Want to know why so many people complain about St. Patrick's Day? Here's video proof; no one wins here. (Discretion advised.) more ›

A police sergeant assigned to the Gresham District on the South side has turned himself in and ordered held on $20,000 bond for an incident last October where he was caught on videotape smacking around a handcuffed suspect outside a fast food restaurant. more ›

Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit today to immediately strip former Chicago Police Lieutenant Jon Burge of his pension, which was saved last week when the four cops elected to the eight-person pension review board deadlocked the vote to revoke Burge's pension. more ›

For people who believe the 4-1/2 years in prison former Chicago Police lieutenant Jon Burge received last week wasn't nearly enough, today's vote by the police pension board that allows Burge to retain his pension should have all the flavor of a sugar-coated turd. Five votes were needed to revoke Burge's pension and the eight member-panel — half voted to the board by the Police Department, half appointed by Mayor Daley — was split right down the middle. Want to take a guess as to which side voted for Burge to keep his pension? more ›

John Conroy, whose work detailing the police brutality of former Chicago Police Lieutenant Jon Burge and his underlings for close to two decades at the Reader is one of the best local examples of stellar journalism you'll ever read, was the proverbial fly on the wall as Burge was sentenced last week to 4-1/2 years in prison for perjury and obstruction of justice. Conroy's account of Judge Joan Lefkow's lengthy rebuke of Burge before handing down the sentence can be read at the Better Government Association's website. It makes for a fitting epilogue to what really has become Conroy's life's work. more ›

As was mentioned briefly last night in "Extra Extra," former Chicago Police Lieutenant Jon Burge was sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison for his perjury and obstruction of justice convictions. the sentence imposed by Judge Joan Lefkow is more than the 15-21 months recommended by the federal probation sentencing board, but a far cry from the 24-30 years prosecutors were allegedly aiming for. more ›

The sentencing hearing for former Chicago Police lieutenant Jon Burge enters its second day. Yesterday saw testimony from both victims of Burge's torture practices when he was at Area 2 Headquarters and from colleagues and friends of the man who's come to epitomize police brutality in Chicago. more ›

Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis must be counting down the days until his contract is up, so he can get the hell out of Dodge. Two of the cops he suspended in connection to an alleged police brutality incident earlier this month are now suing Weis for defamation of character. more ›

The investigation into a police brutality probe widened yesterday with the announcement that six more police officers have been stripped of their duties, raising the number of officers reprimanded in connection to the case to seven. more ›

According to the Tribune, a key city council committee approved a $700,000 settlement with two Southwest side men for alleged police brutality in the summer of 2008.

The settlement, set to be considered Wednesday by the full council, relates to a July 2008 early morning incident at the Southwest Side home of Gustavo Arreola and his son, Juan-Carlos Arreola. more ›

Embattled Police Superintendent Jody Weis just can't catch a break. On Friday, Cook County Circuit Judge William Maki upheld the Chicago Police Board's decision to suspend Officer William Cozzi instead of firing him for the 2005 beating of a wheelchaired man was the correct one. The incident took place in August of 2005 at at Norwegian American Hospital in Humboldt Park. Video of the beating shows then-60-year-old Randle Miles handcuffed and shackled to a wheelchair while Cozzi hit him ten times. Miles had been stabbed by a woman earlier in the day and rather than seeking treatment had "downed a bottle of gin" instead. At the insistence of friends, he finally sought treatment at the hospital where he became "agitated" and "abusive," causing hospital staff to summon Cozzi. Miles was charged with resisting arrest, despite video evidence to the contrary, and the charges were later dropped. more ›

Wow, it's been hours since Al Sharpton was in the news, so here we are today with a new round of Sharpton headlines. He held a press conference outside the Mayor's office this morning demanding that the City effectively treat its police brutality issues--or Sharpton will campaign against Chicago's Olympic bid. He also urged aldermen to reject Daley's nominee for police superintendent Jody Weis's because Daley selected Weis without input from the black community. Psst,... more ›