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CPD Vows To Issue Missing Person Alerts More Often

Posted 12.08.2009 | Chicago

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The Chicago Police Department has vowed to issue missing person alerts to the press more often, and it is already holding true to that promise, with s...

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Aldermen Question Proposed Police Discipline Changes

Chicago Current | Geoff Dougherty | Posted 12.03.2009 | Chicago

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Advocates of a new ordinance that would require more transparency in police disciplinary decisions received a tepid response and some tough questionin...

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Ex-Cop Michael Allegretti Fired From City Job After Two Weeks

Chicago Sun-Times | FRANK MAIN AND FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago

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A disgraced former Chicago Police officer recently was hired by the city to work as a $37,620-a-year field supervisor for parking enforcement....

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New Policy Advises Cops To Taser People In The Back

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

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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....

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Chicago Police To Be Evaluated On Attitude, Not Just Performance

AP | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Police Department says it plans to hold officers to a new standard that takes attitude and professionalism into account. ...

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Cop DUI's: 13 Chicago Police Officers Arrested For Drunk Driving In 2008

Associated Press | Posted 05.17.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO - The Chicago Police Department is reporting 13 officers were arrested last year for driving under the influence, with five of them involved i...

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Cops Stepping Up Curfew Enforcement, Strengthening Controversial Unit

Associated Press | Posted 05.15.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago police and public school officials have announced plans to intensify curfew enforcement in an effort to curb youth violence. ...

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Cop Accused In Fatal DUI Crash Got No 'Professional Courtesy': Weis

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.14.2009 | Chicago

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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 ...

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Cops Quietly Reinstated, Promoted After Being Caught In Rogue Officers' Scandal

Associated Press | Posted 05.08.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Nearly 1,500 Cops Picket City Hall As Olympics Evaluators Hit Town (VIDEO)

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago

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Protesters took their causes to the streets Thursday as an International Olympic Committee delegation arrived in Chicago -- their first stop among fou...

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Chicago Cops May Picket During Olympic Committee Evaluation Visit

AP | Posted 04.26.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Police Using Semi-Automatic Military Rifles Despite Protests

Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 04.25.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Aldermen Seek To Privatize Some Police Work

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN AND ANNIE SWEENEY | Posted 04.20.2009 | Chicago

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Private security guards patrolling three Far South Side commercial strips would be empowered to write tickets -- for everything from parking and movin...

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Police Supt. Jody Weis Gets No-Confidence Vote From Cops

Chicago Sun-Times | LISA DONOVAN | Posted 04.18.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago cops gave the department's top boss an unexpected -- and unflattering -- performance review during a monthly union meeting Tuesday night. Nea...

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Seven Cops Blamed For Teen Impersonator's Caper

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 04.03.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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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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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 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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Illinois Wrongful Conviction Tab Tops $100 Million

Rob Warden | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago

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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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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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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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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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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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