Police brutality survivors and former cops ... they want Chicago Police Department funding to be ... CCOP was first conceived by the Black Panther Party and Chairman Fred Hampton in the 1960s.

CHICAGO (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department on Friday is scheduled to release the findings of an investigation of the Chicago Police Department, and a law enforcement official says the report will sho ...

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday is scheduled to release the findings of an investigation of the Chicago Police Department, and a law enforcement official says the report will show a pattern ...

During the early 1960s, Balto said, internal initiatives to increase recruitment helped diversify the Chicago Police Department, an effort further bolstered by a 1973 discrimination suit filed by ...

The Chicago Police Department seems to be continuously embroiled these days in multiple, high-profile investigations of fatal incidents, corruption scandals, and mishandling of critical equipment ...

Chicago has had a long history of police brutality, said Arthur Lurigio, a criminologist and professor at Loyola University in Chicago: “It extends as far back as we've had police officers, and ...

Spring of 1973 was a busy season for Renault Robinson, who spoke at a conference on “Community Control of Police” and, not incidentally, walked a beat in the alley behind Chicago’… ...

All 8th and 10th graders in Chicago Public Schools will learn the details of a police-brutality scandal that rocked the city between the 1970s and the early 1990s.

Homicides are, in fact, down in Chicago, but they remain at some of the highest rates since the 1990s, and overall crime spiked by 41 percent between 2021 and 2022. Last weekend alone, mass ...

Dr. Nenehemiah Russell, left, from the adhoc committee to end police brutality, and a demonstrator holding a cell phone, protest during a Chicago City Council meeting, Thursday, June 17, 1999 ...