It appears a lot of these criminals are caught and released.
Is there anything that the City can do to resolve this problem. It seems like it’s gotten worse under Larry Krasner.
Please help keep us safe!