Chicago, IL – Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson placed an officer on desk duty Tuesday after a video emerged that appears to show the officer kicking a suspect in the head during an arrest.
AUSTIN — After a 55-year-old woman and 19-year-old man were shot and killed by police during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, police say the woman’s death was a tragic accident.
Chicago – A police commander who had been praised for his crime fighting in some of the city’s roughest neighborhoods will go on trial on Tuesday on charges that he put a gun in a suspect’s mouth.
Chicago’s top cop is out. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the news during a Tuesday afternoon news conference about Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, whom Emanuel hired shortly before his 2011 inauguration.
A Chicago Burger King manager who accuses police of erasing surveillance video in the case of a black teenager shot last year by a white officer said Saturday he testified before a federal grand jury investigating the shooting.
WEST ROGERS PARK — After a series of attacks and anti-Semitic threats, Jewish families in West Rogers Park have lined up their own security force of off-duty Chicago police officers to patrol the neighborhood.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois says that Chicago police officers are employing the controversial “stop and frisk” practice more than officers in New York City, where a judge ruled the widespread practice discriminated against minorities.