Rebecca Anderson

October, 2007
The career–"and the guilt or innocence–"of Chicago Police Officer Serena Daniels will not be decided in a criminal court but in a hearing room of the Chicago Police Board. Daniels is charged with firing her weapon without justification and disobeying orders in the June 4 shooting death of LaTanya Haggerty, a 26-year-old unarmed motorist. Superintendent of Police Terry Hillard has recommended...
October, 2007
On Wednesday morning, Jan. 3, 1996, Chicago Police Officer Eve M. Daly did not report for duty at the 24th District Station, at 6464 N. Clark St. in Rogers Park. At 8:45 a.m., her supervisor, Sgt. Gregory McHugh, went to Daly's condominium at 6771 N. Olmsted Ave. to check on her. He found her on her bedroom floor, dead from a gunshot wound through the mouth, police reports show. On Jan. 4,...
October, 2007
Across the street from the Health Advocacy Project of Little Village on Chicago's Southwest Side, a restaurant serves carnitas (meat) and chorizo sausage, along with carrot and pineapple juice. A 4-foot sign nearby advertises three liters of Pepsi for $1.39. To the west, Cermak Road is dotted with signs advertising "carnitas" in big red letters. A Coca-Cola sign hangs outside Hector's Foods and a...
October, 2007
They seem to be everywhere: Professionally dressed men, most of them young and African American, walking the streets of Chicago, lugging bulky cardboard boxes balanced on luggage carts. They sell novelties: battery-operated massagers, coloring books, calculators, gumball machines and travel alar