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Wrongful Chicago Police raid that traumatized children set for civil trial 7 years later
The Mendez family is suing the City of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department, accusing officers of violating their civil ...
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Man who murdered off-duty Chicago police officer gets 90 years in prison, prosecutor says
A man convicted of murdering an off-duty Chicago police officer in 2019 was sentenced to 90 years in prison, prosecutors ...
CPD striving for diversity on the force, but results depend on how new officers are counted
Chicago’s Human Resources department categorizes “race” and “ethnicity” separately, and there is some overlap among the ...
Chicago Police Department making 'significant strides' toward court-ordered reforms, monitor reports
The team charged with overseeing the federal consent decree — set in place in 2019 — found the department made “significant ...
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Trump’s DOJ Has Frozen Police Reform Work. Advocates Fear More Abuse in Departments Across the Country.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When news broke in January that the Trump Justice ...
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Justice Department eyes combining ATF and DEA as part of broad restructuring
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department leadership is proposing ... saying “cutting resources from ATF would literally be defunding the police.” “The ATF’s mission is to stop violent ...