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Report: Chicago Police overtime spending result of ‘wide scale waste and…abuse’

by Brian Seay

The Chicago Police Department has spent nearly $100 million a year on officer overtime in the last few years, according to an internal investigation.

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Police chief on trial after librarian killed in training demo

by Brian Seay

Five officers testified Tuesday that nobody checked whether a gun had blanks before a community demonstration that ended with a librarian dead.

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Fool responsibility

by Greg Camp

When politicians take "full responsibility", too often their usage of “responsibility” is in fact a wholesale rejection of what the word means.

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5-year-old accidentally shoots self in head while babysitter napped, left gun on coffee table (VIDEO)

by Jennifer Cruz

It wasn’t until sometime later, after she had awakened, that she discovered the child's body. Initially she couldn’t find him but eventually found him in the living room with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

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