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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 30, 2018

Chicago Officers Rush Into Burning Home Looking for Residents

The officers pushed through thick smoke filling the two flats. They checked under beds, on the porch, and in the basement before running to safety themselves.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 3, 2018

2 IL Cities to Pay Nearly $13 Million Over Pursuit-Related Deaths

Ten months later, and less than 5 miles away, off-duty Chicago police Officer David Harris, 42, was driving home after a late shift at work when he, too, died when a speeding car plowed into his vehicle at a South Side intersection.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 29, 2017

Disciplinary Board Rules Chicago Officer’s Fatal OIS Unjustified

The agency concluded that a “reasonable officer” would not have believed he was in danger of death or serious injury.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 26, 2017

New Chicago PD Policy Discourages Using Tasers on People Who Flee

The Chicago Police Department has tightened its policy on Taser use, rewriting the rules to discourage officers from shocking people who are running away or otherwise vulnerable to injury.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 19, 2017

Off-Duty Chicago Officer Shoots Man Attempting to Carjack Him, Police Say

Police say Hendricks and another person approached the officer as he sat in his personal car around 6:30 p.m. Monday. The other person tapped on the passenger side window to distract the officer while Hendricks went to the driver’s side, pulled a gun and demanded the car, police said.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 19, 2017

Chicago Officer Named CNN Hero of the Year

Maddox started Future Ties, a non-profit after-school program dedicated to helping kids who live in the Parkway Gardens housing complex in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 12, 2017

Chicago Police Union Official Says Lawyers Using City Council as "Blank Check" Over Wrongful Convictions

Fraternal Order of Police Vice President Martin Preib spoke during the public comment portion of the City Council Finance Committee meeting, where aldermen approved the money for the four men who each spent some 15 years in prison for a 1994 rape and murder before DNA linked the crime to a convicted killer.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 17, 2017

Off-Duty Chicago Officer Stabbed while Driving Crashes into School Bus

The officer, 47, was stabbed in the head in a domestic attack and taken in serious condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was stabilized, police said.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 16, 2017

IL State's Attorney Dismisses 18 Convictions Involving Former Chicago Sergeant

It comes two months after lawyers for the 15 men filed a joint petition seeking to overturn a total of 18 criminal drug convictions, alleging that Watts and his crew framed all of them between 2003 and 2008. Watts and an officer under his command were sent to federal prison in 2013.

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 15, 2017

Video: Chicago Police Lieutenant Rallies Volunteers to Refurbish Veteran’s Newsstand

Chicago Police Lieutenant John Garrido connected with Anthony about a year ago and decided to give Anthony a better place to sell his newspapers.

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