Philadelphia City Paper | Daniel Denvir | News | AAN.org

Video Shows Philly Guard Beat Prisoner, but Prisoner is Chargednew

Prisoner John Steckley looks like he might have been mouthing off as he walked out of the visitors' room at Philadelphia's Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, but he appeared to be posing no physical threat to the guard standing at the door. Even so, the corrections officer coldcocked Steckley in the face and then, along with another guard, proceeded to beat him.

Philadelphia City Paper | Daniel Denvir | 10-30-2014 | Crime & Justice

Tags: prison abuse

Philly Pot Arrest Maps: Black People in Black Neighborhoodsnew

Eighty-three percent of the 4,314 marijuana-possession arrests made by Philly police in 2013 were of African-Americans.

Philadelphia City Paper | Daniel Denvir | 08-15-2014 | Race & Class

Tags: Philadelphia Marijuana Arrests

Dispatches from Killadelphianew

Despite the efforts of thousands of pastors, cops, reformed gangsters, concerned parents and politicians, Philadelphia is consistently among the most violent big cities in a country with the highest murder rate of any wealthy nation on earth.

Philadelphia City Paper | Daniel Denvir, Samantha Melamed and Eric Schneider | 09-30-2013 | Features

Tags: Philadelphia Crime 2013, Philadelphia Homicides 2013

Paywall? Philly Papers' Elusive Effort to Make Journalism Paynew

The long-awaited Inquirer.com and PhillyDailyNews.com are online this week, liberating the dailies from the bikini-and-gossip-coated digital stinkpit of Philly.com and locking content behind pay walls, where readers will finally have to pay for it. Sort of.

Philadelphia City Paper | Daniel Denvir | 04-18-2013 | Media

Tags: Interstate General Media, Philly Inquirer