Anjanette Young pushing for change 6 years after botched raid at her home
Young said she's still waiting on Mayor Brandon Johnson to make good on a promise to pass an ordinance creating strict rules on how and when police raids can be executed.
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Young said she's still waiting on Mayor Brandon Johnson to make good on a promise to pass an ordinance creating strict rules on how and when police raids can be executed.
The city's inspector general found police still can't track the full extent of wrong raids because of incomplete and decentralized record keeping.
"I'm grateful that they are finally getting disciplined," said Peter Mendez, who was 9 years old at the time. "But in my opinion, it should have happened sooner."
Many progressive aldermen want Chicago Police search warrant rules governed by the city's municipal code, rather than just internal CPD policies.
Young, an innocent social worker, was handcuffed naked as officers swarmed her home in a botched raid in 2019.
The Chicago Police Department's program for using confidential and registered informants is shrouded in secrecy and is lacking full accountability.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability has finished its investigation into the officers who wrongly raided the home of then-9-year-old Peter Mendez and his family.
The CBS 2 Investigators first documented the 2019 wrong raid by Chicago Police at the home of Anjanette Young. Young spoke with Gayle King on CBS Mornings about the trauma she still experiences.
One year ago, Anjanette Young agreed to show the world harrowing video of what happened to her in February of 2019.
Aldermen on Monday overwhelmingly backed a $2.9 million settlement with Anjanette Young, the innocent social worker who was handcuffed naked during a wrongful police raid nearly three years ago.
Police Supt. David Brown recommended Tuesday that a sergeant be fired in connection with his conduct in the 2019 wrong police raid in which Anjanette Young was handcuffed naked.
CBS 2 first told the story of the wrong police raid in which Anjanette Young was handcuffed naked in her apartment two years ago this week.
Despite months of public promises from Mayor Lori Lightfoot to resolve the lawsuit with Anjanette Young, the city on Friday asked a judge to dismiss the case after settlement negotiations stalled.
For the first time, Chicago Police will begin tracking some wrong raids that result from faulty information, such as the raid on Anjanette Young's home two years ago.
"I've made no secret of the fact that I've been extraordinarily unhappy with the way that they've handled a number of things, not the least of which is taking of 18 months to move forward on an investigation regarding Anjanette Young."
The City of Chicago has retained outside counsel in the case of Anjanette Young, the social worker who is suing the city after she was handcuffed naked in a botched police raid two years ago.
"This has been a journey for me. This is also a journey that I would not have chosen for myself."
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Supt. David Brown announced plans for sweeping changes to the Chicago Police Department's search warrant policies
CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini has uncovered some new disturbing findings. A team of officers went in with cameras rolling, but soon after they are all ordered to kill their cameras.
In three separate cases, Chicago Police officers had the incorrect address listed on a warrant and raided the wrong home, traumatizing innocent families and children. But, CBS 2 has uncovered that critical moments that should have been captured on police body worn cameras are missing or were never recorded at all.
For the first time, police body camera video reveals what an innocent woman said happened to her nearly two years ago: police officers wrongly entered her home with guns drawn and handcuffed her naked as she watched in horror.
CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini found a pattern of Chicago police officers raiding the wrong homes.
Following an unusually lengthy discussion, a key City Council committee on Monday signed off on paying a $175,000 settlement to a West Side family who were victims of police officers raiding the wrong apartment four years ago.
The first case involves an incident on March 23, 2017, when police broke through Ashanti Franklin's apartment door at 6 a.m., guns drawn, looking for someone who didn't live there.
The proposals from the Black Caucus would not make any changes to CPD or city policy, but would give aldermen another opportunity to publicly discuss what specific reforms the city should seek in order to stop incidents of wrong raids.
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Chicago police were searching Wednesday for two men in connection with a shooting that lefty a man wounded in the Northwest Side’s Hermosa neighborhood.
Three people were injured Tuesday night when an all-terrain vehicle slammed int a sport-utility vehicle in Chicago’s Belmont Cragin community.
One person was killed, and another was critically injured in a shooting in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.
Recovery from the severe weather on Monday has stretched into a third day.
Meteorologist Laura Bannon has the extended forecast.
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Chicago police were searching Wednesday for two men in connection with a shooting that left a man wounded in the Northwest Side's Hermosa neighborhood.
One man was killed, and another was critically injured in a shooting in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.
Earlier this month, charges were dropped in one case against Weinstein, but he still faces charges in New York and California.
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