December 19, 2008 – 1:56 pm
Two suspects are in custody after an off-duty Chicago Police officer discharged a weapon early Friday afternoon near a Near South Side high school. No one was injured. The officer discharged a weapon near the intersection of 23rd Street and South Wabash Avenue, according to Independent Police Review Authority spokesman Ilana Rosenzweig. She said no [...]
December 15, 2008 – 7:26 am
By Annie Sweeney, Chicago Sun Times
With murders up 16 percent, Chicago Police officials Friday announced they are launching a second Mobile Strike Force unit to work in high-crime neighborhoods.
Through Friday morning, there had been 487 murders in Chicago, up from 421 at the same time last year, police said.
Violent crime is up 2.6 percent and [...]
December 9, 2008 – 12:00 pm
According to the Chicago Tribune off-duty Chicago police officer Pedro Solis, who fired 11 of the 16 shots that struck Lopez, admited drinking before being involved in the car chase that led to the death of 2005 Emmanuel Lopez.
Only a few weeks Cook County prosecutors closed a two-year long probe into the shooting with the [...]
November 28, 2008 – 3:43 pm
By David Heinzmann (Chicago Tribune)
A Chicago police tactical officer shot a man dead Tuesday morning when he responded to a domestic violence call on the South Side, police said.
The Grand Crossing District officer arrived about 11 a.m. to find the man wielding a gun in the middle of a dispute with a woman and another [...]
November 24, 2008 – 9:59 am
Joel Hood, Tribune staff report
Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis on Saturday unveiled a citywide gang-enforcement strategy to root out crime in gang-infested neighborhoods and reduce the city’s soaring homicide rate.
Leo Schmitz, the Police Department’s acting commander of gang investigations, will lead a gang enforcement unit of about 400 officers who will target violent neighborhoods where [...]
November 22, 2008 – 4:54 pm
POLICE FIRED SHOTS, but no one was injured Friday during an incident in the Marquette Park neighborhood.
About 11:15 p.m. Friday, officers were attempting to conduct a “street interview” at 6315 S. Campbell Avenue when Douglas Lewis fled, police News Affairs Officer JoAnn Taylor said. He then allegedly pointed a gun at the officers, prompting police [...]
November 22, 2008 – 5:11 am
Now that everyone realizes Richard Doroniuk is a corrupt cop, will it mean that he will pay for the murder of Dantwan Betts? Chicago Cop Watch hopes so. [Read the article "Missed Signals" from the Archives]
CHICAGO, Nov. 20 (UPI) — A former Chicago police officer has alleged in federal court that he once gave a [...]
November 20, 2008 – 10:00 pm
Protest groups say they haven’t gotten the full story from state
by Liz F. Kay (Common Dreams)
Documents released yesterday show that state police spying of nonviolent protest groups took place in 2007, more than a year after law enforcement officials said much-criticized surveillance of death-penalty activists had ended.
Barry Kissin is a member of the Frederick Progressive [...]
November 14, 2008 – 9:32 am
By SOPHIA TAREEN | Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO - While the world watched a Grant Park celebration heralding the election of the first black U.S. president, some white Chicago police officers committed hate crimes against black residents cheering Barack Obama’s victory elsewhere in the city, attorneys alleged Thursday.
A lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in [...]
November 13, 2008 – 10:17 am
Danny Davis holds his driver’s license after appearing in Traffic Court for a ticket issued to him last year for driving left of center. Davis says he was a victim or racial profiling. (Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times)
NOT GUILTY | Davis claimed last year he was given ticket for “driving while black”
BY MARK J. KONKOL Staff Reporter [...]
