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Fewer people shot, killed in city this year — but summer looms

The mayor and other city officials have attributed this year’s downtick in violence to an initiative that has flooded 15 communities with new resources. Crime experts say that’s premature.

Chicago Sun-Times

SA court action over prisoner newspaper

A prisoner advocacy group is heading the Supreme Court in a bid to overturn a decision by SA jail authorities to disallow inmates its election newspaper.

AAP

'It hits everybody in a way': Violence in Chicago's downtown reflects troubles in its neighborhoods

CHICAGO — Over a 48-hour period two weekends ago, three shootings erupted within a mile of one another in Chicago’s downtown area, leaving two people dead. During that same time, some 17 other people were shot around the city, most of them in neighborhoods where a higher level of violence…

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South Australia's corrections department facing legal action after refusal to supply prisoners with voting materials

Lawyers will file proceedings against the South Australian corrections department in the Supreme Court on Friday morning.

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Mayor takes casino path of least resistance, but is it a winning hand?

Just because Ald. Walter Burnett is willing to put up with the inconvenience of a casino doesn’t mean Mayor Lori Lightfoot will easily round up the other 25 City Council votes she needs to ratify Bally’s River West site.

Chicago Sun-Times

3 killed, 10 wounded in shootings in Chicago Tuesday

In one of the attacks, four people were wounded when two gunmen opened fire on an SUV stopped at a light in the Loop.

Chicago Sun-Times

Four wounded when gunmen open fire on SUV in Loop — day after mayor decries growing gun violence downtown

A blue Dodge Durango was stopped in the 400 block of South Wells Street when the gunmen fired from a sidewalk around 1:35 a.m. Tuesday, according to police.

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Top cop touts decline in murders, shootings in April

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said the department will add officers to downtown, targeted neighborhoods where crime has been “displaced.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Downtown shootings continue spike with 64% jump in 2022

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday said she’s “not happy about this weekend” after a spate of shootings in the area, noting that city officials need to “step up our efforts downtown.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ‘not happy’ about downtown violence over the weekend

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday that she was “not happy” about violence that again touched downtown Chicago over the weekend and ended with a cancellation of Sunday night’s performance of the play "Moulin Rouge."

Chicago Tribune

Wilson wants CTA to bring back conductors and its police unit to stop ‘crisis’ of mass transit crime

“If she has 71 security officers around her house, why can’t she protect the citizens that get robbed and things of that nature on the CTA?” asked mayoral candidate Willie Wilson, who rode the Red Line downtown from 95th Street Monday morning.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rothbury Highland Pipe Band 'excited' to perform in new Scottish kilts and instruments for Queen's Jubilee weekend

The traditional marching band received a donation of £5000 from Northumberland Freemasons to replace their old uniforms

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Proposal would provide benefits to spouses of police officers, other first responders who die by suicide

The push for the suicide benefits ordinance, which would be retroactive to Jan. 1, 2018, included pleas from two women whose husbands took their own lives after serving a combined 30 years on the Chicago Police Department.

Chicago Sun-Times

A violent weekend is a reminder that curbing crime will take collective effort

Law enforcement officials, anti-violence experts, outreach workers, youth workers, community activists and others who care about making sure every one of our neighborhoods is safe all need to put their heads together and start talking. No one has all the answers.

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Chicago sees most violent weekend this year: 37 hurt and 7 killed by gunfire

In January, just days after Chicago closed the books on its deadliest year in a quarter-century, Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared 2022 a “make-or-break year” for tamping down surging violent crime. This weekend, however, proved to be the year’s first major stumbling block.

Chicago Sun-Times

Former state’s attorney candidate says business, union leaders fed up with Lightfoot, urging him to run for mayor — and he’s listening

Bill Conway’s father, William E. Conway Jr., helped found the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, and has a net worth pegged at $3.5 billion in 2020. He donated $10.5 million to his son’s 2020 run for Cook County state’s attorney.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPD shifting cops to more violent beats as summer approaches

With shootings and homicides both down after a historically violent 2021, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said the department is now prioritizing 55 police beats that account for half the violence in the city.

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Time for unvaccinated cops to choose health and common sense, not politics

It’s unclear what discipline the city will hand down to cops who won’t get vaccinated and don’t have medical or religious exemptions.

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Chicago police review board completes Toledo shooting probe

Chicago’s police review board says it has completed its investigation into the shooting death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo last year and delivered its report to Police Superintendent David Brown

Chicago Sun-Times

Civilian review agency concludes investigation into fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said it has forwarded its findings to Police Supt. David Brown. COPA did not disclose its recommendations.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago police make progress on reform, but not enough to celebrate

Without community trust, all other changes implemented to better the police department are at risk of crashing down in a chilling domino effect.

Chicago Tribune

CPD reforms require ‘more than a simple checklist,’ monitor says with release of new consent-decree progress report

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department has improved its training processes for officers and “devoted significant attention” to its foot pursuit policy, while also struggling with community engagement and building trust, according to a report on the department’s progress toward making court-ordered reforms.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPD should halt controversial push for more ‘positive’ interactions, monitor says in echoing AG

CPD Supt. David Brown set a goal of 1.5 million such interactions this year. The Illinois attorney general’s office already likened the initiative to a “quota system” that’s “rife with significant downsides.”

Chicago Sun-Times

CPD makes significant headway on reform but still grapples with longstanding problems: report

While the Chicago Police Department is at some level of compliance with roughly three-fourths of a federal consent decree, a new report raises alarms about staffing, a delayed foot pursuit policy and efforts to build community trust.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois Democrats join President Biden in taking aim at specter of elusive ‘ghost guns’

The Illinois measure — which is on its way to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk — requires all firearms, including 3D printed guns, to have serial numbers, which would effectively ban ghost guns. It’s the lack of those identifying numbers that has made the guns undetectable.

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