Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Garry McCarthy on Monday defended their decision to disband specialized police units and return hundreds of officers to beat patrol under pressure from aldermen who want those units restored.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Garry McCarthy on Monday defended their decision to disband specialized police units and return hundreds of officers to beat patrol under pressure from aldermen who want those units restored.
Chicago has quietly embarked on a dramatic change in 911 dispatch to free police officers to respond to the most serious crimes, Police Supt. Garry McCarthy disclosed Thursday. The city's outdated dispatch policy sent police officers to 70 percent of all 911 calls received, compared to 30 percent in other major cities.
Fox News aired an "investigation" last night on Bill O'Reilly's show about the murder rate in Chicago. It's worth watching, if only to marvel at how uninformative five minutes of television can possibly be. Read more...
A week after dozens of people were shot in a deadly outbreak of violence, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and police Superintendent Garry McCarthy announced a gang crackdown on the West Side.
For the first time in public, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy promised his department will never conduct blanket surveillance of Muslims like the New York Police Department did in Newark, N.J., when he was chief there.
