Chicago police use Tasers more frequently
The Chicago Police Department is defending its increased use of Tasers. The police department's city-run watchdog says Taser use is up so much, it doesn't have time to investigate each incident.A new...
View ArticleJury clears cops in schizophrenic man’s death
A federal jury Thursday afternoon cleared two Chicago police officers in the fatal shooting of a schizophrenic man in his Northwest Side bedroom. Raúl Barriera, 21, died the day after Sgt. Don Jerome...
View ArticleHammond mayor rejects comparisons to Ferguson
The breakfast was the same, but the conversation among regulars at Frankie’s Restaurant in Hammond, Ind. yesterday morning was a little livelier than usual.Many, like Michael Bullock and John Gunn,...
View ArticleAs police get body cameras, what happens to all that video?
One of the ideas catching hold after the non-indictments of police officers in the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown is equipping police with body cameras. Advocates of the idea say they increase...
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