|
|||||
|
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago’s police superintendent says his department is making a significant dent in the city’s crime rate.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy credits his policing strategies with a sharp reduction in crime compared with earlier this year. “Since then, it’s definitely turned,” he said. “In fact, the murder rate is down to about 18 or 19 percent off of what it was last year, where earlier in the year, it was up [...] CBS Local Chicago Using the lure of $100 gift cards, the Chicago Police Department is encouraging people to get guns out of their homes and turn them in this Saturday, during the annual gun turn-in program. As WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports, the Police Department is partnering with 20 churches.. First Deputy Supt. Alfonza Wysinger says anyone who turns in a real gun will get a $100 gift card. Replicas and [...] CHICAGO (CBS) — Using the lure of $100 gift cards, the Chicago Police Department is encouraging people to get guns out of their homes and turn them in this Saturday, during the annual gun turn-in program. As WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports, the Police Department is partnering with 20 churches.. LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports
First Deputy Supt. Alfonza Wysinger says anyone who turns in a real gun will get a $100 gift [...] RT The superintendent of the Chicago Police Department says that the reason one of his officers used a Taser stun gun on a woman days away from giving birth because “you can’t always tell whether somebody is pregnant.” At eight-months pregnant, Tiffany Rent says she would think officers would have been aware of her condition before they assaulted and arrested her on Wednesday morning outside a South Side drug store. “I [...] Adam Harrington Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and several other observers have praised officers in the field for their restraint during the NATO Summit protests, but some protest leaders say they cannot see McCarthy’s justification for the use of force. As WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller reports, the protest leaders say Chicago Police used their batons indiscriminately on Sunday at Michigan Avenue and Cermak Road. Police Supt. Garry McCarthy was out in [...] CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago’s police superintendent says the city is re-tooling its anti-gang strategy, following a particularly violent weekend during which several people, including a 6-year-old girl, were killed. Garry McCarthy says the intelligence is there. It’s just a matter of getting the information to beat officers so they can anticipate a retaliatory gang shooting. “We’re going to get our head around this thing and we’re going to turn it around is what it boils down to,” [...] Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy told parents Monday evening that the district is replacing the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary School in the wake of the arrests last week of two teachers on lewd conduct charges. The unprecedented move is intended to build confidence among the many families who have lost faith in their neighborhood elementary school. More than a quarter of students did not show up for classes Monday. Officials [...] (Bill Cameron/WLS Radio) CHICAGO (STMW) – Parents who let their kids under 12 stay out past 8:30 p.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. on weekends will pay a heavy price beginning Sept. 18, under a City Council crackdown launched Thursday at the urging of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Garry McCarthy. “I grew up with a curfew,” Emanuel said earlier this week. “When the lights on [...] CHICAGO (WLS) – Chicago’s new top cop says the accessibility to firearms in America is an extension “of government-sponsored racism” that goes back to the days of slavery and Jim Crow. Speaking to parishoners at St. Sabina Church earlier this month, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy took to the microphone after Father Michael Pfleger spoke about gun control. McCarthy said the topic of race is a [...] CHICAGO (CBS) — While he is pleased with the quick arrest of suspects in a series of mob attacks over the weekend, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday made no secret that he wants everybody involved “brought to justice.” “I want all the young men that were involved in this,” Emanuel said. “Because I want to be very clear up front that as it relates to this [...] CHICAGO (CBS) – Police have been blaming hot weather on Monday for the sudden evacuation of North Avenue Beach. But as CBS 2’s Pamela Jones reports, two days later, a lot of residents and beachgoers still are not buying the city’s version of events. They want to know, why weren’t all the beaches closed on Monday? Mayor Rahm Emanuel is now asking for a report on what went down, but he’s [...] Terry W Ryder, Shutterstock New London students will have to be able to speak English to graduate. Students in New London will not only have to pass English to graduate, but they will have to prove that they know the American English language and be able to demonstrate it as of 2015. The board of education on Thursday approved the major change to city education policy, according to the [...] |
Custom Search
    |
||||
|
Copyright © 2013 InvestmentWatch - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
