Research from Temple University’s Department of Criminal Justice was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog Percolator. Temple’s study, conducted in collaboration with the Philadelphia Police Department, showed that foot patrols reduced violent crime by 22 percent in some of the city’s most dangerous locations. According to researchers, even after accounting for displacement, there were 50 fewer violent crimes last summer in Philadelphia than there would have been without the foot patrols.

March 30, 2010 | Philadelphia Inquirer

The overwhelming police response to recent "flash mob" incidents of youth violence in Philadelphia is a shortsighted response to a breakdown in community institutions, experts said yesterday at a discussion hosted by Rep. Joe Sestak (D., Pa.). "We cannot criminalize all the youth in the black community," said Molefi K. Asante, a professor of African American studies at Temple University. "I really resent that."