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Home » community policing

Tag: community policing

Posted inNews & Politics

Activists say mayor’s police reform promises ring hollow

by Maya Dukmasova June 24, 2020August 18, 2021

Lori Lightfoot has hampered the process of installing a police oversight council, activists say, despite making it a major part of her public safety platform during her mayoral run.

Posted inBlogs

Pro tip for mayoral hopefuls: Don’t govern by press release, do sweat the small stuff

by Mick Dumke September 13, 2018August 18, 2021

Many Chicagoans never felt that Rahm Emanuel was their mayor.

Posted inBlogs

Rauner taps Democrat Paul Vallas to turn around Chicago State University, and other news

by Kate Shepherd January 18, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Obama’s Chicago staff reflect on working in the White House.

Posted inNews & Politics

People Issue 2016: Pat Hill, the good cop

by Maya Dukmasova December 7, 2016August 18, 2021
Posted inNews & Politics

The rise and fall of community policing in Chicago

by Nissa Rhee, Manny Ramos and Andrea Salcedo September 22, 2016August 18, 2021

Chicago used to be at the vanguard of community policing. But more than two decades after the strategy was launched, CAPS is a shadow of its former self.

Posted inBlogs

Fact-checking Rahm’s fact check of last night’s debate

by Mick Dumke February 5, 2015August 18, 2021

Some claims by Fioretti, Garcia, and Wilson are questionable, and so are Mayor Emanuel’s claims about them.

Captain Roger Bay: "We could ticket and arrest all we want, but the problem remains in the way people treat this community."
Posted inNews & Politics

The cop who wants to fight crime with the community

by Mick Dumke July 10, 2013August 19, 2021

The West Humboldt cop who wants to fight crime with the community.

Chet Jackson, executive director of the West Humboldt Park Development Council, at the neighborhood’s new restaurant, Turkey Chop
Posted inNews & Politics

Can a restaurant transform a neighborhood?

by Mick Dumke March 20, 2013August 19, 2021

West Humboldt’s new war on drugs: Open a restaurant

Posted inBlogs

City officials say they’re committed to community policing, just not to funding it

by Mick Dumke January 10, 2013August 18, 2021

A closer look at Mayor Emanuel’s plan to “revitalize” the CAPS program

Posted inBlogs

What a robbery in Edgewater says about the police staffing debate, part two of two

by Mick Dumke November 3, 2012August 19, 2021

A close look at a jewelry store stickup and the politics of police deployment, part two of two

Posted inBlogs

What a robbery in Edgewater says about the police staffing debate, part one of two

by Mick Dumke November 2, 2012August 19, 2021

A close look at a jewelry store stickup and the politics of police deployment

Posted inBlogs

Top cops can’t explain what’s up with CAPS

by Mick Dumke October 26, 2012August 19, 2021

CAPS director Ron Holt offers another spin on the future of the police department’s community outreach program

Posted inBlogs

Superintendent McCarthy dismantles CAPS, will replace it with something at some point

by Mick Dumke October 26, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicago police chief says we don’t need more cops, just a new community policing policy to be determined later

Posted inBlogs

Spared the knife

by Mick Dumke May 17, 2012August 19, 2021

As the police ranks shrink in the first year under Rahm Emanuel, mayoral aides get higher pay

Posted inBlogs

‘The mayor doesn’t know who we are’

by Mick Dumke March 29, 2012August 19, 2021

Is Rahm Emanuel aware that Chicago already has a community policing program?

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