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Criticism for Chicago Police & Mayor Emanuel for “Arresting Everybody”

December 18, 2012

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is taking heat for comments directed at Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy. Not one to mince words, Preckwinkle said last week that the two were “too focused on arrests as a solution to rising violence and not enough on improving a ‘miserable’ public school system and beefing up youth programs,” according to the Chicago Tribune. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Chicago, crime, police

Cook County Electronic Monitoring on the Rise

October 11, 2011

In an effort to reduce jail populations and help offenders remain within the community, Cook County officials are expanding the use of electronic monitoring devices. While 2010 saw only 100 defendants in the county with the monitors, this year so far, there have been 865, a serious increase. [Read more…]

Filed Under: criminal law Tagged With: Chicago, Cook County, crime, monitoring

Chicago Releases Unprecedented Crime Database to Public

September 21, 2011

This week the city of Chicago released an online database that allows anyone to search for any criminal offense that occurred over the last 10 years. No other database like this exists in the country, as Chicago attempts to crawl out from under their reputation as being secretive and corrupt at even the highest levels of city government. [Read more…]

Filed Under: criminal law Tagged With: Chicago, crime, sentencing

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