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Nationally, between 6 and 20 percent of citizen-initiated complaints are sustained, said Lou Reiter, a police consultant who trains internal affairs investigators. As HuffPost’s Ryan Reilly noted earlier this year, a lack of transparency and accountability within police departments is a phenomenon hardly limited to Chicago.
Over the past five years, Chicago taxpayers have forked over nearly $400 million to resolve lawsuits stemming from officer misconduct, according to a new analysis of city data. While around 1,300 ...
The Cook County Sheriff's Police Department has over 500 state certified law enforcement officers charged with patrolling unincorporated areas of Cook County as well as assisting suburban police departments with police operations including, but not limited to, detective and evidence services, narcotics interdiction, bomb detection and disposal ...
In the 2010s, two new proposals for civilian oversight of police emerged and gained some support in the City Council. The Chicago chapter of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression began drafting an ordinance called Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) in 2012, [1] which was first introduced in City Council by alderperson Carlos Ramirez-Rosa in 2016.
Jeffrey found work as a truck driver and chauffeur, while Jill, who worked as a lab technician, was a chemistry student at Loyola University Chicago, where she was working toward her degree. The couple never settled down, moving once a year due to complaints from landlords about the dogs and birds they kept.
During that period, nearly 2,800 Chicago police officers logged a combined total of 27,000 overtime hours to patrol these events, according to a CBS News Data Team analysis of police overtime ...
Chicago Police camera in 2006 Chicago Police helmet & billy-club circa 1968. Chicago police officers are required to buy their own duty equipment (except Taser x2 and Motorola radio Motorola phone). [115] All field officers must also be qualified to carry a Taser. Some officers choose to carry a backup weapon as well, which must meet certain ...
A Chicago police officer is under investigation for striking an eighth grade boy earlier this year as at least one school employee and the teen’s classmates looked on, the Tribune has learned.