Appeals court upholds $1.1 million for investigator who refused to change findings on CPD shootings
Lorenzo Davis was fired in 2015 from his job as a supervisor of Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, now known as COPA.
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Lorenzo Davis was fired in 2015 from his job as a supervisor of Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, now known as COPA.
The plan still requires legislative approval and places the governor at odds with AFSCME Council 31, the union representing 10,000 corrections employees.
Critics say people arrested for gun possession during traffic stops are collateral damage in an ineffective police strategy to fight crime.
The ex-judge’s top 25 individual donors include no African Americans and no women, a WBEZ analysis of her Illinois campaign filings finds.
Illinois state senator Rachel Ventura became the first state senator in Illinois to offer a legislative internship behind bars.
Primary ballots include a slew of judges who could have big impacts on the county’s criminal justice system.
The case against Emonte Morgan, 23, included often graphic video from cameras worn by French and Officer Carlos Yanez during a traffic stop in 2021.
Eileen O’Neill Burke, who faces Clayton Harris III in the Cook County Democratic primary, has received hundreds of thousands from conservatives.
A clerk’s office spokesman called the exposure “brief, non-damaging and limited in nature.” But a top county official says it was only the office’s latest failure.
WBEZ required a “yes” or “no” from Eileen O’Neill Burke and Clayton Harris III on topics ranging from gun possession to prosecutor unionization.