video cameras: Philadelphia Metropolis

Fired for All the Right Reasons

Best of VoxPop» So I had a first-time experience the other day. For most of the spring and summer, I was working for a company in University City. It was an easy job. A trained monkey could have done it, aside from the occasional crisis (in which I imagine the monkey would have run about throwing feces, which is not very conducive to getting things fixed -- however rewarding it may be). (Comments)

Creating the New City: Part Two

By Ada Kulesza» Our series on young Philadelphians continues with profiles of Zoe Selzer of the business incubator Green Village; the videographers and multi-media artists who comprise Media Giraffes and a Texas transplant named Lloyd Emelle, also known as 'The Computer Genius." (Comments)

The Stetson Miracle

Just a year ago, John B. Stetson Middle School was in deep trouble. Assaults. Suspensions. Disruptions. Its students among the lowest performing in the city. Labeled "persistently dangerous." The School District of Philadelphia acknowledged as much - and turned over the keys of the mostly Latino school to a charter group, ASPIRA of Pennsylvania. Stetson was a problem child in need of reform school, and that's what it got - reforms and renovations that stretched from fresh paint and new desks to a longer work day for teachers to a strictly enforced code of conduct for students. (Comments)

The 13th District

Crime is down in Philadelphia, but rising in many inner-ring suburbs. In Upper Darby Township, veteran policeman Michael Chitwood is working to stem the tide of crime seeping from the city. Mike Mallowe profiles Chitwood and his efforts in this two-part special report. (Comments)

Eye in the Sky: A New Way to Combat Crime

By Brian James Kirk When it comes to fighting crime, Philadelphia is undergoing a video revolution. Within a few short years, the city is likely to be blanketed by a network of  more than a thousand state-of-the-art, high resolution cameras,... (Comments)