Philadelphia is on track to record its lowest number of annual homicides in six decades, as well as declines in shootings, assaults, retail thefts and most other serious crimes compared to last year.
The Philadelphia Police Department reports there were 220 homicides in 2025 as of Tuesday night, fewer than the most recent low of 246 in 2013. The count hasn’t been so low since 1966, when there were 178 homicides.
The figures extend a local and national trend of declining crime since the pandemic-era peak in 2021, when 562 people were killed in Philadelphia…