Block Club Chicago • 15th September 2023 Charges Against Southwest Side Asylum Seeker Dropped The 21-year-old mother faced felonies after migrants protested because they were unable to access the station’s public bathroom.
Block Club Chicago • 14th September 2023 Volunteers Call For Charges Against Asylum Seeker To Be Dropped The 21-year-old mother was arrested after migrants staged a protest because they were unable to access the station’s public bathroom.
Block Club Chicago • 11th September 2023 Woman Seeking Asylum Arrested After Protest Over Police Station Bathroom Access, Volunteers Say The case highlights the challenges of using police stations as temporary shelters.
Block Club Chicago • 8th September 2023 Top Cop Nominee Larry Snelling Grilled By Residents At Public Forum The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability also voted to eliminate the Police Department's controversial gang database.
South Side Weekly • 1st September 2023 “Doesn’t Make it Wrong” CPD Chief Larry Snelling testified in 2015 that an officer’s use of force was appropriate, but IPRA and the then-superintendent found otherwise.
South Side Weekly • 17th July 2023 CPD Sergeant Accused of Threatening Asylum Seekers With Dog The officer is under investigation; volunteers allege mistreatment of new arrivals at five other stations.
The TRiiBE • 25th May 2023 Community partners and agency heads join Mayor Johnson to announce violence prevention plan
The TRiiBE • 8th February 2023 Paul Vallas’s son is one of 3 police officers who fatally shot a man in Texas The Chicago mayoral candidate has criticized foot-pursuit reforms and is endorsed by the FOP
The TRiiBE • 7th February 2023 Police District Council candidate confirms FOP support 8th District candidate Mark Hamberlin had denied the endorsement at a forum in Englewood.
Chicago Reader • 4th February 2023 The youth are on fire Saul Arellano, Ashley Vargas, William “The Kid” Guerrero, and Anthony Michael Tamez are among the youngest candidates for Police District Councils.
Chicago Reader • 27th January 2023 Superintendent Brown resisted CCPSA goal-setting According to commissioners, Brown claimed the federal consent decree limited their ability to set goals for him as mandated in the ECPS ordinance.
Chicago Reader • 26th January 2023 Police brutality survivors and former cops are running in Chicago’s police district council races The councils are the first to be elected to police oversight bodies.
Chicago Reader • 19th January 2023 Police district candidate’s social media full of racist and misogynist posts Perry Abbasi is an FOP election attorney and candidate in the 25th police district.
Chicago Reader • 15th January 2023 What do police district councils do? Police district councils and the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability have broad oversight of the police department.
Chicago Reader • 26th July 2022 ShotSpotter held in contempt of court Rather than release documents, a ShotSpotter attorney requested the contempt order.
Chicago Reader • 30th March 2022 New body-cam images show CPD attack on Miracle Boyd Officer Nicholas Jovanovich now faces firing as a result of the 2020 incident, in which he knocked out the activist’s tooth and seized her cell phone.
Chicago Reader • 17th February 2022 Chicago police, firefighters donated to Canadian trucker convoy One firefighter apparently used an official city email address to contribute.
Chicago Reader • 7th February 2022 Chicago police pistol-whipped suspect in brutal 2017 arrest Last year, COPA recommended three of the officers involved be fired. They still haven’t been.
South Side Weekly • 7th December 2021 COPA Recommended Westinghouse Prep Cop Be Fired in March Chavez Siler, the officer who attacked a student last month, should have been fired for pistol-whipping a suspect in 2017, COPA found.
