Frank Main

Seventeen cops hired since 2016 have been arrested and washed out of the police department, the Chicago Sun-Times found. Twenty-one more young officers have died, including seven killed in the line of duty and two others who were fatally shot.

One of every six Chicago cops hired since 2016 is no longer on the payroll. About 950 of the more than 5,750 people hired in that period have left. Their average time with the department? Not even three years. Many moved to suburban police departments.

Acting as his own lawyer, Robert Ellis persuaded a Cook County judge to throw out the evidence in his 2021 police-impersonation case that accused him of faking that he was a cop outside Sox park. Ellis' legal troubles aren’t over, but it’s a big victory.

Some stakeholders in the county justice system are skeptical of Martinez's finding that nearly 75% of criminal defendants failed to show for hearings in their cases, suspecting political motives.

James Bond, 52, could get a minimum sentence of 15 years if convicted. He's accused of preying on a participant in a summer youth employment program in Gary, Indiana. Bond joined the city's police department in 2001.

James Yates, now out of prison and running a construction business, says the police in the south suburb aren’t giving his son’s killing enough attention because "they think ... if it’s a Black kid, finding the perpetrator is not important.'"

Even after the Illinois State Police revoked his Firearm Owner's Identification Card this month, 74-year-old Camerino Campusano put a cousin on a bus with 11 guns to take to Mexico, according to federal authorities.

Abdul Wahed, a 26-year-old India native in the U.S. on a student visa, is accused of filing tens of thousands of fraudulent claims in 2023.

As DNC looms, so do concerns over the Chicago Police Department's response to protests

Sean Grusd pleaded guilty last year to stealing $23 million from investors in Chicago and elsewhere. With the latest allegation, prosecutors now want him locked up until sentencing.