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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 ...
The first time Sioux Falls Police Chief Jon Thum saw evidence of labor trafficking, he didn’t recognize it. As a young patrol officer nearly 20 years ago, Thum entered a house that had no real ...
A Chicago police sergeant clashes with chairman Robert M. La Follette Jr. during testimony before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee (July 1, 1937) On Memorial Day 1937, unionists, their families and sympathisers gathered at Sam's Place, a former tavern and dance hall at 113th Street and Green Bay Avenue, that served as the headquarters of ...
Michael Jerome Corbitt (March 17, 1944 – July 27, 2004) was a police chief of Willow Springs, Illinois from 1973 until 1982, a three-time convicted felon, and an associate of Chicago Outfit mobsters such as Sal Bastone, Sam "Momo" Giancana and Antonino "Tony," "Joe Batters" Accardo. He became a cooperating witness after being convicted of ...
Garry Francis McCarthy (born May 4, 1959) is the Chief of Police in Willow Springs, Illinois and previous Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. [2] He was a candidate for mayor of Chicago in the 2019 Chicago mayoral election .
When Amy Nace-DeGonda first began working in social services, she’d never heard of human trafficking. The federal law that protects victims was in its infancy, having only just passed in 2000.
The investigation is ongoing, police said, and further charges against several other individuals are pending. Anyone who has information about this case or is a victim of human/labor trafficking ...
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) notes that while only 15% of trafficking cases identified by law enforcement involve labor trafficking, there is significantly more labor trafficking victims seeking service than sex trafficking victims. They suggest that labor trafficking victims are harder to identify, that police and prosecutors were ...