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The stingy renovation of the Inquirer building is a crime against both police and the public

The new headquarters could have given the Police Department a chance to forge a new culture. Instead, they got a bunker that walls off the force from the city.

The historic Inquirer and Daily News building at Broad and Callowhill Streets has been transformed into a combined headquarters for the police, medical examiner, Office of Emergency Services, and morgue. Although the 1925 building rises 18 stories, most of the new offices are concentrated in the lower seven floors, where the mighty presses once rolled.
The historic Inquirer and Daily News building at Broad and Callowhill Streets has been transformed into a combined headquarters for the police, medical examiner, Office of Emergency Services, and morgue. Although the 1925 building rises 18 stories, most of the new offices are concentrated in the lower seven floors, where the mighty presses once rolled.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
    by Inga Saffron | Columnist, For The Inquirer
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