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Her kidnapping is the oldest unsolved case of this nature in the files of the Chicago Missing Persons Bureau. [17] May 27, 1933 Mary McElroy: George McGee, Walter McGee, Clarence Click, and Clarence Stevens Kansas City, Missouri, US 25 Released McElroy, the daughter of City Manager Henry F. McElroy of Kansas City, was kidnapped and held for ...
The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is the primary law enforcement agency of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Chicago City Council. It is the second-largest municipal police department in the United States , behind the New York City Police Department . [ 3 ]
Silver Alert is a public notification system in the United States to broadcast information about missing persons – especially senior citizens with Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or other mental disabilities – in order to aid in locating them.
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.
Long before Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed a black teenager, sparking a public outcry and now a Justice Department probe into the city’s troubled police department, he had established a track record as one of Chicago’s most complained-about cops. Since 2001, civilians have lodged 20 complaints against Van Dyke. None ...
CHICAGO — After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the ...
Andrew V. Holmes (born 1959 or 1960) is a community activist active in the Chicago metropolitan area.He is especially known for his activism related to combatting gun violence, and is also active in advocacy for senior citizens and the homeless.
Hundreds of kidnappings for ransom occurred in the city, as per the Times, most of them having connections to Mexican drug and human trafficking as a way to pay off unpaid debts. [37] These statistics would have made the city have the highest kidnapping rate of any U.S. city, and second in the world only to Mexico City. [38]