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Lots of groups serve people in Illinois prisons and their families. Here’s what some of them do, and how you can contact them.
Lots of groups serve people in Illinois prisons and their families. Here’s what some of them do, and how you can contact them.
The Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability also will hold a public forum Thursday with CPD Counterterrorism Chief Larry Snelling, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice to become Chicago’s permanent police superintendent.
Joseph DeRosa pleaded guilty to resisting and obstructing police. It’s supposed to bar him from being a cop in Illinois.
Police data show murders are continuing to fall, but the numbers through August remain elevated from what was typical just a few years ago.
Anthony Driver said deciding serious police misconduct cases via arbitration would “drive the process of accountability behind closed doors.”
“We’re not just going to push everybody out the door just because there’s somebody who complains that we haven’t done it the way they would like it done,” the governor said in response to an Injustice Watch and WBEZ investigation.
The 84% jump in hate crimes in Chicago last year compared to the previous year was higher than the rest of the 10 largest U.S. cities by population, according to a report that analyzed hate crime trends in major U.S. cities.
Theories and rumors and unconfirmed reports have circulated on social media, but police and the Sox have released virtually nothing about the shooting that wounded two women last Friday night.
Lawmakers said hundreds would be released thanks to the Joe Coleman Medical Release Act. But so far, just 52 have gotten out.
Interim Police Supt. Fred Waller did tell reporters Monday that investigators have “almost completely dispelled” a theory that one or more bullets were fired from outside the stadium, wounding two women.