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Chicago man indicted for carjacking, kidnapping drivers, federal prosecutors say

March 10, 2023 at 11:30 p.m.

A 28-year-old Chicago man was indicted on charges alleging he had kidnapped three drivers, and he was previously indicted on a charge of sexually abusing one of them, federal prosecutors...

Police work the scene where an officer was shot near the 5200 block of South Spaulding Avenue on March 1, 2023, in Chicago.

Accused shooter of slain Chicago police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso ordered held without bond

March 4, 2023 at 12:21 a.m.

Late in the afternoon Wednesday, Steven Montano, 18, threatened to get his gun while arguing with his girlfriend, then grabbed her phone to stop her from calling 911, prosecutors alleged...

Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability interim president Anthony Driver Jr. speaks during a board meeting at Kennedy King College in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood on Oct. 27, 2022.

Voters place 62 on new Chicago police councils

March 2, 2023 at 5:36 p.m.

Chicago voters elected 62 people Tuesday to serve on the city's first civilian police oversight councils, most of whom were supported by the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression....

Frank Chapman, of the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, attends a Brandon Johnson campaign event on Jan. 16, 2023.

For the 1st time ever, Chicago voters will elect police councils. Here’s what it means for communities.

February 28, 2023 at 4:10 p.m.

While the nine Chicago mayoral candidates pitch plans to address crime and policing, Chicago voters for the first time in city history will be able to vote for representatives on...

Police investigate the scene of an early morning fatal police shooting in the 3700 block of North Troy Street in Chicago on Feb. 8, 2023.

COPA: ‘Unclear’ if man fatally shot by CPD officers in Irving Park ever fired shots at officers

February 10, 2023 at 6:54 p.m.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability investigators have found that it's unclear if the man who was fatally shot by police early Wednesday on the Northwest Side had fired his...

Brendan Deenihan, then a detective commander, during a news conference at Chicago Police Department headquarters in 2017.

Chicago police chief of detectives to exit the department, according to sources familiar with plans

February 10, 2023 at 4:47 a.m.

Among the most visible leaders of the Chicago Police Department in the past few years, the boss of the detective bureau under Superintendent David Brown intends to leave CPD, according...

CPD non-pursuit policy blamed for ‘ambush’ shooting attack of former culinary student in Lincoln Park, victim’s lawsuit says

February 10, 2023 at 2:00 a.m.

Dakotah Earley, a former culinary student who was shot during an attempted robbery in Lincoln Park last May, is alleging police could have captured the suspect who was engaged in...

Police investigate the scene where a man was fatally shot after exchanging gunfire with Chicago police officers in the 3700 block of North Troy Street on Feb. 8, 2023.

Man killed after exchanging gunfire with Chicago police in Irving Park, top cop says

February 8, 2023 at 5:21 p.m.

Chicago police officers exchanged gunfire with a man, killing him, early Wednesday in the Irving Park neighborhood, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown said at a news conference Wednesday morning. At...

Black Lives Matter supporters gather outside the Chicago police station on 51st Street on June 1, 2020.

Community policing and vote for police district councils becoming a focus of upcoming election, candidates for mayor

February 6, 2023 at 11:00 a.m.

As the nation grapples with the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, and as Chicagoans prepare to vote for mayor Feb. 28, crime remains at or near the list...

Damien Stewart speaks Jan. 31, 2023, at Chicago City Hall about a 2019 case in which he says he was beaten by Chicago police inside a jail lockup.

CPD officer in newly released video of man being beaten while in custody was captured in other viral footage the same year

February 2, 2023 at 2:10 a.m.

One of the two Chicago police officers in a video released this week of a man being beaten while in custody was also captured in footage of a suspect being...

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