Police Reform
Most of the payouts stem from decades-old cases where convictions were overturned, the Law Department says.
Officer Krystal Rivera, a four-year veteran of the CPD, was unintentionally shot and killed by her partner during a foot chase June 5 that ended in a Chatham apartment. Jaylin Arnold, 27, is now the second felon facing gun and drug charges.
After a court hearing Tuesday, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police said the city only wants arbitration hearings held publicly “to make it a circus.”
Christopher Pazan broke records playing quarterback in high school and started some games at the University of Illinois. A cop since 2015, Pazan was allegedly caught on video swiping $300 worth of baseball cards from a Meijer superstore.
Jacqueline Villasenor agrees to six-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter, gets credit for years on electronic monitoring awaiting trial in 2021 death of German Villasenor.
Demonstrators hold a peaceful rally touting gains made in racial justice since 2020, and calling for unity of purpose in opposing Trump administration rollbacks of diversity and equity policies and continued accountability for police who engage in improper conduct.
Reed was found not guilty last year of a double murder for which he spent decades in prison. He’s suing the city and the officers he said forced him to confess.
The recruit’s lawyer said testing proved the alleged contraband wasn’t narcotics but “a look-alike substance” that the recruit’s brother used when he was training to become a cop.
More than five years ago, the Police Executive Research Forum recommended that the department overhaul its homicide investigations to address low clearance rates.
ShotSpotter’s parent company is among eight firms that submitted proposals for contracts to provide “gun violence detection technology,” according to records related to a bidding process some business leaders slammed as slipshod.
Chicago Police Department making 'significant strides' toward court-ordered reforms, monitor reports
The team charged with overseeing the federal consent decree — set in place in 2019 — found the department made “significant strides” toward meaningful reforms in the last six months of 2024, nearly doubling the number of sections in full compliance.
City of Chicago lawyers had recommended the deal, arguing that taking the case to court would cost taxpayers several times as much money to defend with outside counsel.
Police Supt. Larry Snelling said the innovative training program will “make for a much more effective police officer, and it’s going to make for much more effective planning around strategies that you need to reduce violence.”
Concerns raised by Inspector General Deborah Witzburg over city lawyers’ handling of two police torture lawsuits amount to “thinly veiled accusations of racism,” according to the city Law Department.
A judge on Wednesday will consider whether to hear from the former detainee as she weighs throwing out a murder confession the detective allegedly coerced.
The revolver that Cook County Judge William Stewart Boyd turned in at a Chicago police gun buyback resurfaced at the scene of a fatal police shooting in Cicero in 2012. Police said it would be “difficult and unwise” to interview anyone involved in the buyback and closed the investigation.
