page_title: Philadelphia Police Department
section_title: Present day
hierarchical_section_title: Philadelphia Police Department / Present day
caption_attribution_description: The Philadelphia Police Administration Building at 700 Race Street between N. 7th and N. 8th Street near the Chinatown neighborhood of Philadelphia, nicknamed "The Roundhouse", was built 1963 and was designed by Geddes, Brecher, Qualls &amp; Cunningham in the Brutalist style. In 2013 a plan to tear it down was announced and preservationists began a campaign to save it. (Sources: Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City and news story)
context_page_description: The Philadelphia Police Department is the police agency responsible for law enforcement and investigations within the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PPD is one of the oldest municipal police agencies, fourth largest police force and sixth largest non-federal law enforcement agency in the United States. Since records were first kept in 1828, at least 289 PPD officers have died in the line of duty.
  The Philadelphia Police Department is prominent for a history of patterns of police brutality, intimidation, coercion, and disregard for constitutional rights, particularly during the tenure of Frank Rizzo as police commissioner and mayor. The patterns of police brutality were documented in a 1978 Pulitzer-Prize winning Philadelphia Inquirer series by William K. Marimow and Jon Neuman.
context_section_description: The PPD employs over 6,400 sworn officers and over 800 civilian personnel, and patrols an area of 369.4 km² (142.6 mi²) with a population of almost 1.5 million. The department is subdivided into 21 patrol districts, and like many other large municipal police forces, it incorporates many special units such as a K-9 squad, SWAT, bomb squad, community relations unit, and marine unit.  The highest-ranking officer is Commissioner Danielle Outlaw.
caption: Philadelphia Police Department Headquarters known as "The Roundhouse", designed by Robert Geddes of the firm GBQC
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