The initiative, launched in partnership with the nonprofit Philly Truce, places its Peace Patrol members on the Broad Street Line and Market-Frankford Line.
Councilmember Rue Landau first proposed the new law. She hopes it makes it easier for people to move into apartments without spending thousands of dollars up front.
Philadelphia police are looking for up to a dozen masked men in four separate vehicles who made off with large amount of frozen meat from a tractor trailer.
The officer survived a shot that likely ricocheted off his ballistic vest, but the attorney for the accused shooter maintains the case isn't as "open and shut" as it may seem.