CHESTER, PA, September 17, 2025 — At a conference held at Chester Police Headquarters, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer and Chester Mayor Stefan Roots highlighted the progress made in the Chester Partnership for Safe Neighborhoods since its inception in 2020.
Scoop covered this initiative from the beginning, as the then newly elected District Attorney Stollsteimer partnered with public officials, community stakeholders, and residents to tackle the problematic issues of crime and violence that faced the City of Chester at that time. Stollsteimer brought the same collaborative, data-driven, community initiative to the City of Chester that was employed when he was a federal prosecutor.
Governor Shapiro, who was the Attorney General at that time, was the partner that Stollsteimer sought out and brought in to create the Chester Partnership for Safe Neighborhoods initially. “Governor Shapiro said he was all in, and let me tell you, when he says he’s all, he’s all in. He’s provided leadership and resources. We got a detective from the Attorney General’s Gun Violence Task Force. We got State Police when we were critically short of police officers in Chester. Thank you so much, Colonel, and also with the help of Senator John Kane, who gave us 2.6 million in PCCD money to help us fund all the work, community projects, and all of the law enforcement work that brings this all together,” Stollsteimer remarked…