Month: March 2020

For the second month in a row, the Chicago Police Department issued a press release Sunday that claims violent crime is down 3% in the city this year. But there’s a problem. Violent crime is actually up by 13%.

Chicago police will not pursue any charges against Ariel Roman, the apparently unarmed man who was shot by an officer at the Grand Red Line station on Friday afternoon, according to CPD’s chief spokesperson.

After years of steady declines, Chicago police-involved shootings are on the rise again this year. And the latest incident, the subject of a federal criminal investigation, involves two cops who were on-boarded with some of the department’s most up-to-date training.