Chicago Police Department

While shooting incidents dropped across the city 2023, robberies were up more than 20%, CPD’s initial data showed.

The Chicago Police Department released end-of-year crime statistics on New Year’s Day, revealing shootings and murders were down over the past year despite increases in other crimes across the city. NBC 5’s Patrick Fazio reports.

A Chicago police officer has been relieved of his duties and charged with aggravated battery following an incident in which he was captured on surveillance video forcefully pushing a student at a school on the south side of the city.

A Chicago police officer has been charged with aggravated battery for allegedly striking an eighth grade boy while making an off-duty visit to a South Side elementary school earlier this year, according to a grand jury indictment made public Thursday.

In a wide-ranging interview, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling discusses what he believes the top threats to public safety are in the city, and how his department plans to address them.

Larry Snelling has previously served as Deputy Chief of Area 2, 7th District Commander, Sergeant of Training and Sergeant of Patrol

Despite years of reform efforts, a newly-released report has found a racial disparity still remains persistent when it comes to who Chicago police officers pull over, stop and frisk, NBC Chicago’s Bennett Haeberle reports.

Despite years of reform efforts, a newly-released report has found a racial disparity still remains persistent when it comes to who Chicago police officers pull over, stop and frisk.

The update from Chicago Police comes following a series of violent weekends in Chicago, including Memorial Day weekend, where the city saw at least 11 people fatally shot and 53 shot and wounded.

With public safety and gun violence on the tops of residents minds as the weather in Chicago gets warmer, interim supt. Fred Waller on Monday discussed the Chicago Police Department’s plans for summer safety. Sandra Torres has more.

After an extremely violent weekend in which nine people were killed and 46 were injured in shootings across Chicago, the city’s interim police superintendent on Monday outlined both long-term and short-term plans for summer safety. NBC 5’s Evrod Cassimy has the latest on his plans and volunteers’ efforts to improve safety.

When former Mayor Lori Lightfoot was on the Chicago Police Board, she called the department’s Rule 14 the “you lie, you die” rule. But the inspector general’s office found that the regulation isn’t being consistently enforced, undermining the department’s integrity.

Family and friends came together for a candlelight vigil Saturday night to remember Chicago Police Officer Aréanah Preston and detest violence across the city.

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