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MYSTERIOUS: 5 - What They Never Told You

Mayoral candidates’ plans for crime, UIC faculty ends strike and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Philly's next mayor will inherit an unprecedented gun violence crisis. Here's how it's defining the race

PHILADELPHIA — Crime has been a top political issue in Philadelphia for as long as anyone can remember, but few recall a time when it was quite this salient.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Crime is a top issue in Chicago mayoral race: How would nine candidates address it?

All nine mayoral candidates have released at least a brief public safety plan — or, in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s case, touted what she posed as her achievements in office.

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Newspaper seeks sanctions after police search of slain reporter’s phone

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Review-Journal is asking a judge to impose sanctions on the Metropolitan Police Department for not informing the newspaper that investigators have searched the cellphone of slain reporter Jeff German.

Tribune News Service

San Francisco Sits on Carry Permit Applications As Legislators Consider New Gun Restrictions

The city has not granted a single permit since the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms last June.

Reason

Brooklyn Center police recruitment video draws backlash

MINNEAPOLIS — Activists and community members voiced outrage at a rally outside Brooklyn Center City Hall on Monday evening to denounce what they call a hyper-militarized video produced by the Police Department to recruit officers to the force.

Tribune News Service

As Chicago police prepare to relaunch ‘gang database,’ concerns remain the tool could unfairly sweep up many

CHICAGO — Critics remain concerned by the Chicago Police Department’s impending relaunch of its much-criticized “gang database,” a tool intended to identify people with connections to street gangs, even after the process to revamp it was paused last fall at the behest of the city’s new police oversight committee.

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Briefs case: Police officer's act was (under) wearing thin, according to lawsuit

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police Department’s 26th District faced widespread criticism in June 2020, after its officers stood by as white vigilantes with bats and hammers terrorized Black Lives Matter protesters in Fishtown.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Chicago sees dip in homicides after spikes during pandemic and unrest over policing

CHICAGO — After a two-year spike during the pandemic and national outrage over police accountability, Chicago has begun to see a decline in homicides, as the Chicago Police Department works to correct crime trends to levels before the coronavirus and turmoil over the killing of George Floyd took hold.

Chicago Tribune

Police confirm shooting at Minnesota's Mall of America

MINNEAPOLIS — There was a shooting inside the Mall of America on Friday night, a spokesman for the Bloomington Police Department has confirmed.

Tribune News Service

Chicago mayoral candidates pledge to give media access to police scanner traffic as city moves to encryption

CHICAGO — Most of Chicago’s major mayoral candidates said they would undo Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s controversial plan to block live transmission of Police Department scanner traffic from the media if they are elected next year.

Chicago Tribune

'Catfish' cop used his father as a reference to get job as deputy

WASHINGTON — Austin Lee Edwards, the cop who “catfished” a 15-year-old Riverside, California, girl and killed her grandparents and mother before taking his own life, used his own father as one of three character references on his application for a job as a sheriff’s deputy.

Los Angeles Times

Departed Tampa police chief’s husband sees rapid rise at City Hall

TAMPA, Fla. — Two years before Mary O’Connor was named as Tampa police chief, a reign that ended with her humiliating exit from public life earlier this month, her husband was hired to run the city’s neighborhood enhancement division — still known colloquially as code enforcement.

Tribune News Service

Number of Philly cops out injured drops 31% after Inquirer investigation uncovers abuse

PHILADELPHIA — For years, Philadelphia police officials had been alarmed by an internal list that tracked the number of officers who were out of work but still getting paid.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Chicago police officer tied to disgraced unit fired 18 years after scandal

CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer was fired late Thursday for his role 18 years ago in one of the biggest scandals in department history.

Tribune News Service

Ex-Boise police captain who espoused racism says city discriminated over age, disability

BOISE, Idaho — A retired Boise police captain who has espoused white supremacist views and prompted an in-depth investigation of potential racism at the Boise Police Department filed a complaint against the city with the Idaho Human Rights Commission in November.

Chicago Sun-Times

Candidates for Chicago’s new police district councils split between staunch defenders of police and those who favor defunding

There are many factors driving the 122 candidates’ desire to become part of the grand experiment of civilian oversight at the grassroots level. Two major camps have emerged: Police supporters determined to take the shackles off officers and those who believe CPD has victimized communities of color…

Tribune News Service

‘Officer down’: Raleigh police release video of confrontation with mass shooting suspect

RALEIGH, N.C. — The city of Raleigh released a small portion of police officers’ body camera video Thursday showing the confrontation between police and the suspect in the mass shooting in the Hedingham neighborhood in October.

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Tampa police chief pulls out badge, asks deputy to ‘let us go’ during traffic stop

TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa police Chief Mary O’Connor identified herself as chief, pulled out her badge and asked a Pinellas sheriff’s deputy to “just let us go” after she and her husband were pulled over in a golf cart last month, a video shared by the Tampa Police Department on…

Bangkok Post

Multiple people fatally shot at Walmart in US

Multiple people were shot and killed inside a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, on Tuesday night, according to a spokesperson with the Chesapeake Police Department.

Tribune News Service

NYPD lieutenant who nearly died of COVID wins fight for disability pension

NEW YORK — A New York Police Department lieutenant who nearly lost his life battling a COVID-19 infection he caught on the job has won his fight to retire with a disability pension.

Tribune News Service

Activists, lawyers call on DOJ to investigate KCK police for civil rights violations

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — More than 100 people braved the cold Thursday to urge the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a pattern-or-practice investigation of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department.

Reason

Brickbat: Whiskey's Too Rough…

Several New York City Police Department officers have been placed on limited duty while the department investigates claims they stole and drank beer while on duty at a music festival. At least one officer stole the beer, according to reports, while the others passed it around.

Chicago Sun-Times

Data should be driving Police Department dollars, civilian oversight panel says

“We need to spend better and more strategically,” to cut city’s violence, eliminate “untenable” working conditions for officers, commission’s president says.

Los Angeles Times

Oakland police are doubling down on a tough-on-crime plan. Some activists are skeptical

It was late September, and to some, Oakland seemed a city on the brink.

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