City recaps comprehensive efforts to Reduce Violence throughout 2022

PHILADELPHIA, December 20, 2022 – City officials recapped comprehensive efforts to reduce violence, including the Police Department’s efforts at enhancing public safety, along with the critical violence prevention and intervention work by the Office of Criminal Justice and Public Safety (CJPS).

In addition, focused on reducing gun violence in communities where the need is greatest, Mayor Jim Kenney and the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) announced that, starting on Monday, January 9, 2023, the Department will redeploy at least 100 additional officers in neighborhoods currently experiencing the highest rates of gun crime in the city.

The new initiative, is coupled with a recently-completed realignment of the Department’s Operation Pinpoint, which is based on data identifying violence “hotspots” across Philadelphia. Together, these measures will boost police presence and target high-risk offenders and potential victims in the four police districts that cumulatively account for 43 percent of gun violence in Philadelphia this year: The 22nd District and 24th District in North Philadelphia; the 25th District in Kensington and North Philadelphia; and the 39th District in Germantown. Over the next several months, PPD will be realigning the Operation Pinpoint strategy in phases, and community members can expect to see an increased police presence in realigned Pinpoint areas.

The initiative represents one of the largest redeployments of police officers to select patrol districts in recent years.