Chicago Police Officer Injured When Driver Tries To Flee After Traffic Stop
A Chicago Police Officer was injured after a car tried to flee after being stopped for driving erratically.
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A Chicago Police Officer was injured after a car tried to flee after being stopped for driving erratically.
The Police Board on Thursday approved a six-month suspension for a sergeant who shot an unarmed teenager with disabilities.
The Police Board on Thursday reprimanded a Chicago Police sergeant for his handling of an investigation of a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, but the officer averted a suspension.
Chicago Police on Tuesday offered condolences after a police officer and five others were killed in a gun battle in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Interim Chicago Police Supt. Charlie Beck announced Tuesday that he is freezing merit promotions while he is in charge.
The public got to weigh in Monday on the search for Chicago's next police superintendent.
The man who was body-slammed by a Chicago Police officer after he spit in the officer's face was freed from Cook County Jail on Friday night.
Disturbing video showing a Chicago Police officer slamming a man into the pavement went viral last week and continues to be the subject of an independent investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA).
Confirmation tonight of a job change for the female Chicago police officer connected to the Eddie Johnson scandal.
"We do want to get things moved along as expeditiously as we can, and we are starting the process of engaging them," she said.
"An individual using cannabis in their own backyard or balcony poses no direct threat to public safety, and no resident should be arrested or ticketed solely for such a scenario," the mayor said.
The mayor also denied the police union's claim that she fired Johnson in order to make the case for hiring a department outsider as the next superintendent.
Police described the maneuver as an "emergency takedown," but Bernard Kersh's attorneys have called it "a brutal and vicious attack."
Mayor Lori Lightfoot may have announced the firing of now ex-police superintendent Eddie Johnson in a no-holds barred news conference, but it didn't mean he was booted from the police department.
Police have said an officer performed an "emergency takedown" on Bernard Kersh after he spit in an officer's eye.
Interim police Supt. Charlie Beck wasted no time Tuesday – bumping a district commander down to a captain.
Sources told CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot about 20 high-ranking officers are planning to retire. Most of those officers were appointed to their current positions by Johnson, whom Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired on Monday.
Former Chicago Police Cmdr. Kenneth Johnson was sentenced to two years' probation Tuesday for Social Security theft charges.
Former police Supt. Eddie Johnson on Tuesday acknowledged he "made a poor decision and had a lapse of judgment" when police officers found him slumped over in his vehicle, but denied that he misled the mayor over his actions.
Officials said the guns sell quickly and it's difficult to know where they wind up.
Former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson had been out drinking with a woman who was not his wife hours before he was found slumped over the steering wheel in October, sources told CBS 2.
"It has become clear that Mr. Johnson engaged in a series of actions that are intolerable for any leader in a position of trust," she said Monday morning at City Hall.
With Eddie Johnson now fired instead of retired, it's unclear how much Beck will rely on him for guidance.
Now-fired police Supt. Eddie Johnson's rise was called inspirational, but his fall has been dramatic.
Chicago police were called to the Block 37 mall in the Loop after reports of a man shot in the chest.
