A Chicago Police Department Commander serving on the city's Southwest Side died of a heart attack Saturday night, according to a release from the department. Cmdr. John Kupczyk was in charge of the large Chicago Lawn District, which covers such neighborhoods as Marquette Park, Gage Park and surrounds Midway Airport.
Despite the objection of conservationists, the Chicago Police Department will be allowed to construct an outdoor firing range along the Calumet River near 134th Street.
Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and the head of the police union got into a verbal shootout Monday over whether there’s a shortage of officers. The standoff came during McCarthy's appearance at the City Club of Chicago.
Criminologist David Kennedy thinks he knows how to stop gun violence in America’s cities, and he says, contrary to public debate and popular opinion, it's not that hard. The Chicago Police Department is implementing the violence-reduction ideas from his latest book, Don’t Shoot.
The Chicago Police Department has reshuffled and reassigned top officials’ jobs in an effort intended to trim “the fat on executive staff” and save $1 million, Supt. Garry McCarthy announced today.
