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ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology is in use on a light pole in the Austin neighborhood on Feb. 13, 2024. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

With ShotSpotter staying in Chicago for the time being, dispute continues over the system’s usefulness

March 3, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

In recent weeks, longstanding criticisms of ShotSpotter have intensified. Among them that the system is inaccurate, expensive and disproportionately harms people of color.

Loyce Wright, 43, center, died Feb. 23, 2024, while working as a security guard in an Austin Family Dollar. Wright is pictured here with three of his four daughters, left to right: Shanice, Sharice and Londyn. (Family photo)

Charges filed in fatal shooting of security guard in Austin

February 27, 2024 at 2:33 p.m.

A west suburban man faces a litany of criminal charges after he allegedly opened fire on Chicago police officers in the south suburbs while they tried to arrest him in...

John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, listens while aldermen discuss the police union arbitration deal at the City Council meeting at City Hall on Feb. 15, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Cook County judge denies extension on stoppage of police discipline cases

February 26, 2024 at 3:10 p.m.

A Cook County judge on Monday denied an effort by the city's largest police union to extend a pause on pending disciplinary cases before the Chicago Police Board.

Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling addresses the Chicago Police Board about officer wellness during a meeting at police headquarters on Feb. 22, 2024. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Top cop offers harsh critique of COPA after agency recommends CPD fire 28 officers

February 23, 2024 at 5:07 p.m.

The superintendent of the Chicago Police Department late Thursday issued a lengthy, stern critique of the city agency that probes police misconduct, accusing investigators of leaning on "personal opinions and...

Mourners gather for a vigil for Daveon Gibson on Feb. 1, 2024, near Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago. Gibson, a student at the school, was shot along with two other students after leaving school. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

2 teens charged with murder in deadly shooting near Senn High School

February 21, 2024 at 5:19 p.m.

Two boys, ages 14 and 17, have been charged with murder in connection with a fatal shooting outside a North Side high school last month that left one student dead...

John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, leaves after City Council voted down the police union arbitration deal on Feb. 15, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

FOP seeks extension of moratorium on moving CPD disciplinary cases through Police Board

February 21, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.

As the fight over the future of police discipline in Chicago carries on, attorneys for the largest Chicago police officers’ union have asked a county judge to extend a moratorium...

Larry Snelling, then-CPD counterterrorism chief and future police superintendent, comforts Carmen Cruz, who lost her son Officer John Cruz to suicide, as she and other family members attend the Fraternal Order of Police’s first-of-its-kind ceremony on Sept. 1, 2023, to unveil a Suicide Memorial honoring CPD officers who have recently died of suicide. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

As Chicago police grapple with mental health issues, deficiencies in the response are laid out in federal court

April 25, 2024 at 1:18 p.m.

CPD's officer wellness program remains understaffed and unable to respond urgently to the needs of officers in need of mental-health support, state officials said.

People walk past a mural of Adam Toledo on Ogden Avenue in Chicago on March 15, 2022. Toledo was fatally shot by police Officer Eric Stillman in 2021. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Beyond Adam Toledo, another 19 pending Police Board cases paused during dispute over cop discipline

February 12, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The ongoing fight over the future of police discipline in Chicago has reached the Circuit Court of Cook County, pausing cases.

The scene of a smash-and-grab burglary at SVRN, a luxury retail store, in Chicago's West Loop on Dec. 12, 2023. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

CPD uses task force to push back in battle against brazen retail burglaries

February 2, 2024 at 5:32 p.m.

Organized Retail Crime Task Force has so far recovered $3.8 million worth of merchandise stolen from retailers

Pair of mass shootings in suburbs offers grim reminder: Illinois and Chicago routinely rank among nation’s worst for such crimes

February 2, 2024 at 4:56 p.m.

A rash of deadly violence across the southwest suburbs last week was the latest iteration, leaving 11 people shot to death in a matter of hours. Four women — a...

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