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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....
AP | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Police Department says it plans to hold officers to a new standard that takes attitude and professionalism into account. ...
Associated Press | Posted 05.17.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO - The Chicago Police Department is reporting 13 officers were arrested last year for driving under the influence, with five of them involved i...
Associated Press | Posted 05.15.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago police and public school officials have announced plans to intensify curfew enforcement in an effort to curb youth violence. ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.14.2009 | Chicago
A Chicago police detective accused of killing two people while driving drunk on the Dan Ryan last week was not given any "professional courtesy" from ...
Associated Press | Posted 05.08.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Police Department has quietly returned the badges of three police officers relegated to desk work after being caught up in the Special Ope...
AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago
Protesters took their causes to the streets Thursday as an International Olympic Committee delegation arrived in Chicago -- their first stop among fou...
AP | Posted 04.26.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The head of Chicago's police union says officers are considering picketing during next week's visit by members of the International Ol...
Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 04.25.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Police Department continues to move forward with a plan to equip rank-and-file officers with rifles that were originally designed for mili...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN AND ANNIE SWEENEY | Posted 04.20.2009 | Chicago
Private security guards patrolling three Far South Side commercial strips would be empowered to write tickets -- for everything from parking and movin...
Chicago Sun-Times | LISA DONOVAN | Posted 04.18.2009 | Chicago
Chicago cops gave the department's top boss an unexpected -- and unflattering -- performance review during a monthly union meeting Tuesday night. Nea...
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 04.03.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Chicago police said Tuesday that the 14-year-old who posed as an officer drove a patrol car and aided in an arrest, and that seven off...
Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Police Department officials say there were violations of rules and regulations leading up to a 14-year-old police impersonator...
Chicago Sun-Times | Annie Sweeney | Posted 03.09.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — A 14-year-old aspiring police officer donned a uniform, walked into a Chicago police station and managed to get an assignment _ patrol...
Rob Warden | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago
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.
Tracy Siska | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago
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.
Chicago Reader | Mike Dumke | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | Posted 12.22.2008 | Chicago
Chicago police officers will study gang-fighting strategies at a summit that will focus on getting search warrants, building tight cases against gang ...
Chicago Tribune | Steve Schmadeke and Angela Rozas | Posted 12.22.2008 | Chicago
Nearly 100 teens marched outside Chicago police headquarters Thursday night to protest the department's plans to equip officers with semi-automatic ri...
Chicago Tribune | Angela Rozas | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Angela Rozas | Posted 11.24.2008 | Chicago
Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis presented the City Council today with a budget that will cut 200 civilian jobs and reorganize top brass, and faced ques...
Chi-Town Daily News | Peter Sachs | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago
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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Chicago Sun-Times | FRANK MAIN | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago