"I think it is disheartening that we are at Tuesday after the weekend we had without anyone being charged," Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx told the Tribune in a phone interview. "The feeling that people can do this with impunity makes the work that much more difficult."
Read More →A question for the mayor: If it really is unacceptable, why do you continue to accept it?
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The "strategic deployments" will add 430 officers to five South Side and West Side police districts: Calumet, Gresham, Ogden, Harrison and Austin.
Read More →A court granted the ACLU of Illinois and Black Lives Matter Chicago permission to intervene in the consent decree negotiations.
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Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed a bill on Monday to create a new Illinois Lottery scratch-off game with the proceeds "funding police memorials, support for the families of officers killed or severely injured in the line of duty, and protective vest replacements for officers.
Read More →During the course of the summer program, Junior Deputies develop skills in team leadership, interact one-on-one with law enforcement officers, and are exposed to a rewarding career in the military or law enforcement.
Read More →Kelvin Lett—a former police misconduct investigator for the Chicago Police Department—claimed in a lawsuit filed Sunday that he was fired "after he refused to give false testimony to make a shooting by an officer seem like it was not justified."
Read More →With only eight months with the agency, Officer Chris Kudla had not amassed enough sick days to accommodate all of his chemotherapy sessions. His fellow officers began donating their sick days to Kudla, and soon after word got out, other village employees did the same.
Read More →A police officer suffered a head injury when the patrol car he was driving collided with another vehicle at an intersection early Saturday morning.
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Chicago FOP President Kevin Graham said in a blog post that “activist, one-sided” news media is “ramping up every angle they could muster to paint” the police shooting of Harith Augustus as “unjustified.”
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