How Kevin Bethel’s ‘strong and direct’ persona and focus on protecting kids made him Philly’s next police commissioner

Former Stoneleigh Fellow and current Board Member Kevin Bethel was featured by The Philadelphia Inquirer in a story about his career before being selected as the city’s next police commissioner.

For a moment, on a mild June evening long ago, a narrow street in South Philadelphia filled with the sound of innocence, the voices of children playing.

Then came gunshots and screams.

A 13-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man had gotten into a fight, and shot at each other on Sigel Street near 22nd. A stray bullet found an even younger victim, 4-year-old Nashay Little. The bullet tore through an artery in the girl’s thigh. She was fortunate to survive.

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