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Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is moving to fire an officer who’s been accused of lying about a fatal shooting.

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Efforts by the FBI and the Chicago Police Department have seen significant reductions in shooting incidents in two historically violent police districts.

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Prosecutors on Thursday added 16 additional counts to a Chicago cop’s murder charges, one for each bullet he fired at a black teenager in 2014.

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A pregnant woman was among seven people killed Wednesday in Chicago, five of them murdered in a two hour window.

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The Justice Department said Chicago police have a broken system of accountability, poor training and supervision, and has consistently violated the Fourth Amendment in its use of force.

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Researchers at Columbia University hope computer analysis of language in social media posts can help stop gang violence before it starts.

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It was a violent Thanksgiving week in Chicago for law enforcement -- four police involved shootings in a nine day stretch, with four completely different stories to tell.

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Chicago's top cop says increased enforcement over the weekend led to a reduction in violence, but 37 people were still shot in Chicago from Friday to Monday.

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Chicago police discovered a WWII-era Sten MKV submachine gun in a “vacant” apartment “empty of furniture” during a drug bust Monday night. The raid on the South Side apartment came after police witnessed Emmanuel Williams remove drugs from under a garbage can on a street corner less than a block away from his residence, and […]

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A poorly planned Halloween prank went awry when a Chicago man opened fire with a paintball gun and received returning fire from a very real gun, leaving one man hospitalized from a gunshot wound. It was bound to be a spooky night filled with fun and laughs at the expense of Chicago residents fearing for […]

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The study revealed that a person is 500 times more likely to get shot if they are within close proximity to liquor stores in either the South Side or West Side, as opposed to other areas in the neighborhood which are farther away from the stores.

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