The issue has been debated for years since Anjanette Young was handcuffed and forced to stand naked while a team of police officers mistakenly raided her home.

How long will Chicago align its policies and imagination with the racial stereotype that young Black folks aren’t children and are somehow inherently dangerous and other?

The Chicago Police Department made 45% fewer traffic stops in 2024, but Black and Latino drivers were four times more likely ...

CPD made 45% fewer traffic stops in 2024, but Black and Latino drivers were four times more likely than white drivers to be ...

A Louisiana law that creates criminal penalties for local law enforcement officers who do not fully cooperate with federal immigration investigations is putting the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s ...

A version of this story was first published in the July 2, 2025 issue of the Newswire, an email newsletter that is your ...

Chicago taxpayers have spent more than $189.3 million so far this year to resolve police misconduct lawsuits. For some, the issue raises concerns about the city’s finances. Others argue financial ...

The five-hour hearing focused on questions about whether Chicago Police Department brass and officers violated the city’s ...

A comedy? Hardly. It’s the most dramatic series on television. Its actors could clearly be frontrunners in the drama categories if its producers changed their designation with Emmy voters.

In a letter to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Raoul urged Johnson to reconsider proposed budget cuts involving the police department’s implementation of consent decree reforms.

CHICAGO — One of the executive orders signed by President Donald Trump this week seeks to end all federal consent decrees governing reform efforts by police departments across the country.

Maggie Hickey, a former federal prosecutor and court-appointed monitor, on Monday spoke publicly about the state of the consent decree, which took effect in 2019 following a U.S. Department of ...