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“Chicago is a very unique city, and most of the police superintendents that have been effective in Chicago have been chosen from the rank and file because they know the city, they know the ...
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
In 2015, Heather Mac Donald popularized the term, the Ferguson effect [citation needed] (an increase in violent crime rates in a community asserted to be caused by reduced proactive policing due to the community's distrust and hostility towards police) [26] [27] when she used it in a May 29, 2015, Wall Street Journal op-ed. [28] The op-ed ...
The police department issued the statement a day after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson doubled down on his vow to oppose Trump’s sweeping reform aimed at removing dangerous illegal immigrants ...
Though the Standard Club shelter told The Post there had been no crime there, Newsome showed The Post some of the 720 police incident reports logged at the Standard Club over the past 12 months.
In the 2010s, two new proposals for civilian oversight of police emerged and gained some support in the City Council. The Chicago chapter of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression began drafting an ordinance called Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) in 2012, [1] which was first introduced in City Council by alderperson Carlos Ramirez-Rosa in 2016.
Chicago Police Department officers were trained to deploy a disciplined and patient approach that focused on protecting free speech and allowing people to lawfully protest, a department official said.
On February 13, 2019, Chicago police raided the home of two "persons of interest" in the case. The men, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, were brothers of Nigerian descent [44] who'd acted as extras on Empire, the television series in which Smollett was a main cast member. [45] Police recovered bleach and other items from the home. [46]