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A man has been arrested and charged with impersonating a police officer – in a pattern that goes back a dozen years until he was just 14 years old.
One of the first studies of its kind finds that deploying officers of color as well as female officers could reduce shootings and improve how police treat Black residents.
Attorneys filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department Tuesday, as the Civilian Office of Police Accountability released video of an incident in which an off-duty officer shot a man in the hand in the Irving Park neighborhood back in December.
City lawyers are headed back to court Tuesday morning, to try and keep hundreds of police misconduct records from being released.
A Chicago Police officer was assaulted Monday evening in the South Shore neighborhood.
Six weeks into 2021, Chicago has already seen more than 220 carjackings – compared with just over 70 at this time last year. It's clear this crisis isn't going away, and it needs a solution as big as the problem itself.
Police on Sunday arrested a suspect after coming across a car in the Greater Grand Crossing community that had been used in a previous carjacking.
Chicago Police were in mourning Saturday night after an officer was found dead.
Police on Chicago's far South Side say holes in their video surveillance grid have made it harder to solve some crimes. Now the 19th Ward is getting an influx of police cameras and license plate readers.
On Oct. 13, Cabrera got into a quarrel with someone near 52nd Street and Monitor Avenue in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood, and ended up firing his gun at a civilian. No injuries were reported.
No one was inside the squad car at the time, and no injuries were reported.
No one likes being ghosted, but especially not by Chicago Police Department.
The new charges accuse Catanzara of filing a false police report against then-CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson in 2018 accusing Johnson of breaking the law by joining an anti-violence march on the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Aldermen voted 41-8 to approve a plan to eliminate exemptions in the Welcoming City Ordinance that had allowed police to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in certain limited circumstances.
There was more stalling from the City of Chicago on Tuesday when it comes to making changes to how Chicago police execute search warrants.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot had earlier pushed back on the project, telling Ald. Anthony Beale she could not support it without more specifics on how much it would cost, who would pay for it, and how it would fit with CPD's existing community policing strategies.
With a dramatic spike in carjackings in Chicago, police are hoping education can provide the first line of defense.
Chicago Police on Saturday were searching for the culprits in a pair of carjackings the night before.
The "urgent recommendations" from the city's Office of Inspector General come as part of its review of CPD search warrant policies, launched as result of CBS 2's years-long investigation into wrong raids.
More than three years after the city's police oversight agency ruled officers were not justified when they shot Antwon Golatte during a traffic stop in 2015, the city is on the verge of settling his excessive force lawsuit.
A fourth suspect has been charged in the shooting death of retired Chicago Fire Department Lieutenant Dwain Williams.
Police Supt. David Brown said Thursday there had been 144 vehicular hijackings in Chicago in the first 21 days of January – placing the city on track to record 2,000 carjackings this year if the trend continues.
Two Chicago Police officers who searched and handcuffed a 10-year-old boy will not face suspension as recommended by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.
Carjackings have pretty much dominated our headlines over the last few months, and the CBS 2 Investigators have learned the majority of the arrests have involved juveniles.
The OIG's investigation comes a month after CBS 2 first aired the disturbing body camera video showing officers entering Young's home and handcuffing her while she was naked.
