View From The Ground

The city is coordinating with Justice Department investigators over changes being sought in contract talks with the Fraternal Order of Police in order to improve “discipline and accountability,” Corporation Counsel Steve Patton said last week…

The “vast majority” of recommendations made by the mayor’s Police Accountability Task Force last year “have not been implemented,” said Police Board president Lori Lightfoot, who chaired…

Six African American individuals and seven community organizations including Black Lives Matter have sued the City of Chicago, demanding court oversight for police reform ­– which Mayor Rahm Emanuel…

Hundreds of activists gathered last Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the death of Laquan McDonald. 
 
McDonald’s death precipitated the first murder indictment of a Chicago police officerfor an on-duty shooting in memory; a probe of the…

Much of the reaction to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s statement last week that she was considering designating a state agency to review police shootingsfocused on the agency in question — the Office…

The Justice Department’s investigation of the Baltimore Police Department offers a preview of many of the issues at play in the agency’s current Chicago investigation.

With efforts to speed trials and reduce the jail population falling short — and a lawsuit charging that unaffordable bond levels in Cook County are unconstitutional — Sheriff Tom Dart has called for…