Michael Berens

Federal officials often cite the City of Chicago as a model for community policing and the COPS program, but community leaders and a recent study call that distinction into question....

On a day when parades marked Chicago's sixth anniversary of community policing, Northwestern University researchers were preparing to release a study that says the nationally recognized program is faltering in...

A federal program to put 100,000 new police officers on America's streets is plagued by financial and management problems that have left millions of dollars unaccounted for, calling into question...

Citing evidence that thousands of nursing home patients diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses are receiving inadequate care, the Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to require stricter standards and, for the first...

In a surprise announcement Wednesday amid a federal investigation, the State of Illinois said it is withdrawing 17 nursing homes from the federal Medicaid program because the facilities are actually...

In 1998, the violent crime rate in Chicago dropped for the seventh consecutive year, but, for what is believed to be the first time, the city will top the nation...

The State of Illinois has improperly--and possibly illegally --collected an extra $50 million from Medicaid as part of an ongoing strategy to hide thousands of patients with mental illnesses inside...

A bipartisan House legislative investigation of the State of Illinois' warehousing of psychiatric patients in nursing homes will begin next month, a consortium of advocates and lawmakers announced Thursday. State...

Acknowledging that many private nursing homes have in effect become mental institutions, state officials are planning licensing procedures that would create a new class of facility specifically designed to serve...

On the second play of a recent football game, Deerfield High School quarterback Mac Mansavage smacked his head on the ground as he was tackled by an opposing lineman. He...