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Stephan Shaw, 32, faces counts of official misconduct and custodial misconduct, according to Cook County court records.

CHICAGO — As the fight over the future of police discipline in Chicago carries on, attorneys for the largest Chicago police officers’ union have asked a county judge to extend a moratorium on more than a dozen pending disciplinary cases involving CPD officers. The motion to extend the stay on police board hearings was filed Tuesday by attorneys for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, the ...

Chicago’s City Council on Wednesday again deferred a vote on how to discipline police. Hours later, a judge ruled to delay any police board discipline until...

The blood-alcohol level of Tangie Brown, 40, was .093 when she was tested two hours after the Dec. 7 crash, prosecutors said. Responding officers didn’t offer the test at the scene.

Officers Jeffery Shafer and Victor Guebara were set to appear for a bench trial Wednesday, but prosecutors instead announced they were dismissing all charges because the alleged victim, now in his 20s, was no longer cooperating.

CHICAGO — A veteran Chicago police officer pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony aggravated battery for striking an eighth grade boy earlier this year while making an off-duty visit to a South Side elementary school. Craig Lancaster, 55, was arraigned during a brief hearing before Cook County Judge Adrienne Davis at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. The judge barred the officer from ...

A veteran Chicago police officer pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony aggravated battery for striking an eighth grade boy earlier this year while making an off-duty visit to a South Side elementary school. Craig Lancaster, 55, was arraigned during a brief hearing before Cook County Judge Adrienne Davis at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. The judge barred the officer from contacting the ...

A former Chicago police sergeant on Monday pleaded guilty to a federal charge alleging he kidnapped and sexually abused someone in a squad car on the West Side in 2019.

James B. Sajdak, 65, faces up to a year in federal prison under a misdemeanor civil rights count. Federal prosecutors accused him of forcing a woman into his squad car to perform a sex act on him.

A former Chicago police sergeant who faced up to life in federal prison on charges stemming from the alleged on-duty sexual assault of a transgender woman pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor civil rights violation that could mean he avoids jail time. James Sajdak, 65, entered his plea to a misdemeanor count of violating the victim’s civil rights on March 5, 2019, in a hearing before U.S. ...