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A Black woman who was shot and wounded inside a vehicle by a police officer who also fatally shot her 19-year-old boyfriend told about 200 people gathered at an emotional rally in suburban Chicago that she’s fighting to be there for her son

All northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive were closed after a rollover crash Friday in the Gold Coast. The two-vehicle crash happened about 2:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the 1200 block of North Lake Shore, according to preliminary information from Chicago police. At least one vehicle rolled over. All northbound lanes were blocked, police said. It was not…

While the majority of protests have remained peaceful, the university’s president is calling the group’s latest actions “disgusting” after a banner was burned in front of his home as protesters chanted profanities.

Winnebago County sheriff’s deputies and Rockford police officers will pair with mental health experts when responding to emergency psychiatric and suicidal episodes as a new approach over arrests. Law enforcement will team with Rosecrance crisis-intervention specialists to create a three-month pilot program, beginning next month, in efforts to divert people in psychiatric crises away from the criminal justice system...

Security camera video shows three armed individuals entering an Indiana home and a boy jumping to defend his family.

Denver’s STAR pilot program recognizes that a mental health worker and a paramedic may be better suited to respond to some 911 calls than police.

A Denver pilot program called STAR, or Support Team Assisted Response, is changing how the city responds to 911 calls by sending mental health workers and paramedics, rather than police, to respond to calls that don’t involve crimes.

Recent shootings of police officers and protests that have left scores of officers injured are stark reminders of the dangers facing law enforcement as the country grapples with police killings of African Americans.

Fort Worth homicide detectives hope a 45-year-old letter will help solve an equally old homicide.

An advocacy group says a police shooting that wounded a 13-year-old autistic boy in Salt Lake City reveals shortfalls in the way officers respond to a mental health crisis

President Donald Trump discussed split-second decisions made by law enforcement saying “they choke, sometimes” and that is what get’s all the attention, but the “tens of thousands of great things they do, nobody covers that.”

The shooting of Jacob Blake has caused many to question the justification of deadly force by police. Black law enforcement expert Lynda Williams says the shooting was unjustified and is providing recommendations for law enforcement, such as mandatory de-escalation training for all officers.

Residents in Antioch have growing fears of protests coming to their neighborhood after 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested in connection to a shooting in Kenosha Tuesday night that left two people dead and one person injured. Rittenhouse was arrested by Antioch police at an apartment complex on Wednesday morning. He will be extradited to Wisconsin, where the shooting took place,…

Residents in Antioch have growing fears of protests coming to their neighborhood after 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested in connection to a shooting in Kenosha Tuesday night that left two people dead and one person injured. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

Author Dwayne Bryant stops by to discuss his book “The Stop: Improving Police & Community Relations” and speaks about surviving an encounter with the police if you’re Black.

The father of a Black man who was shot, apparently in the back, by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says his son was left paralyzed from the waist down

President Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities “plagued” by violent crime. But many who fear to call the cops during these times ask, does this initiative work? Dominique Johnson, the Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Center for Policing Equity joins LX News to break down her findings on city crimes and if this...

Police are warning residents about a series of robberies since last week by suspects posing as police officers in Albany Park, Belmont Central and Avondale on the Northwest Side. In each case, a man pulled up in a black vehicle, pointed a flashlight at the victim and demanded the person’s ID or wallet, according to a community alert from...

A community garden that includes a fence and shed painted in support of the LGBTQ community was damaged Wednesday night in Aurora, and on Thursday, the garden organizer told NBC 5 she thinks the incident was intentional. Ellie Esparza, who donated her time and money to build the garden near North Union and Claim streets, said a security camera recorded…