Settling for Misconduct
Police misconduct payouts continue to break the bank in Chicago
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Despite spending more than $370 million on police misconduct lawsuits in six years, the city has not heeded official calls to analyze the cases for trends.
Criminal Justice
Five ways Chicago could regulate moonlighting cops
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Every major police department in the nation does more than Chicago to regulate police officers who moonlight as private security guards.
Criminal Justice
When Chicago cops moonlight, no one is watching
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The Chicago Police Department has the weakest oversight in the country of officers working second jobs as private security guards, and the consequences can be both deadly and costly to taxpayers.
Criminal Justice
Justice Department report on Chicago police, annotated
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We’ve combed through the full text of the DOJ’s civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department to highlight key excerpts and new data, and to provide context to the findings.
Criminal Justice
Can Chicago take on police union contracts this year?
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Activists are targeting provisions that shield officers from accountability for reform but the process is unlikely to be easy, or cheap.
Settling for Misconduct
How Emanuel’s police lawsuit budget puts more burden on taxpayers
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Year after year, Chicago spends much more than planned on police payouts and relies on costly borrowing to make up the difference.
Settling for Misconduct
In swift push for body cameras, Chicago cut contracting corners
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The city avoided competitive bidding in its contract for cameras, which could cost taxpayers over $30 million for technology that has yet to be shown to curb misconduct.
Criminal Justice
Police liability insurance ordinance introduced to Chicago City Council
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Ald. Gilbert Villegas is proposing a measure he says would protect taxpayers from bearing some of the excess costs of police misconduct lawsuit settlements.
Criminal Justice
Officer seen in shooting video indicted on federal civil rights charges
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An attorney for teens shot by Marco Proano says a dashcam video, which was first released publicly by the Reporter, helped differentiate this case from hundreds of other police shootings in the past decade.
Criminal Justice
Transparency compromised in Emanuel’s police oversight plan
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Existing laws shield reports from public view under the mayor’s plan to overhaul police accountability.