Tyler Spratt had a smile for everyone. He’d spin tales with loved ones, trying to get them to bite, and, when they’d discover the ruse, he’d let out a laugh. Spratt was warm and loving, his obituary notes, particularly with his nephew and younger cousins. He took pride in his job as a chef—the 28-year-old, […]
Category: Police
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Superintendent Brown resisted CCPSA goal-setting
According to commissioners, Brown claimed the federal consent decree limited their ability to set goals for him as mandated in the ECPS ordinance.
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Police brutality survivors and former cops are running for Chicago’s Police District Councils
The councils are the first to be elected to police oversight bodies.
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Police district candidate’s social media full of racist and misogynist posts
Perry Abbasi, an FOP election attorney and candidate in the 25th police district, defended the posts as humorous trolling.
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Fifty years of struggle
Frank Chapman discusses the history of the movement for community control of the Chicago police.
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Many on house arrest bombarded with texts from sheriff’s contractor
Hundreds of Chicagoans have been inundated with faulty alerts that summon sheriff’s deputies and carry the threat of jail.
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Central Illinois police training for mental health cases questioned
Significant issues remain around police use of involuntary commitments.
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The cop who would be mayor
CPD officer Frederick Collins has more than 40 misconduct complaints. Now, he’s running for mayor.
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ShotSpotter held in contempt of court
Rather than release documents, a ShotSpotter attorney requested the contempt order.
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CPD requested thousands of vaccine exemptions
Nearly half of Chicago police employees applied for exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine.
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New body-cam images show CPD attack on Miracle Boyd
Officer Nicholas Jovanovich knocked out the activist’s tooth and seized her cell phone.
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Chicago police, firefighters donated to Canadian trucker convoy
One firefighter apparently used an official city email address to contribute.
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Chicago police pistol-whipped suspect in brutal 2017 arrest
Last year, COPA recommended three of the officers involved be fired. They still haven’t been.
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CPD’s chief LGBTQ+ liaison officer left the post amid internal turmoil
Sources familiar with the department say the liaison office has become an understaffed PR ploy.
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Journalism and Police Accountability: Perspectives from the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Torture Justice Center
Reader co-publisher Karen Hawkins, former Reader reporter John Conroy, Aislinn Pulley, co-executive director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center, and Mark Clements, an activist and police torture survivor discussed the role of journalism in uncovering police violence.