The Chicago Police Board has received applications from 23 people who want to become the city’s next police superintendent, officials said Monday.

Monday marked the deadline for interested candidates to apply to become Chicago’s next top cop, and Interim Superintendent Charlie Beck weighed in on what he believes is most important as the city searches for the right candidate. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Monday marked the deadline for interested candidates to apply to become Chicago’s next top cop, and Interim Superintendent Charlie Beck weighed in on what he believes is most important as the city searches for the right candidate. During a speech at the City Club of Chicago, Beck said that he believes the new superintendent should view their job not...

Chicago’s interim police superintendent is discontinuing a so-called merit promotion system that rank-and-file cops have long complained rewards officers for who they know and not what skills they have to do the job. In a letter to the 13,400-member department obtained by the Chicago Tribune, Interim Superintendent Charlie Beck said Tuesday he’s heard that many officers have been “dissatisfied and discouraged”...

NBC 5’s Christian Farr has new details after former Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson made a statement following his ouster from the department.

Read the full statement below. Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson broke his silence after being fired from his job as the city’s top cop over what the mayor called “intolerable actions.”  Johnson denied the Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s allegations that he “intentionally mislead” her and the public on what happened when he was found slumped behind the wheel of a car on Oct....

Read the full statement below. Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson has released a statement after he was fired from his job as the city’s top cop one month before his planned retirement.  “I am making this public statement today, my first as the former superintendent of the Chicago Police Department,” he wrote. “I am of course disappointed that I could not...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces unexpected firing of Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson. 

Murders reported last month in Chicago were down from November 2018, according to statistics released by Chicago police.

Charlie Beck, the Los Angeles Police Department’s former chief and the newly announced interim top cop in Chicago, was asked Friday if he would consider becoming Chicago’s next police superintendent long-term. Beck said no, he wouldn’t.

Former Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck on Friday expressed his excitement to take on the role of Chicago’s interim top cop in the wake of Eddie Johnson’s retirement announcement. “This department can be the change,” he said. “This department can be the glue that binds this city together.”

Two women were detained Tuesday when one of them allegedly threw a powdery substance in the direction of LAPD Chief Charlie Beck during yet another raucous meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission.

Late “Batman” star Adam West was honored Thursday night at Los Angeles City Hall, with officials lighting the side of the building with a 70-foot high Bat-Signal

President Donald Trump held the first meeting of his full Cabinet on Monday, listing his accomplishments and then listening as those gathered heaped praise on him.

President Donald Trump preened before his Cabinet and the cameras on Monday, making claims that are unsupported by the record.

The nation’s most prominent domestic violence hotline reports a sharp increase in calls from abuse victims struggling with issues related to their immigration status. The National Domestic Violence Hotline, established by Congress in 1996 and partly reliant on federal funding, says in its newly released annual report that it responded to 323,660 phone calls, texts and online contacts in 2016....

Reports of sexual assaults and domestic violence among Los Angeles’ Latino population have plummeted since the beginning of the year, amid fears that immigrants in the country illegally could face deportation if they interact with police or appear in court, the city’s police chief said.

Prosecutors have decided not to charge Los Angeles police officers with a crime in the fatal shooting of a homeless black man on Skid Row last year.

Los Angeles Chief of Police Charlie Beck broke his pelvis on a rocky trail in the Tehachapi Mountains Saturday in a dirt bike accident.

Rap artist The Game is lending his celebrity to a Los Angeles Police Department public outreach campaign calling for an end to violence between young men of color.