COPA has released video of a deadly Dec. 9 Chicago police-involved shooting in West Ridge. The family of Roberto Calvario, Jr ...

A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

CHICAGO — An investigation by Chicago’s Office of Police Accountability (COPA) is underway on Thursday morning after a CPD officer opened fire on a group of apparent thieves after he was hit by one of ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — New details have emerged concerning the involvement of two people wanted in connection with an officer-involved shooting in Chicago and a subsequent high-speed chase Monday afternoon ...

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability determined police were not justified in stopping the man’s car and should not have searched him or his car after handcuffing him in Chicago’s River North ...

Four years ago, 20 members of the Chicago City Council signed a letter to then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, “vehemently” opposing her nominee to lead the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Andrea ...

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This story was copublished with the Invisible Institute. Content note: This story discusses police violence. On the final day of May in 2020, at the height of demonstrations against police violence ...