The Rule of Law and Empowerment Initiative, also known as Partners West Africa Nigeria (PWAN), with support from the Foreign, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- After the latest report showed the Chicago Police Department missed a majority of deadlines mandated under the consent decree, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is being called on to step up her ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As people in Chicago demand changes in how officers are held accountable, a second public meeting on forming a new board to oversee the Chicago Police Department was met with more ...

Urban Council members urge police commissioners to remove Officer Blayne Newton after multiple fatal shootings and demand ...

The government has announced what it calls the biggest shake-up in the history of the police service on Monday.

It seems like we’re in this backlash period against police reform. The people who want to unleash police, and even the military, on society are on the march. We have this oscillation where we have ...

COLLINS AT CITY HALL. THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE CHAIR DIDN’T PULL ANY PUNCHES TO TELLING WHY HE BELIEVES THE POLICE OVERSIGHT NETWORK IS IN A CRISIS OF PURPOSE, AND HE PROVIDED EXAMPLES OF HOW IT’S ...

Following a nationwide search, the city’s Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability decided the agency’s ...

Civilian oversight of law enforcement is dying. Not in statute, not in mission — but in impact, in execution, in public faith. What began as a bold democratic intervention into the secretive world of ...

Late last month, when Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced an unusual deal to drop murder and deadly conduct charges against an Austin police officer for the fatal shooting of a man in ...

Their decision leaves just four members on the nine-member advisory body, which has been plagued by vacancies for much of its ...