CHICAGO – Days after Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed away from a pledge to have a judge monitor efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department, a host of civil rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit seeking to spur sweeping changes in […]
CHICAGO — A convicted felon out on parole is now charged with attempted murder in the shooting a Chicago police officer, reported CBS News. The shooting occurred over the weekend. Dashonn Maggette, is charged with one felony count of attempted […]
CHICAGO – The Chicago Police Department has recorded suicide rates 60 percent higher than the national average. Last year was the deadliest year in Chicago in 19 years with 762 murders, according to data from the Chicago Police Department. POLICE […]
BALTIMORE – In a case of short-sighted thinking on display, the Baltimore City Council is resolved to support a proposal to accept weapons off the street in lieu of bail from an inmate booked for a criminal offense. The disagreeable […]
CHICAGO – Aldermen are calling for Chicago Police Department to be equipped with better weaponry after two undercover officers were shot in the city’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. Detectives say the suspect used a high-powered rifle. Due to the attack Tuesday […]
Someone ransacked Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson’s police-issued unmarked black Chevrolet Tahoe. The crime occurred between Friday night and Saturday morning while it was parked outside his home in the Bridgeport neighborhood, reported Chicago Sun-Times. However, nothing was taken, police […]
CHICAGO – A $25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the person who shot and killed a Cook County judge, reported ABC7. Associate Judge Raymond Myles was killed and a 52-year-old woman was wounded Monday morning in a […]
CHICAGO – Chicago Police Department arrested 81 people in overnight raids, the department’s spokesman said Friday. Yet most notably was a machine gun that was seized during the sweep. Of those arrested, 62 were convicted felons and 14 of them were […]
CHICAGO – Chicago Police Department investigators are looking for a driver who struck and dragged a police officer during a traffic stop on the West Side. The officer made the detention Saturday at 1:26 a.m. in the 5400 block of […]
CHICAGO – The rate of suicide among officers in Chicago is 60 percent higher than other departments across the U.S. This is a staggering figure. Among the ranks of the nearly 10,000 patrol officers of the Chicago Police Department, an […]
