Philadelphia is getting $50 million in state grant funding to help three agencies combat rising gun violence.
The Police Department is getting $25 million to modernize and eventually relocate the city's forensic center into a larger space and hire at least 120 more scientists.
The DA's office will receive $20 million to "triple" the size of a digital lab that mostly handles cell phone extractions in criminal cases, assistant district attorney William Fritze tells Axios. The money will also go toward hiring 10 more prosecutors for the office's eight-person gun violence task force.
SEPTA will use its $5 million to bolster staffing levels and potentially expand a new artificial intelligence pilotPolice Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said during the news conference Thursday that the funding is for the long term. It'll allow for quicker forensic analysis of cases, which will reduce backlogs, lead to quicker apprehension of perpetrators or exoneration of innocent people, Outlaw said.
It'll also aid the agency in identifying victims of unsolved cold cases, like the recent case of the "
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