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Court Keeps Cops' Disciplinary Records Sealed

Chicago Tribune | David Heinzmann | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Diane Bond, Chicago Police Complaint List, Chicago Police Department, Jamie Kalven, Chicago Police Corruption, Chicago Police Misconduct, Chicago News

A two-year legal battle to open up disciplinary records of Chicago police officers suffered a setback today when a panel of federal judges decided to ...

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Court Tossing Challenged Speeding Tickets Over Faulty Radar Guns

Chicago Sun-Times | MARK BROWN | Posted 11.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Speeding Tickets, Cook County Speeding Tickets, Lidar, Chicago Police Department Lidar, Chicago Police Department, Chicago News

It was with some fanfare that the Chicago Police Department announced three years ago that all city police districts were being supplied with high-tec...

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Cop Accused Of Writing False DUI Tickets Has Charges Dismissed

ABC 7 | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: John Haleas, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police, Chicago Police Misconduct, Chicago News

An indictment has been dismissed against a Chicago police officer accused of writing numerous false drunk driving tickets. ...

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City Asking Police, Firefighters To Take Furloughs

Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick and John Byrne | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mayor Daley Budget, Chicago Furlough Days, Police Furloughs, Chicago Fire Department, Mayor Daley, Chicago Budget, Chicago Police Department, Chicago News

Mayor Richard Daley and some aldermen suggested today that police officers and firefighters take off nearly five weeks without pay to cut city spendin...

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Police Board Often Blocks Firing Cops For Misconduct: Study

Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Corruption, Chicago Police Misconduct, Chicago-Police-Board, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police, Chicago News

When Chicago's Police Superintendent wants to fire an officer for misconduct he has to get approval from the Chicago Police Board....

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CPD 2,000 Officers Short Of Full Strength

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Vacancies, O'Hare, Chicago Police Department, O'hare Police Shortage, Chicago Police Shortage, Chicago Police, Chicago News

Heading into year No. 2 of a hiring slowdown, the Chicago Police Department is now nearly 2,000 officers short of its authorized strength of 13,500, c...

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Aldermen Threaten To Reject Big Pay Raises For Cops

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Raises, Chicago City Council, Chicago Budget Shortfall, Chicago Budget, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police, Chicago News

If an independent arbitrator awards double-digit pay hikes to Chicago Police officers, there's a good chance the City Council will reject it, some ald...

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New Policy Advises Cops To Taser People In The Back

Chicago Sun-Times | FRANK MAIN | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago-Police-Taser, Chicago Police Department, Cpd, Chicago Taser, Chicago Police, Chicago News

Shoot them in the back. That's the Chicago Police Department's new training directive for officers who need to use a Taser to subdue someone....

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Police Union Holding Fundraiser For Cop Charged With DUI Homicide

Fox Chicago | Larry Yellen | Posted 10.21.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Joseph Frugoli Party, Joseph Frugoli, Andrew Cazares, Chicago Police Department, Fausto Manzera, Chicago Police Misconduct, Chicago News

There were angry protests last Spring when Chicago police detective Joseph Frugoli was released on bond. ...

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Daley: City Too Broke To Fill All 591 Police Vacancies

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Vacancies, Chicago Police Shortage, Chicago Police, Chicago Police Department, Mayor Daley, Daley Police, Chicago Budget, Chicago News

After hiring only 46 Chicago Police officers all year, Mayor Daley acknowledged Monday that the slowdown would continue in 2010, dramatically impactin...

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G-20 Police Investigated Over Picture With Handcuffed Student (WATCH)

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: G20 Summit, Video, Police Misconduct, Kyle Kramer, Chicago Police Department, G20 Chicago Police, Chicago Police Misconduct, G20 Protests, g20 Police, Chicago Police Pittsburgh, Chicago News

CHICAGO - (AP) The Chicago Police Department is investigating several of its officers accused of forcing a college student they arrested during last m...

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Supreme Court Hearing Chicago Police Car Seizure Policy

Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Supreme Court, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Car Seizures, Chicago News

Today the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to review the way the city of Chicago seizes and impounds cars. ...

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Yes, Institutional Violence Does Exist and It Exacerbates Youth Violence

Tracy Siska | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Violence, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Crime, Youth Violence, Vice Lords, Illinois Charter Schools, Chicago Education Reform, Chicago School Reform, Collins High School, North Lawndale, Chicago Gang Violence, Chicago News
Tracy Siska

Who in their right mind thought it would be a good educational decision to move black kids from 95% black North Lawndale to Little Village High School in a 95% Latino community? Racial violence was predictable if not guaranteed.

