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The future of police discipline in Chicago is scheduled for a City Council vote for the third time Wednesday after a committee voted to reject a Fraternal Order of Police contract measure that would allow officers accused of serious misconduct to have their disciplinary cases heard behind closed doors. The committee’s 10-5 vote tees up another chapter in the back and forth between City Hall ...

Confronted for the second time in as many months with the future of police discipline, aldermen deferred voting Wednesday on a contract measure to allow officers accused of serious misconduct to have their disciplinary cases heard behind closed doors. They separately voted to approve $8 million in settlements, including a wrongful death and police misconduct case. The unexpected move not to ...

“He’s a coward,” Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara afterward. “You had your attorney tell the judge you’re calling the vote. Call the vote. But he didn’t do it.”

CHICAGO — Confronted for the second time in as many months with the future of police discipline, aldermen deferred voting Wednesday on a contract measure to allow officers accused of serious misconduct to have their disciplinary cases heard behind closed doors. They separately voted to approve $8 million in settlements, including a wrongful death and police misconduct case. The unexpected move ...

The Council rejected the ruling, which allows Chicago police officers accused of the most serious misconduct to have their cases decided in closed-door arbitration. The arbitrator reaffirmed his original decision, returning it to the Council for a second vote, which could come Wednesday.

After a year of sweeping changes and more controversy, the department enters 2024 with a new permanent boss facing a long to-do list.

Attorneys for Chicago’s police superintendent have taken legal action to ask a Cook County judge to reverse a recent Chicago Police Board ruling that cleared a controversial police officer of wrongdoing — the first time in the consent-decree era that the city and its police boss have made such a request. County court records show the complaint for administrative review was submitted on behalf ...

Arbitrator Edwin Benn said state law guarantees Chicago police officers accused of the most serious wrongdoing the right to bypass the Police Board in favor of arbitration. Benn also criticized Mayor Brandon Johnson and the 33 City Council members who rejected his earlier ruling.

The leadership baton was passed Thursday night at the Chicago Police Board’s monthly meeting as a protracted fight over discipline for Chicago police officers has called the board’s future into question. And as that new era began, the board announced a forthcoming evidentiary hearing that stems from a notorious, nearly 20-year-old misconduct case — that of disgraced Sgt. Ronald Watts. Outgoing ...

The leadership baton was passed Thursday night at the Chicago Police Board’s monthly meeting as a protracted fight over discipline for Chicago Police officers has called the board’s future into question. And as that new era began, the board announced a forthcoming evidentiary hearing that stems from a notorious, nearly 20-year-old misconduct case — that of disgraced CPD Sgt. Ronald Watts. ...