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Police training firm linked to ex-top cop got $2 million weeks after deal was terminated by his replacement

The check to Professional Law Enforcement Training was larger than all the previous payments to the company combined. The department wouldn’t explain it.

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Six candidates advance to semifinals of Chicago police superintendent search

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, a new civilian oversight body charged with leading the search, has until July 14 to pick three finalists and deliver those names to Mayor Brandon Johnson.

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Discipline eased for cops in former Rep. Bobby Rush’s office amid looting

Mayor Lori Lightfoot vowed accountability for the officers, but the penalties have been softened or eliminated, mostly in arbitration.

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Discipline eased for Chicago cops who lounged in Rep. Bobby Rush’s office during looting

Mayor Lori Lightfoot vowed accountability for the officers, but the penalties have been softened or eliminated, mostly in arbitration.

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Editorial: Former Chicago IG Joe Ferguson sounds the alarm on police reform. He’s right to do so

The needless, tragic murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teen, by a white Chicago police officer in 2014 put the city’s Police Department, and the need to reform it, in the national spotlight. McDonald’s death was a driving force behind the federally mandated consent decree that requires the Chicago Police…

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Chicago Police Board votes to fire sergeant in charge of botched Anjanette Young raid

The board voted 5-3 in favor of discharging Sgt. Alex Wolinksi, who was in charge when officers mistakenly burst into the home of social worker Anjanette Young in 2019.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago cops facing dismissal for fatally shooting armed man in 2018 instead get 10-day suspension

Former Supt. David Brown argued that 33-year-old Terrell Eason didn’t pose an ‘imminent threat’ when officers opened fire. The police board Thursday found them not guilty of using unnecessary deadly force.

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Chicago’s top cop search: civilian oversight panel starting in-person interviews

Anthony Driver, president of the Community Commission on Public Safety and Police Accountability, said input from rank-and-file officers at an FOP meeting last week is something former CPD Supt. David Brown never would have allowed.

Chicago Sun-Times

City ordered to pay $100,000 to lawyers of man body-slammed by Chicago police officer

The Chicago Police Department ruled Officer Jerald Williams used “massively excessive force” against a man with schizophrenia who was stopped for drinking in public, but city lawyers withheld those records.

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Chicago Police Department’s reform chief resigns, claims ‘retaliation’

Tina Skahill’s exit comes just months after the ouster of her predecessor Robert Boik, who was fired after criticizing former police Supt. David Brown’s decision to reassign nearly 50 officers under his command.

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Dorset ‘super reserve’ recreates ancient savannah habitat to boost biodiversity

Devon cattle stand in for extinct aurochs in project aimed at protecting precious species such as sand lizards

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You can now visit Britain's first 'super nature reserve' where ancient world is revived

The area is intended to 'turn back the clock thousands of years' allowing animals to mimic their ancestors

Wales Online

Chicago’s top cop ends training agreement with Texas firm with ties to ex-police superintendent

Professional Law Enforcement Training has been paid more than $1.3 million and is owned by a colleague of former Chicago Police Supt. David Brown.

Chicago Sun-Times

Police Board gives Chicago officer involved in body slam arrest a 90-day suspension

CHICAGO — More than three years after an officer was seen on video slamming a man to the ground, the Chicago Police Board voted to suspend another officer involved in the arrest for 90 days.

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Chicago cop who faced dismissal over role in body-slamming incident suspended for 90 days

Former CPD Supt. David Brown had recommended Officer Mark Johnson be fired from the department for his conduct.

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Former CPD Chief Charlie Beck offers suggestions for Chicago’s next top cop

Charlie Beck, who retired after running LAPD, served five months as CPD boss, implementing some key changes — most of which were rolled back by successor David Brown.

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Chicago’s new interim top cop, ComEd 4 found guilty and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Back-channel search for Chicago’s top cop? Not this time, says president of civilian oversight panel

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s transition team members “have not tried to influence our process. They have not tried to submit names,” said Anthony Driver, president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, which is conducting the search.

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Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson names Fred Waller as interim police superintendent

Waller, who retired from the Chicago Police Department in 2020 after 34 years on the force, will take over when Johnson is sworn in on May 15.

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Coronation-edition Mini Remastered by DBA flies the flag in London’s Linley showroom

A pocket-sized piece of coronation memorabilia, the ultimate Mini Remastered by David Brown Automotive is showcased by Linley

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot ‘done with electoral politics for myself’ after Feb. 28 defeat

Lightfoot is the first elected Chicago mayor in 40 years to be denied a second term. The last mayor to suffer that indignity was Jane Byrne, Chicago’s first and only other female mayor.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPD’s former No. 3 official emerges as front-runner for interim top cop — and maybe an audition for permanent job

Fred Waller spent 34 years with the department, rising through the ranks before joining a parade of top brass who left during the turbulent tenure of former Supt. David Brown.

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Search firm to look nationwide for next top cop, public school ratings dropped and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Search firm hired to find Chicago’s permanent police superintendent

The announcement of the firm’s hiring did not say what the company would be paid to “develop a comprehensive search strategy, identify potential candidates and manage the search process.”

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Judge orders deposition for ex-CPD Supt. David Brown in lawsuit by mentally ill man body-slammed by cop

Brown signed off on a letter finding the officer used excessive force against Bernard Kersh in 2019, but the city never turned over records to Kersh’s lawyers.

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