EAST CHICAGO — Technology upgrades were likely coming to at least eight Region police departments this year, thanks to federal funding proposals. But now, after last month's federal budget cut ...

Members of the East Chicago Police Gang and Narcotics Division were joined by the Northwest Regional SWAT Team in serving the warrants around 6 a.m. Tuesday in the 5000 block of Melville Avenue ...

Rachaun "Munna Duke" Vance, slain early Saturday, was an associate of superstar rapper Dayvon “King Von” Bennett, killed in 2020. Also killed was Derrell Givens, 31. A 36-year-old man is hospitalized ...

(The Center Square) – A retired police chief says criminal activity has surged in suburban counties around Chicago. Federal ...

Saifullah Diab, 35, of Naperville, was charged with aggravated battery and home invasion, according to the Chicago Police Department. Police said Diab allegedly entered a home in the 1900 block of ...

The crime happened just after midnight on Saturday near 62nd and Kedzie Avenue, according to Chicago police. Police said a fight between two groups turned violent when a woman pulled out a sharp ...

CHICAGO — One of the executive orders signed by President Donald Trump this week seeks to end all federal consent decrees governing reform efforts by police departments across the country.

Chicago’s consent decree was approved and entered by a federal judge in early 2019. That now-former judge, Robert M. Dow, now serves as chief of staff to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

Donation Options Search Search Search Sun-Times file Sun-Times file Share More than five years ago, a police research firm recommended that the Chicago Police Department overhaul its homicide ...

A south suburban woman faces murder charges in the shooting death of a 28-year-old man walking outside his Lincoln Park home, Chicago police announced Thursday. Police arrested Josalyn Fowler ...

A 21-year-old man was arrested in Wairoa shortly before 11pm on Thursday. New powers granted to police to target gangs in Hawke’s Bay after three shootings in 48 hours are being used.

The first draft of the Chicago Police Department’s future policy regulating traffic stops was unveiled Thursday. And though officers would not be barred from conducting “lawful pretextual ...