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Video: Chicago Officer Shot, Suspect Killed in Thursday Gunfight

Officers on bicycles were near the Battle of Fort Dearborn Park when a concerned citizen told them there was a man nearby acting erratically, Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in a news conference.

July 22, 2016

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Chicago Officers Use Military Training to Save Shooting Victim

Cabral, an Army veteran, began applying pressure to the man's chest wound. When that failed, he asked Zuniga, who was a Navy veteran, to grab a QuikClot Combat Gauze from the first-aid kit in his vest and used it to control the bleeding until paramedics arrived.

July 8, 2016

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Video: Chicago Officer on Desk Duty Over Use of Force

A Chicago police officer has been placed on desk duty after a video surfaced that appears to show the officer kicking a man in the head on Monday.

June 14, 2016

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Chicago Officer on Desk Duty Over Use of Force

A Chicago police officer has been placed on desk duty after a video surfaced that appears to show the officer kicking a man in the head. More Here.

June 14, 2016

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Chicago Police Plan to Revamp Overtime Program

As Chicago struggles with some of the worst violence it has seen since the 1990s, the Police Department plans on revamping its overtime program that allows a couple of hundred officers each day to work on their days off, officials said.

June 10, 2016

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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

June 9, 2016

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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.

June 9, 2016

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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.

June 3, 2016

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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.

May 30, 2016

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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.

May 10, 2016

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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.

May 6, 2016

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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.

May 6, 2016