Illinois

CPD's chief of the recruitment and retention unit says CPD has been making progress to recruit new hires; its goal is to make 1,000 hires by the year's end

“Multiple officers deployed water rescue kits while two officers swam to save the drowning child and the adult female who were in the water.”

A Chicago PD spokeperson would not elaborate on what contributed to the delay in that designation

A judge ruled that the man posed a danger to the officers at the scene when he grabbed at a TASER

The suspect sped off as officers attempted to approach the vehicle, which led to an officer firing shots at the passenger side – narrowly missing another officer

As a result of the staffing issues, "all 10 sections of the Consent Decree" are affected, the report said

After news broke of the officers potentially being sent to collections for not paying back the city’s legal costs, a letter was sent announcing the reversal

The suit seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that would prevent police from enforcing the curfew

Letters were sent to LEOs requesting they each pay $185 to account for $19,000 the city spent to fight a labor law violations case

The suspect, who had visited the station hours prior, said he wanted to talk about "a person who was a danger"

Earlier this month, a suspect ignored police commands, pulled a firearm and fired multiple rounds from close range toward officers

Police Superintendent David Brown contested the findings, saying the shooting did not violate department use-of-force policies

Decatur Police Chief Shane Brandel said the department's street crimes unit had seized more than 60 illegally owned firearms since May

The driver of the car they stopped died during an exchange of gunfire that involved three Decatur police officers and a Macon County Sheriff's Department deputy

"You're like a zombie. You're not even coherent. You're kind of just going through motions."