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UpdatedThu, Feb 18, 2021 at 7:58 pm CT Replies(40) Joliet Police Detective Aaron Bandy was justified to kill Joliet resident Bruce Carter back on Feb. 6, 2019 at the home of Carter's mother, 213 Des Plaines St., Will County State's Attorney Jim Glasgow concluded. (Image via FBI) JOLIET, IL —Two years after Joliet Police Detective Aaron Bandy fatally shot 38-year-old Joliet bank robber Bruce Carter inside Carter's mother house, Grace Vann has filed a federal lawsuit against the police department and Bandy for the death of her son. Vann filed her lawsuit without retaining a licensed Illinois...

UpdatedTue, Feb 16, 2021 at 9:23 pm CT Replies(58) Al Roechner's two-year run as the permanent chief of police in Joliet came to an end in January. He accepted a $19,847 raise in exchange for submitting his retirement notice the next day. (Image via John Ferak/Patch ) JOLIET, IL — The city of Joliet gave Joliet Police Chief Al Roechner a salary increase of nearly $20,000 during his final days on the job in January as an incentive to retire, Joliet Patch confirmed through a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to Joliet's City Hall. The substantial raise to bring Roechner's pay to ...

UpdatedTue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:33 pm CT Replies(14) In December, Joliet police officer Tyler Bayles fatally shot a 19-year-old Naperville man on Second Avenue. There is no body camera footage of the deadly encounter. (Image via John Ferak/Joliet Patch Editor ) JOLIET, IL — The Chicago Police Department uses about 8,000 officer worn body cameras. Elgin utilizes 157 body cameras for officers and supervisors. Moline's Police Department has 84 body cameras. Then, there's the Joliet Police Department. One of the largest police departments in Illinois, the city of Joliet employs about 270 sworn ...

UpdatedTue, Feb 2, 2021 at 11:08 pm CT Replies(20) Pastor Warren Dorris previously served 24 years on the Joliet City Council. Now, he's making a political comeback. (Image via John Ferak/Patch Editor ) JOLIET, IL — The Dock at Inwood was busy Tuesday night and most of the crowd was coming for Warren Dorris' political fund-raiser. Dorris served on the Joliet City Council from 1987 until 2011 when he lost his bid for mayor. Now, a decade later, Dorris is back, and he's energized about the April 6 elections. "The support we're getting is pretty phenomenal, from Kendall County all the way ...

UpdatedWed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:46 am CT Replies(37) Joliet deputy chief of criminal investigations Marc Reid is being demoted back to lieutenant. Reid previously ran the police department's internal affairs unit. (Image via city of Joliet ) JOLIET, IL — On his first day at City Hall, new City Manager Jim Capparelli named Lt. Dawn Malec as Joliet's new police chief, replacing Al Roechner, who lasted two years on the job. On Tuesday, Malec issued an order announcing that three of Roechner's deputy chiefs were being demoted to other ranks, according to a memo obtained by Joliet Patch. The doc...