The Citizens Police Oversight Commission gives high marks to the Philadelphia Police Department’s internal affairs investigations, but it also found areas for improvement in its first audit of the process. City Hall bureau chief Pat Loeb reports.

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The Citizens Police Oversight Commission gives high marks to the Philadelphia Police Department’s internal affairs investigations, but it also found areas for improvement in its first audit of the process. City Hall bureau chief Pat Loeb reports.
📸: Holli Stephens/KYW Newsradio

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Citizens Police Oversight Commission releases its 1st audit of PPD internal affairs investigations

On Feb. 18, 2021, around 4 a.m., Kahlief Myrick was inside a 7-Eleven along 70th Street near Grovers Avenue, grabbing breakfast with his cousin when detectives say Donald Whittingham entered the store with a woman and tried to start trouble with the teenager, asking Myrick what he was “looking at.”

 KYW's Crime and Justice reporter Kristen Johanson has more. 





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On Feb. 18, 2021, around 4 a.m., Kahlief Myrick was inside a 7-Eleven along 70th Street near Grovers Avenue, grabbing breakfast with his cousin when detectives say Donald Whittingham entered the store with a woman and tried to start trouble with the teenager, asking Myrick what he was “looking at.”
 KYW's Crime and Justice reporter Kristen Johanson has more. 
 
 
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Funding cuts and downsizing over the years have reduced the ranks of Philadelphia school librarians to only a handful. But the school district is hoping to change that with a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant. We get the story from KYW education reporter Mike DeNardo.





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Funding cuts and downsizing over the years have reduced the ranks of Philadelphia school librarians to only a handful. But the school district is hoping to change that with a <a href="https://www.imls.gov/grants/available/laura-bush-21st-century-librarian-program">Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant</a>. We get the story from KYW education reporter Mike DeNardo.
 
 
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Citizens Police Oversight Commission releases its 1st audit of PPD internal affairs investigations

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