Police ATVs No Longer Patrolling City Beaches
With a summer heat wave upon us, beaches are already packed and the popular Air & Water Show is just around the corner. So why aren't police officers going to be patrolling the lakefront on ATVs?
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With a summer heat wave upon us, beaches are already packed and the popular Air & Water Show is just around the corner. So why aren't police officers going to be patrolling the lakefront on ATVs?
A man was shot by police and two officers were hurt during a domestic disturbance Wednesday afternoon on the West Side.
The rumbling could be heard near Soldier Field even before more than 1,000 motorcycles rounded the corner for the end of Sunday's Ride to Remember commemorating police officers who died in the line of duty.
A Chicago police officer was shot Sunday afternoon in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side.
The garage where Chicago police officers park their motorcycles is now called "Mike's Garage," in memory of fallen Officer Michael Flisk, who was killed as he investigated a vehicle burglary last November in the 8100 block of South Burnham Avenue.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy says his department is more than ready to enforce the city's expanded curfew law, despite a manpower shortage.
Do you know where your kids are? Chicago's curfew law says anyone under 17 cannot be outside or in a public place after 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and after 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. But many residents complain that police don't enforce that law.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has spoken directly with police Supt. Garry McCarthy ending low-level marijuana arrests in the city.
A suspect is due in court Wednesday, more than a year after the murder of Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey.
Chicago Police say she committed suicide. Her family believes she was murdered. It's another questionable case from 2010, the year the police claimed its crime fighting techniques had dramatically reduced the city's murder rate.
A 24-year-old man has been charged in the murder of an off-duty Chicago cop who was shot and killed a year ago, about a month before he was set to retire.
A Wisconsin man has been charged in the 1991 stabbing death of a 16-year-old Chicago girl, after authorities linked his DNA to the crime.
Some Chicago cops are furious with police brass over a memo that says an officer who was murdered after guarding Mayor Daley's home hasn't been productive since he was killed in the line of duty.
A kidnapping suspect used an unconventional and dangerous method of trying to avoid arrest early Monday – police said he tossed the newborn baby he was holding at two police officers responding to a domestic disturbance.
A year after the murder of Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey, no one has been formally charged with his death. But as CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports, at a memorial service on Monday, there was reason for hope.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Garry McCarthy are putting another 92 officers of the street – 53 of them are rookies, new graduates from the police academy.
Although he has served the last several weeks as Chicago's top cop, Garry McCarthy took the formal oath Friday as former superintendents looked on.
After a controversial payout to former police Supt. Jody Weis, the new superintendent is making some major policy changes.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel acknowledged Tuesday that former Mayor Richard M. Daley's security detail is not being reduced for now, but he indicated it would be soon.
Last week, a man pulled alongside a group of children and offered them money to get into his vehicle, authorities said in an alert issued Monday.
Violent crime is down as of the end of June but three areas of property crime have increased as compared with last June, police said preliminary statistics suggest.
Two Chicago Police officers were injured in a crash when a squad car swerved to avoid another vehicle and crashed into a pole on the Northwest Side early Friday.
There is a possible break in the murder last year of a Chicago Police officer, who was gunned down as he polished his new car outside of his home.
One year has passed since Chicago Police Officer Thor Soderberg was shot and killed with his own gun.
A Far South Side man filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the City of Chicago and the police officers he says beat him for voicing his opinion on the physical arrest of his neighbors.
