communities – The Temp

Inside Temple PD’s Staffing Shortage

Grace Rufalo — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000

America is in the middle of a cop crunch–police officers are resigning their positions in droves, and the Temple University Police Department is no exception. But TUPD’s predicament comes with a twist: A growing number of Owl officers are flying the coop to work for the Philadelphia police. In this feature from our Fall 2023 episode, Grace was on the case. The Temp’s Grace Rufalo detailed…

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What Will Bus Revolution Mean for Philadelphia?

Jadon George — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:32:09 +0000

Of all the proposed changes to public transit in Philadelphia in the spring of 2021, almost none reach as far into Philadelphians’ lives as “Bus Revolution.” SEPTA hasn’t revised its bus lines wholesale since the Johnson administration; the new plan, they say, lets the authority adjust its system to the ways the city has changed in the last six decades. But the redesign reroutes the vast…

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