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Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence after ...

Chicago Sun-Times 21 Mar 2025
Chicago cops pulled over fewer drivers last year as the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed sent shockwaves through the city and led to promises of reform ... Barack Obama ... Despite protests, lawsuits and police Supt ... Worsom Robinson / Sun-Times ... Related ... 12, 2022.
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Chicago police traffic stops have left 230 people injured and hospitalized in recent years

Chicago Sun-Times 21 Mar 2025
Byron Lamb still has nightmares about the day he was hospitalized after being pulled over by the Chicago police ... They ordered Lamb out. He refused. One of them then got inside his Buick sedan and shocked him with a Taser ... “Just coming from work ... Related.
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CPD detective convicted of threatening colleague now accused of harassing witness — also a CPD officer

Chicago Sun-Times 20 Mar 2025
Three months after he was sentenced to probation for threatening to kill a fellow Chicago police detective, CPD homicide Det. Marco Torres has been charged with harassing a third officer in an attempt to keep her from testifying against him ... Related.
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CPD's new second-in-command had car seized by cops after heroin bust

Chicago Sun-Times 17 Mar 2025
More than a year after being confirmed as Chicago’s top cop, Larry Snelling on Monday finally named a second-in-command. 30-year department veteran Yolanda Talley, the first woman to hold the position ... Brown ... ....
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In Chicago, slim odds of an arrest when someone is shot and wounded, Sun-Times finds

Chicago Sun-Times 14 Mar 2025
Tom Wagner was working as a rideshare driver when he got shot during a carjacking on the West Side in 2021. The shooting left a jagged scar across his abdomen where bullets pierced his gallbladder, colon and liver ... Related ... Related ... “It’s triage.” ... ....
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Chicago's ex-police oversight chief slams push to fire her as 'inherently unfair'

Chicago Sun-Times 11 Mar 2025
Weeks after Chicago’s police oversight chief learned she was facing a vote that could’ve led to her firing, she sent a scathing letter accusing a civilian-led commission of serving as a kangaroo court ... CCPSA wrote to Kersten on Jan ... Related.
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After forcing out COPA chief, oversight boss vows to confront 'dirty city' impeding police reform

Chicago Sun-Times 11 Mar 2025
He expected to find a “dirty police department.” Instead, he discovered a “dirty city.” ... Instead, Kersten jumped to avoid being pushed. What surprised and angered Driver, he said, were roadblocks put up by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Law Department ... ....
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In the sights of gun control activists for decades, Chuck's Gun Shop apparently closes

Chicago Sun-Times 08 Mar 2025
Chuck’s Gun Shop, a south suburban store in the sights of gun control activists for decades, appears to have closed, according to federal records and a sign on a window saying “going fishing forever.” ... The U.S ... Rev. Michael Pfleger is on the left ... ....
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Anti-police advocate roughed up during George Floyd protests in line for $280K settlement

Chicago Sun-Times 06 Mar 2025
A Chicago champion of the defund-the-police movement is in line for a $280,000 settlement after being roughed up by a police officer during a 2020 protest that turned violent at the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park ... Ald ... “She’s a phony ... ....
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$3M in settlements proposed for police chases gone bad, man struck by police vehicle

Chicago Sun-Times 06 Mar 2025
Chicago taxpayers will spend nearly $3 million to compensate the families of two people killed in high-speed police chases and a third person seriously injured when a Chicago police officer ran a red light ... On Feb ... The chase began at 11.50 a.m ... on Feb.
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