Crime in Philadelphia

• The Philadelphia Police Department is the police department.
• The Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County is the state trial court.
• The Philadelphia District Attorney is the district attorney.
• The Defender Association of Philadelphia is the government-funded independent public defender office.

  Notable cases and incidents

• Philadelphia Election Riot
• Lombard Street Riot - Three-day race riot.
• Philadelphia Nativist Riots
• The Schuylkill Rangers - criminal gang - see Jimmy Haggerty
• Kidnapping of Charley Ross.
• Willie Sutton "The Robin Hood of Brooklyn" - Robbed most Philadelphia Banks, some twice, captured and tunneled out of Eastern State Penitentiary was recaptured and sent to Holmesburg Prison which he subsequently escaped from by ladder.
• Philadelphia Poison Ring - At least 70 people poisoned with arsenic, several by their wives.
• Philadelphia 1964 race riot
• Marie Noe - Murdered eight of her children.
• Boy in the Box - Unidentified five-year-old boy found dead in a cardboard box.
• Dolores Della Penna – 1972 abduction and dismemberment of Tacony teenager remains unsolved.
• Carl Gugasian - "The Friday Night Bank Robber" - Perhaps the most successful in American history - robbed banks up and down the east coast.
• Joseph Kallinger - Schizophrenic Serial Murderer.
• Ira Einhorn, "The Unicorn Killer" - Popular counterculture figure killed his girlfriend and hid her body in his closet.
• Ed Savitz - Sexual predator thought to have abused hundreds of teenage boys.
• Mumia Abu-Jamal - Convicted for the murder of PPD officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.
• Joseph Kindler - Serial burglar convicted of 1982 murder, sentenced to death, escaped prison twice, extradited from Canada.
• MOVE - Activist group which clashed with the PPD, resulting in the police's purposeful destruction of 65 homes in Cobb's Creek neighborhood.
• Frankford Slasher - Thought to have killed several women. Never caught, though a prime suspect referred to only as 'The Minister' was known to police.
• Gary M. Heidnik - Kidnapped, imprisoned, raped, and tortured six women, two of whom he murdered.
• Harrison Graham - Killed seven women.
• Raymond Carter - Convicted of killing Robert "Puppet" Harris; verdict overturned in 1996 due to likelihood of false testimony.
• 39th District corruption scandal - Police corruption which led to the overturning of 160-300 cases and release of 100 prisoners.
• Eddie Polec murder case
• Troy Graves "Center City Rapist" - Committed five rapes and one murder
• Lex Street Massacre - 7 people were murdered in a crack house.
• Murder of Jason Sweeney - 16 year old murdered by his friends for his paycheck.
• City Hall corruption scandal - mayor's office bugged by FBI, several convictions resulting.
• Kermit Gosnell - Abortion doctor convicted of killing newborns.
• Earl Bradley - Pediatrician charged with hundreds of sex crimes against children.
• Philadelphia basement kidnapping, October 2011, an ongoing investigation into alleged kidnapping of four mentally disabled adults, who were held in a Northeast Philadelphia basement.

  Homicides

Organized crime

• Philadelphia crime family - An Italian American group based in South Philadelphia as well as cities in New Jersey such as Atlantic City and Newark; largest organized crime unit in the area.
• K&A Gang - Based in Kensington, Philadelphia. One of the largest Irish American gangs in the country.
• Philadelphia Greek Mob
• Black Mafia and Junior Black Mafia - An African-American group based in West Philadelphia.
• Warlocks Motorcycle Club - A motorcycle club involved in drug dealing

  Documentaries

• Law and Disorder in Philadelphia, 2008
• The Fear of 13, 2015