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Looting exploded overnight in Philadelphia for a second time this week, with six people arrested. At least eight businesses — including a Walgreens, a Family Dollar, Auto Zone and a smoke shop ...
Philadelphia's looting spree comes amid a nationwide surge in organized retail crime, compounding the financial losses that big box U.S. retailers are experiencing as a result of weakening co
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Streets in Center City were closed to traffic. Looting and destruction continued in Center City and spread to other parts of the city including Northeast Philadelphia, North Philadelphia, and West Philadelphia. [22] [23] Police cars were set on fire in West Philadelphia. [21] A curfew went into effect at 6 p.m. [22]
On October 26 Walter Wallace Jr. was killed by Philadelphia police officers while holding a knife and ignoring orders to drop it. A march for Wallace occurred in West Philadelphia, while other areas of the city reported looting and vandalism. [106]
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In 1964, North Philadelphia was the city's center of African-American culture, and home to 400,000 of the city's 600,000 black residents. [2] The Philadelphia Police Department had tried to improve its relationship with the city's black community, assigning police to patrol black neighborhoods in teams of one black and one white officer per squad car and having a civilian review board to ...
The ugly scenes coming out of Philadelphia are symptomatic of a broader trend. Retail theft is a $112-billion-a-year problem, according to a 2023 retail security survey by the National Retail ...