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Chicago Police Stonewall on Rape Investigations

Sarah Tofte | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Rape Kits Put in Storage, Chicago Rape Kits, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police Department Untested Rape Kits, Rape Kits, Untested Rape Kits, Chicago News
Sarah Tofte

Every year in the U.S, over 200,000 people report they have been raped. Many submit to an invasive DNA collection, so they can convict their attacker. But thousands of these DNA samples go untested.

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Chicago Police Corruption: More Cops Plead Guilty In SOS Probe

Chicago Sun-Times | RUMMANA HUSSAIN | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Special Operations Section, Chicago Police Department, James McGovern, Chicago Police Corruption, Chicago Police Sos Unit, Chicago-Illinois, Frank Villareal, Jerome Finnigan, Chicago News

Two more former Chicago Police officers pleaded guilty this morning to charges related to the Special Operations Section corruption investigation....

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Obama's Chicago Home Losing Police Protection

Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Department, Obama Home, Obama Kenwood, Barack Obama Hyde Park, Obama Hyde Park, Barack Obama, Video, Obama Chicago, Obama Family, Obama Secret Service, Chicago News

The Chicago Police Department is pulling its overtime detail that guards President Barack Obama's Kenwood home on Oct. 1, department officials announc...

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Jailed Corrupt Cop Still Draws $68,088 Pension

Chicago Sun-Times | TIM NOVAK | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Department, William Hanhardt, Chicago Police Misconduct, Chicago Police Corruption, Chicago News

He's one of the most crooked cops in Chicago history. William Hanhardt helped run a ring of mobbed-up jewel thieves -- while he was chief of detective...

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Firefighter Charged With Punching Cop Near Soldier Field

STNG | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Department, Chicago Fire Department, Firefighter Punches Cop, Scott Holland, Soldier Field Arrests, Chicago News

An off-duty Chicago firefighter has been arrested after allegedly punching a Chicago police officer outside Soldier Field Sunday night -- sending the ...

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Former Elite Chicago Cops Headed To Jail After Admitting To Theft, Break-Ins

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 09.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police Corruption, Chicago Police Sos Unit, Chicago Police Special Operations Section, Crooked Cops, Donovan Markiewicz, Bart Maka, Brian Pratscher, Guadalupe Salinas, Jerome Finnigan, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Four former members of an now-disbanded Chicago police unit admitted Friday to taking part in a brazen scheme in which they barged int...

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Police Taser Man In Lincoln Park

STNG | Posted 09.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lincoln Park Taser, Chicago Police Department, Lincoln Park, Chicago Police Taser, Chicago News

Chicago Police Tasered a man attempting to flee police early Friday in the North Side's Lincoln Park neighborhood....

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Former Cops To Plead Guilty In Major Police Corruption Probe

Chicago Tribune | David Heinzmann | Posted 09.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Special Operations Section, Chicago Police Sos, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police Corruption, Chicago News

Four former Chicago police officers implicated in the Special Operations Section scandal have made deals to plead guilty in exchange for cooperating w...

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Surveillance Cameras Show Cop Beat CTA Bus Driver Unconscious: Union

Chicago Sun-Times | STEFANO ESPOSITO | Posted 09.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cta, Chicago Police Department, Cta Bus Driver Beaten, Cop Beat Bus Driver, Cop Bus Driver Assault, Chicago News

An off-duty Chicago police officer allegedly beat a CTA bus driver so badly Saturday night that the driver was left unconscious, a representative from...

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Release of Police Documents Imminent

Jamie Kalven | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Bond v. Utreras, Government Secrecy, Mayor Daley, Mara Georges, Jody Weis, Joan Lefkow, Chicago Police Department, Government Transparency, Chicago Police Misconduct, Civil Rights, Chicago News
Jamie Kalven

The city believes its power to impose secrecy should be unlimited and beyond scrutiny, that it should be the sole arbiter of what is and is not public information.

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Police Send 40 Squad Cars To Break Up Northwest Side Gang Fight

Chicago Tribune | Posted 09.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Police Department, Chicago Gang Fight, Chicago Gangs, Gang Violence, Chicago Police, Chicago News

Chicago police quelled a large gang fight on a busy Northwest Side street early this morning....

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Cops Crack Down On Women Driving Drunk

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Drunk Driving, Women Drunk Driving, Chicago Police Department, Chicago News

Over the past decade, DUI arrests of female drivers have shot up in Chicago, as well as across Illinois and the nation, new government figures show. ...

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