Mayor Parker's Goal: Make Philadelphia the safest big city in America.
Background: She demonstrated her commitment to enhancing Philadelphia’s safety and her refusal to accept the status quo by appointing Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel. She followed this by selecting Adam Geer as her Chief Public Safety Director. Together, Commissioner Bethel and Director Geer are spearheading Mayor Parker’s approach to a prevention, intervention, and enforcement strategy. Mayor Parker’s administration will continue to work to make Philadelphia a place where each of us, in every neighborhood, home, or city street, feels safe and able to thrive.
Continue readingMayor Parker's Goal: Make Philadelphia the safest big city in America.
Background: She demonstrated her commitment to enhancing Philadelphia’s safety and her refusal to accept the status quo by appointing Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel. She followed this by selecting Adam Geer as her Chief Public Safety Director. Together, Commissioner Bethel and Director Geer are spearheading Mayor Parker’s approach to a prevention, intervention, and enforcement strategy. Mayor Parker’s administration will continue to work to make Philadelphia a place where each of us, in every neighborhood, home, or city street, feels safe and able to thrive.
Project Concept: Working with the Philadelphia Police Department, Granicus and Be Present Consulting strive to address a gap between declining crime data and how safe residents actually feel. The core objective is to help the department systematically listen to residents—especially in neighborhoods with historic distrust—capture real-time and ongoing sentiment about safety and trust, and make that input visible, actionable, and connected to leadership decisions. This effort is not about one-off surveys or reactive communications; it is about creating a credible, transparent way for communities to be heard and for the department to demonstrate how feedback informs action, particularly during moments of tension or misinformation.
Practically, this starts with a short-term pilot and discovery phase focused on assessment, community listening, and trust framework development, blending grassroots engagement with digital communications, feedback collection and sentiment analysis tools with visualized enterprise-level reporting.
Over time, the goal is to scale this into a repeatable, sustainable trust-building model: a shared “source of truth” for sentiment and engagement, measurable indicators of trust, district-level accountability, and institutionalized practices that outlast any single leader or initiative.
Success is not pre-determined. It will emerge through an ongoing community-engaged process that centers community voices, builds on local strengths, and reflects what matters most to those directly impacted.
