The president of the Chicago Police Sergeants' Association was charged Friday wth using his fellow sergeants' union dues as his own personal piggybank...
Ellen Gill | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
Many residents of Northbrook and the surrounding suburbs are upset about the gun giveaway because it will put more weapons in our neighborhood.
Chicago Tribune | David Heinzmann | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago
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 ...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARK BROWN | Posted 11.06.2009 | Chicago
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...
ABC 7 | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago
An indictment has been dismissed against a Chicago police officer accused of writing numerous false drunk driving tickets. ...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick and John Byrne | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley and some aldermen suggested today that police officers and firefighters take off nearly five weeks without pay to cut city spendin...
Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
When Chicago's Police Superintendent wants to fire an officer for misconduct he has to get approval from the Chicago Police Board....
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRANK MAIN | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago
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....
Fox Chicago | Larry Yellen | Posted 10.21.2009 | Chicago
There were angry protests last Spring when Chicago police detective Joseph Frugoli was released on bond. ...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago
After hiring only 46 Chicago Police officers all year, Mayor Daley acknowledged Monday that the slowdown would continue in 2010, dramatically impactin...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO - (AP) The Chicago Police Department is investigating several of its officers accused of forcing a college student they arrested during last m...
Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago
Today the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to review the way the city of Chicago seizes and impounds cars. ...
Tracy Siska | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago
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.
Sarah Tofte | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago
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.
Chicago Sun-Times | RUMMANA HUSSAIN | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago
Two more former Chicago Police officers pleaded guilty this morning to charges related to the Special Operations Section corruption investigation....
Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Police Department is pulling its overtime detail that guards President Barack Obama's Kenwood home on Oct. 1, department officials announc...
Chicago Sun-Times | TIM NOVAK | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago
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...
STNG | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago
An off-duty Chicago firefighter has been arrested after allegedly punching a Chicago police officer outside Soldier Field Sunday night -- sending the ...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago
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...
STNG | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago
Chicago Police Tasered a man attempting to flee police early Friday in the North Side's Lincoln Park neighborhood....
Chicago Tribune | David Heinzmann | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
Four former Chicago police officers implicated in the Special Operations Section scandal have made deals to plead guilty in exchange for cooperating w...
Chicago Sun-Times | STEFANO ESPOSITO | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
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...
Jamie Kalven | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago
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.
Chicago Sun-Times | Frank Main | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago