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Newsby Staff WriterJune 9, 2016

Ex-Finalist for Top Cop Job Picked to Oversee Police Reforms in Chicago

Now Anne Kirkpatrick will still play a vital role in department reforms after Johnson appointed the 30-year law enforcement veteran to oversee the extensive overhaul as chief of the Bureau of Professional Standards

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 9, 2016

Chicago Man Holds News Conference on Suing Police, Gets Nabbed for Murder Immediately After

Moments after Dominiq Greer held a news conference Wednesday to announce a lawsuit seeking $15 million from the city, he was arrested on a murder warrant as he waited for a ride.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 3, 2016

Chicago Releases Video, Audio from Dozens of Officer-Involved Shootings

The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police union called the move by the city "irresponsible" and said the release of information of ongoing investigations could potentially be in violation of officers' collective bargaining agreement.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 30, 2016

2 Chicago Officers Hospitalized After Man Sets Self on Fire at Festival

Two Chicago police officers were injured Sunday evening after a man attending a festival set himself and a building on fire in the city's Heart of Chicago neighborhood.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 10, 2016

Chicago Police Making Fewest Drug Arrests in Decades

Chicago Police are on pace to make 13,000 narcotics arrests by year’s end. That would be the smallest annual tally since 1973, two years after President Richard Nixon declared a national war on drugs.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 6, 2016

Illinois State's Attorney Requests Special Prosecutor in Laquan McDonald Shooting

In a surprise change of heart, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez dropped her opposition Thursday to a special prosecutor in the killing of Laquan McDonald and said her office would withdraw from the bombshell case.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 6, 2016

Video: Police Pursuits Have Killed 108 People in Chicago Area in Last 10 Years

In the majority of cases, it’s not the fleeing driver or fleeing passengers who are getting killed or injured: It’s a pursuing officer or – most often – an innocent bystander.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 21, 2016

Mayor Says Chicago to Immediately Implement Some Police Bias Task Force Reforms

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Thursday that the city will immediately implement about one-third of the recommendations from a scathing police accountability task force report that charged the nation's second-largest police department was beset by systemic racism.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 15, 2016

Chicago FOP Chief Slams Incendiary Police Racism Report for "Bias"

The president of the largest Chicago police union on Thursday blasted a new report that recommends broad reforms within the department, calling the report one-sided and unfair to officers.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 14, 2016

Video: Mayor Acknowledges Racism in Chicago Police Department

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel left open the possibility Wednesday of dismantling the city's police oversight agency and acknowledged that racism is a problem within the police force and other City Hall departments.

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