Our criminal justice system is placing people increasingly at risk. Yet, only the police are under a federal consent decree.

Lavelle Schaffer went from sleeping on the train every night to keeping the streets of Chicago safe every day.

City residents and people from the suburbs trickled into the community room of an Englewood church with handguns, shotguns ...

An investigation by Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) is underway on Saturday after a man was injured ...

A man is in serious condition and was rushed to a hospital by two off-duty Chicago police officers after he was shot in the ...

A man who ran an illegal gambling operation at a Kettering internet cafe raided in May by local law enforcement was sentenced to time served. Sanjay Natwarbhai Patel, 44, of Naperville, Illinois, in ...

Giovanni A. Saldivar, 19, was charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer, aggravated battery with the use of a firearm, and aggravated discharge of a firearm. Police said that ...

At least several evidence markers were found on the ground, and the back window of an unmarked squad car, a Ford Expedition, ...

Dexter Reed, 26, was fatally shot by Chicago police officers in March after Reed shot and wounded one of their own during a ...

In 1975, retired Massachusetts State Police Officer Dana Owen survived being shot twice in the head, and he's published a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A retired Chicago police sergeant was critically injured in a North Side shooting on Monday morning, officials said. Police said the shooting happened at the busy North Center ...

A Chicago-area police officer died after being shot while responding to a "call involving an armed offender" seen leaving a bank, officials say. The killing of Oak Park Police Detective Allan ...