{"id":487814,"date":"2026-01-02T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/487814\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:04:12","slug":"inside-story-philadelphias-domestic-violence-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/487814\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Story Philadelphia&#8217;s Domestic Violence Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WPVI logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wpvi.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, January 2, 2026 7:43PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">6abc Studios (WPVI) &#8212; While 2025 was a good year for Philadelphia with a big reduction in homicides (down 15%-18%), the City has also seen a spike in domestic violence with in increase of 20% in reported cases.  On Inside Story <strong class=\"vtkaO \">Joanna Otero-Cruz<\/strong>, the Executive Director of Women Against Abuse, and <strong class=\"vtkaO \">Adam Geer<\/strong>, Philadelphia&#8217;s Chief Public Safety Officer, joined <strong class=\"vtkaO \">Tamala Edwards<\/strong> as Newsmakers to discuss the crisis and the efforts actively underway to reduce the violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If you or someone you know is involved in domestic violence as either a victim or the assailant, call Philadelphia&#8217;s Domestic Violence Hotline &#8211; <strong class=\"vtkaO \">866-723-3014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Also in the program, the panelists look at a higher minimum wage in New Jersey and the inauguration and promises of new New York Mayor Zorhan Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Join <strong class=\"vtkaO \">Tamala Edwards<\/strong>, along with <strong class=\"vtkaO \">Christine Flowers<\/strong>,<strong class=\"vtkaO \"> Sharmain Matlock-Turner<\/strong>, <strong class=\"vtkaO \">Rich Negrin<\/strong> and <strong class=\"vtkaO \">Brian Tierney<\/strong>, Sunday morning at 11:30 on Inside Story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, January 2, 2026 7:43PM 6abc Studios (WPVI) &#8212; While 2025 was a good year for Philadelphia with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":487815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[220177,12086,5229,32551,112321,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-487814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-220177","9":"tag-12086","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-domestic-violence","12":"tag-inside-story","13":"tag-pa","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115827302004756195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}