City Releases Long-Awaited COPA Report on Watts Scandal
After fighting for more than a year to keep it secret, the city of Chicago on Thursday released a report on disgraced former Police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his...
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After fighting for more than a year to keep it secret, the city of Chicago on Thursday released a report on disgraced former Police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his...
Two years after Chicago’s police investigating agency called for three Chicago police officers to be relieved of their police powers, all three remain on the...
Watts and his team worked in the Ida B. Wells housing project, where residents contended for years that the entire unit was dirty and scores of residents had been framed on drug charges. Both the FBI and an undercover team of Chicago Police officers investigated the Watts officers. In the end, only Watts and one other officer, Kallat Mohammed, were criminally charged, and both went to prison. But amid the exploding scandal involving allegations of wrongdoing by other officers on the Watts team, more than 100 convictions have been overturned. Among those cases, Watts and his unit were accuse...
Officer 'feared consequences' of not changing his account of Hillsborough, jury told Jurors heard from two officers who initially refused to sign off amended versions of their accounts of the tragedy Peter Metcalf (left), a solicitor who worked with South Yorkshire police, along with retired former Detective Inspector Alan Foster (centre) and retired former Chief Superintendent Donald Denton Get our daily Echo newsletter for the biggest stories and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe for free When you subscribe we will use the information you prov...
Kim Foxx on election night in 2016, when she won her first term as Cook County state’s attorney. Foxx raised $30,000 in a campaign event at Burke’s house that year, and did not return it in the wake of Burke’s racketeering indictment. Sun-Times file Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Thursday condemned the anti-Semitic remark allegedly made by indicted Ald. Edward Burke (14th) in a wiretapped conversation, but said she’s keeping $30,000 she raised during a 2016 campaign event at Burke’s house. “I don’t ascribe to Alderman’s Burke’s anti-Semitic remarks or any of the...