Eddie Johnson

City Hall released more information about the firing of former CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson, but officials dismissed calls to release the full Inspector General’s report on the incident. NBC 5’s Patrick Fazio explains why.

Editor’s Note: The body camera footage of the incident can be found in the video player above. The city of Chicago has released body camera footage and other documentation related to the night former police Supt. Eddie Johnson was found slumped over the wheel of his SUV in October 2019. Johnson ultimately was fired after he lied to Chicago Mayor…

The city of Chicago has released body camera footage and other documentation related to the night former police Supt. Eddie Johnson was found slumped over the wheel of his SUV in October 2019. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez has the story.

In response to an open records request filed by NBC5 and other media outlets, the city of Chicago has released body camera footage and other documentation related to the night former police Supt. Eddie Johnson was found slumped over the wheel of his SUV in October 2019, but said that other information, including the Inspector General’s report, will not be…

CPD officers find former Supt. Eddie Johnson slumped behind the wheel of his SUV in Oct. 2019 in this body camera footage released by the city.

The Chicago Police Board will take its next step forward in the search for a new police superintendent Wednesday, as the board will hold a public meeting to nominate three candidates for the vacant position. The position, held on an interim basis by former Los Angeles Police Superintendent Charlie Beck since former Superintendent Eddie Johnson was relieved of his duties…

More than two years after a Chicago Police Department SUV mysteriously crashed in a ditch on the South Side, city officials continue to fight the release of all records relating to the crash.

In the latest chapter of a two-year fight for answers, Judge Pamela Meyerson ruled Thursday that the Chicago Police Department must publicly release its investigation of a crash involving two of its officers. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos has the story.

A report says Chicago’s fired police superintendent is receiving a monthly pension of more than $15,800

Attorneys for actor Jussie Smollett have asked the city of Chicago turn over documents that show former police Superintendent Eddie Johnson was “untruthful or misleading in any statement” before he was fired last month, in an apparent bid to undermine Johnson’s credibility.

A report by actor Jussie Smollett, who claimed he was the victim of a racist, homophobic attack, would trigger a year’s worth of headlines in Chicago and worldwide. Today, it’s still debated if Smollett was the victim of an assault or if the City of Chicago was the victim of a hoax. NBC 5’s Katie Kim investigates.

NBC 5 Investigates has joined a lawsuit by the Better Government Association in an effort to gain access to records to the chain of events leading to the firing of former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey has more.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s surprise announcement on Dec. 2 that Police Supt. Eddie Johnson had been fired capped 26 hours of back-and-forth on how best to present the public argument and break the news to members of the Chicago Police Department, among others.

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.

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

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”...

The unceremonious firing of Chicago’s police superintendent just weeks before his retirement has rattled a department that, under his leadership, was seeking to restore public confidence since the release of a 2014 video showing a white officer killing a black teenager with 16 gunshots. Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Monday for “ethical lapses” stemming from an October…

A female Chicago police officer who was reportedly seen on video drinking with and kissing the now-fired police superintendent the night he was found asleep behind the wheel of his SUV has been accused of tampering with a cellphone investigators wanted to examine, a police department spokesman said Friday. Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said officials noticed that the phone was…

The political fallout continues in the firing of former Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, and NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has the details.

The female colleague who was with Supt. Eddie Johnson on the evening his scandal began was reportedly transferred as the situation escalated.  WBEZ reports the woman, who was at a bar with Johnson on Oct. 16 hours before he was found slumped behind the wheel of his car, was later transferred off of Johnson’s security team weeks later. Citing department...