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Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Police officials touted that detectives in a violent year cleared the highest number of cases in nearly 20 years, but that doesn’t mean most killers will face justice, a Sun-Times analysis found.

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Friday granted the Chicago Police Department a three-year extension to comply with the consent decree, giving the department a total of eight years to implement a series of much-anticipated court-ordered reforms.

The mayor estimates the cost of completing those massive reforms will be between $50 million and $100 million.

Hector Hernandez was shot 13 times by former CPD officers Patrick Kelly and Antonio Corral in April 2014.

CHICAGO -- The voices raised in unison in the community room of the 12th District Chicago Police Department station on a recent Thursday evening belonged to less than a dozen youth singing gospel and R&B songs. It was a scene that may have looked better suited for a church or…

A Sun-Times analysis and a scathing memo from the state attorney general’s office make clear that the program, as it now stands, is failing miserably.

A lawsuit filed by the brother of a man who died in a collision with a CPD squad car claims the vehicle driven by Officer Adan Ramirez was speeding through the residential neighborhood without its emergency lights on or its sirens activated.

No officers will face criminal charges in the shootings of Adam Toledo and Anthony Alvarez. That should not mean the officers, and the Chicago Police Department as a whole, should not be held accountable for needed change.