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“On Monday night, our department and our city lost a hero when officer Enrique Martinez was shot and killed protecting the city of Chicago,” Snelling said. “Today is the first step in bringing his killer to justice.”
On Thursday, six Chicago police officers were honored at a ceremony recognizing them as "Officers of the Month" for October. Four of those officers were commended for their diligent search for surveillance video after an armed robbery on the city's North Side.
At least 8 people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in River North, officials said. About 2:40 a.m., a group was gathered in the 300 block of West Erie Street when someone opened fire, Chicago police said. Three males and one female were hospitalized in critical condition, police said.
For the first time in at least eight months, no asylum seekers were being housed in Chicago police district buildings as of Saturday morning, according to the city. Nearly 190 new arrivals were still awaiting shelter placement at O’Hare Airport, but the clearing of CPD stations marks an ebb in a crisis that has exhausted city resources and ...
Johnson’s hand-picked Chicago Board of Education approved a $9.9 billion budget that does not include the $175 million pension payment for non-teaching school employees. The city absorbed that payment until Johnson’s predecessor off-loaded that cost to the Chicago Public Schools.
Over the objection of Chicago’s top cop, a police officer now faces dismissal for fatally shooting a man who was holding a handgun after a foot pursuit in Garfield Park last year. On April 15, 2023, Officer Fernando Ruiz fatally shot Reginald Clay Jr., 24, following a brief foot chase in the 3800 block of West Flournoy Street.
Residents of the 33rd Ward, social justice groups and local officials demanded an outside investigation into Chicago police officers with ties to the Oath Keepers extremist group two months after CPD officials chose not to discipline them after what the groups called an “inadequate” investigation.
Extra Reading. Articles of interest we've run across tonight. Another useless police oversight body, bringing the total to something like eight: The president and vice president of Chicago’s Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability on Tuesday are among Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choices to serve on the permanent panel ...
With the Democratic National Convention less than two months away, a coalition of community organizations voiced “serious concerns” Thursday about the Chicago Police Department’s newly revised mass arrest policy.
Threats Against the Blog. So we got a threat yesterday via email. Here's the full text of the email: Remove my court case from this blog. It has come to my attention that my court case under Jennifer Koniarski has been posted on your blog twice. My case is my business. It is violation of hipa law.