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The focus on police reforms is part of what appears to be a last-ditch effort by the Biden administration to take action on some of Biden's signature initiatives in the run-up to his State of the Union Address on March 1.
Read More →Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara has officially retired from the Chicago Police Department. He will continue as head of the police union and says he wants to run for mayor in 2023.
Read More →John Catanzara is the head of the Fraternal Order of Police. This is not the first time that he has been in trouble with the agency.
Read More →Jim Murray is one of roughly 40 officers who have been stripped of their police powers and put in no-pay status for refusing to report their vaccination status.
Read More →John McNesby, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5, the union that represents the officers, said he welcomed the news. “These Tasers will be another nonlethal option that we hope will keep officers and the public safe,” he said.
Read More →According to city data, there was a total of 12,258 sworn personnel as of June 2021, down from 13,218 two years ago.
Read More →Most of the officers were assigned to CPD headquarters in Bronzeville, according to John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, the union that represents rank-and-file officers.
Read More →Investigators from the FBI descended on the office as part of an investigation into the union, which is headed union president Ed Mullins.
Read More →Among the issues that lawmakers were discussing were changes to "qualified immunity" that protects police officers from some lawsuits.
Read More →FOP President Sgt. Tommy Reyes said, “People demoted for no reason, a captain was rolled back to lieutenant for no reason at all and discipline has been handed it out like he was giving out Halloween candy.”
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