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Chicago Police Supt. David Brown says that the city will commit more resources to combating shootings as summer approaches, and as gun violence increases. Over the weekend, a total of 36 shootings were reported by Chicago police, with nine individuals killed and nearly 40 more injured. Brown says that the police department will continue to shift hours and cancel days…

After at least nine people were arrested following large gatherings in downtown Chicago on Saturday night, police are promising more enforcement action, but some members of the public say that the department is not doing enough. Amid reports of scattered fights and vandalism in the city on Saturday, police confirmed that nine individuals, including eight juveniles and one adult, were…

Chicago Police Department leadership will be changing their schedules in anticipation of an increase in violence as weather warms and the city begins to open further during the coronavirus pandemic, the city’s top cop said Monday.

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown is scheduled to take questions from the media on Thursday afternoon, exactly one year into the job and one week after the release of video showing an officer fatally shooting Adam Toledo.

The family of Adam Toledo, the 13-year-old boy fatally shot by a Chicago police officer late last month, will see body camera footage of the shooting next week, attorneys for the family said Friday.

The family of Adam Toledo said Monday that the 13-year-old boy who Chicago police fatally shot last week was “loved and supported,” issuing a statement to “correct the hurtful and false mischaracterization” from an alderman who said the child “had nobody” in his life who could “claim him as their own, except a gang.”

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown on Monday released new information in the department’s narrative of the fatal police shooting of Adam Toledo, detailing why the 13-year-old wasn’t identified for two days but declining to say whether or not the boy was holding the gun recovered at the scene.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday called for a review of the Chicago Police Department’s foot-chase policy, a week after a 13-year-old boy was killed by police during a foot chase in Little Village.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Supt. David Brown will give an “update on public safety” Monday morning after a weekend in which at least 34 people were shot, seven fatally on Easter Sunday, as the city continues to see a spike in violent crime.

The mother of a 13-year-old boy fatally shot in Little Village by Chicago Police gave an emotional plea Friday, asking for answers to her son’s death.

Police shot and killed a 13-year-old boy after what officials described as an “armed confrontation” in Little Village early Monday, although no video and few details have been released so far. Adam Toledo, 13, who lived in the neighborhood, was shot in his chest and later died, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. In a statement, police said officers…

Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation into a 2020 Chicago police shooting at a Red Line station that was caught on cellphone video, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.

On Monday, Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability turned over its investigation of Ronald Watts to Police Superintendent David Brown. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports.

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown delivers an update after an off-duty officer was shot during an incident on the city’s South Side in the Calumet Heights neighborhood.

Chicago police are continuing their efforts to locate and prosecute individuals involved in a surge of carjackings, and Police Superintendent David Brown says that at least five suspects have been placed into custody this week alone. According to Brown, those suspects, ranging in age from 15 to 39, were taken into custody within a 48-hour period from Monday to Wednesday….

The country is on alert over security concerns at the upcoming presidential inauguration after the FBI asked state and local police to share any intel about right wing extremists’ potential plots against the government. NBC 5’s Trina Orlando reports

The president of the Chicago Police officers’ union says 17 officers and supervisors have been suspended for their involvement in an incident in which several officers were captured on video lounging in the office of a congressman during last summer’s unrest.

Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown announced Wednesday that Deputy Supt. Barbara West, the third-highest ranking sworn member of the department, informed him that she plans to retire after 26 years on the force. West, according to a press release from the department, became the highest-ranking Black woman in CPD history earlier this year when she was appointed to head the…