Philadelphia police officers have been restricting access to the 3100 block of Weymouth Street in Kensington for weeks after a series of raids targeting suspected drug dealers. Read more Tyger Williams / Staff Photographer

by Chris Palmer and Jesse Bunch Published Nov. 14, 2025, 4:52 p.m. ET

Three weeks after Philadelphia police and federal agents raided Kensington’s Weymouth Street and arrested more than 30 people in what they called the takedown of a decade-old drug trafficking gang, residents and neighbors are still feeling the constant presence of law enforcement.

That’s because Philadelphia police officers have since been stationed at either end of the narrow block 24 hours a day — asking anyone who wants to pass through to show identification, and declining to let p

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