Some heated words from Alvarez, who is facing strong criticism from politicians and the public who question why it took 13 months to indict Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke for murder. A dash cam video released last week shows the officer shooting McDonald 16 times. Cook County commissione...
As CBS 2's Steven Graves reported, the Cook County Sheriff's office worked quickly to release a 30-second video of the incident, only 19 hours after it happened. Just before 7:20 p.m. Wednesday, a sheriff's police officer was on patrol in unincorporated Coo...
“The person who was reportedly wearing body armor and taking photographs of schools when he was shot by Zion police has died, Lake County police said in a news release. Christopher Covelli, spokesman for the Lake County M...
Defense attorney Steve Greenberg said that prosecutors in Cook County have “never once told me that an officer is on the list.” “The problem I have with it is that [prosecutors] will try to get someone to plead guilty — not everyone but many — or try and see if ...
CHICAGO-Ex-Cook County Commissioner Jeff Tobolski pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Chicago to committing extortion and filing a false tax return, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Tobolski admitted to taking part in an extortion scheme involving a McCook police officer, a restaurant own...
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“On a societal level, the practice of courtroom law, by necessity, has changed to keep pace with our real-time, instant gratification-driven, Internet information-based culture,” he says. “For example, most modern-day jurors are no longer attuned to long-winded flights of oratory with ref...
2013 Los Angeles airport shooting On Friday, November 1, 2013,TSA officer Gerardo I. Hernandez, 39, was shot and killed by a lone gunman at Los Angeles International Airport. Law enforcement officers identified the suspect as 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia, who was shot and wounded by law...
McGee used to be a cook county correctional officer himself. He said a supervisor violated jail policies when he ordered the guard to do the safety check of the dorm not only by himself—but without backup and without any other officers on the floor. ...