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Teen Cop Impersonator Case Implicates At Least Five

Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Police Department officials say there were violations of rules and regulations leading up to a 14-year-old police impersonator...

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Police Superintendent Won't Release List Of Most Reported Cops

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 03.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Jody Weis, Chicago Police Complaint List, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police Abuse, Chicago Police Misconduct, Chicago Police Abuse Claims, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Chicago's top police official is defying orders from two federal judges to turn over lists of officers who have repeated complaints fi...

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Police Impersonator Charged After Confronting Off-Duty Cops In Logan Square

CBS 2 | Posted 03.13.2009 | Chicago

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A man armed with a fake gun who impersonated a police officer has been charged after he ordered two people -- who happened to be off-duty Chicago Poli...

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Drugs, Weapons Taken From Home Owned By Top Police Official

Chicago Sun-Times | Annie Sweeney | Posted 03.09.2009 | Chicago

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A 28-year-old man has been taken into custody after the seizure of drugs and weapons at a home owned by a high-ranking Chicago Police official, source...

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14-Year-Old Cop Impersonator Embarrasses City, Enrages Daley

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman, Frank Main And Annie Sweeney | Posted 02.28.2009 | Chicago

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It looks like heads will roll in the mysterious case of that 14-year-old alleged police impersonator who has provided fresh comic fodder for late-nigh...

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14-Year-Old Boy Impersonates Chicago Cop, Patrols Streets

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — A 14-year-old aspiring police officer donned a uniform, walked into a Chicago police station and managed to get an assignment _ patrol...

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Chicago Homicides Nearing Five-Year High

Chicago Tribune | Angela Rozas | Posted 01.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Murder Rate, Chicago Murders, Chicago Crime, Jody Weis, Chicago Homicides, Violent Crime, Chicago Police Department, Chicago News

Brought to Chicago from the FBI to improve the image of a scandal-plagued Chicago Police Department, Jody Weis instead saw his first year as superinte...

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Illinois Wrongful Conviction Tab Tops $100 Million

Rob Warden | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago

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Rob Warden

The only accountability has been the taxpayers' -- perhaps deservedly so, given that it is they who have tolerated, and continue to tolerate, widespread police and prosecutorial malfeasance.

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Michelle Obama's Chicago Police Officer Cousin Demoted

Chicago Sun-Times | Frank Main and Fran Spielman | Posted 01.04.2009 | Chicago

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A cousin of Michelle Obama was one of four police supervisors recently kicked off Supt. Jody Weis' command staff. The demotions signal that a positio...

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Weis's Tunnel Vision: Looking Forward Will Only Doom C.P.D. to Repeat Past Mistakes

Tracy Siska | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago

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Tracy Siska

Judging from Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis's actions and words, it is clear he does not take into consideration the particular history of Chicago police-community relations when making decisions.

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Chicago Police To Buy 2,000 SUVs

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago

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The Daley administration has signed a $59.2 million contract with a suburban dealership that could pave the way for the Chicago Police Department to ...

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Cop Stole Money From Drug Dealers: Prosecutor

Chicago Sun-Times | Natasha Korecki | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago

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A former Chicago police officer stole money from drug dealers as part of an agreement with his partner to make quick money, a federal prosecutor said...

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The City's Massive Lawsuit Payments

Chicago Reader | Mike Dumke | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago

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In January, after years of legal and political battles, the city agreed to pay $19.8 million to settle lawsuits by four men who were tortured by polic...

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Chicago Police Put Mobile Strike Force Unit On The Streets

Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago

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The scandal plagued SOS unit, or Special Operations Section of the Chicago Police Department has been up and running again all this month under a new...

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Rogers Park Residents Mobilize To Fight Crime

Chi-Town Daily News | Tasneem Nomanbhai | Posted 12.27.2008 | Chicago

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Curbing drug and gang activity, youth-related crime and public drunkenness topped the agenda of a Town Hall meeting on public safety held earlier this...

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Chicago Police Department To Hold Gang-Fighting Summit

AP | Posted 12.22.2008 | Chicago

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Chicago police officers will study gang-fighting strategies at a summit that will focus on getting search warrants, building tight cases against gang ...

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Teens Protest Police Use Of Assault Rifles

Chicago Tribune | Steve Schmadeke and Angela Rozas | Posted 12.22.2008 | Chicago

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Nearly 100 teens marched outside Chicago police headquarters Thursday night to protest the department's plans to equip officers with semi-automatic ri...

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Veteran Police Officer Fired Over $1 Theft Charge

Chicago Tribune | Angela Rozas | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago

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A 22-year veteran Chicago police officer was fired last month over charges he stole a $1 bag of trail mix from Walgreens. Aaron Pena was known as the...

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Budget Cuts Hurt Police Department

Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

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The Chicago City Council is scheduled to vote on the 2009 budget later today. The proposal cuts seventeen million dollars from the police department's...

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Suits claim election-night abuse by Chicago police

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that while a huge Chicago crowd celebrated the election of the first black U.S. president, some white...

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Chicago Police Mobile Strike Force, A.K.A. SOS 2: Someone Call Patrick Fitzgerald!

Tracy Siska | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago

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Tracy Siska

Weis has done what all Chicago Police Superintendents before him have done: use the excuse of a crime spike to institute a special unit that will most likely go bad.

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Attorney General Pressured To Examine Cases Of Alleged Torture Victims

Chicago Public Radio | Tasha Flournoy | Posted 11.30.2008 | Chicago

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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is again facing renewed pressure to examine the cases of some alleged victims of police torture. This comes aft...

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Chicago Murder Rate Tops New York And Los Angeles

Chicago Sun-Times | Frank Main and Annie Sweeney | Posted 11.24.2008 | Chicago

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As police Supt. Jody Weis returns to the hot seat during a City Council budget hearing today, Chicago is outpacing New York and Los Angeles in 2008 mu...

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Protest Planned Over Police Assault Rifles

Chi-Town Daily News | Peter Sachs | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

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A group opposed to the Chicago Police Department's plan to arm street cops with M4 semiautomatic assault rifles is planning to get their point across ...

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Obama Election Reaction: Bulls Win Melee or Rodney King Riot?

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 11.16.2008 | Chicago

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Esther J. Cepeda

If Obama won, would our streets flood with overjoyed citizens who pulled the sort of scene that saw taxi cabs overturned and looting and rioting in our neighborhoods after the Bulls' 1992 Championship?

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