COPA has released bodycam videos from a May shooting where Chicago police killed a 19-year-old during a foot chase in ...

COPA: No evidence has been presented of police officers' sexual contact with migrants 02:43. CHICAGO (CBS) -- Twelve days after opening a probe into whether police officers had engaged in sexual ...

The current turmoil at COPA marks the latest backslide in the city’s experiment with civilian police oversight, which began in the 1970s with the Chicago Police Department’s troubled Office of ...

A young Chicago cop had racked up more than a dozen misconduct complaints by the time authorities say he inadvertently shot ...

The Chicago police superintendent diverges from COPA’s view of the shooting of Reginald Clay Jr., saying the agency didn’t take into account officers were operating with a heightened se… ...

The department declined to comment on if Superintendent David Brown agreed or disagreed with COPA’s findings because Cannon is no longer a member of the department, a police spokesperson said.

Chicago police officers posted racist comments on social media during a controversy over plans to build this affordable housing development at 5150 N. Northwest Hwy. in Jefferson Park.

COPA’s special victims unit, she said, contacted the Chicago Police Department’s bureau of internal affairs to see whether they were investigating or aware of the allegations.

COPA relies on other agencies, including the Chicago Police Department itself and the Office of Emergency Management and Communications to provide it with video and files.

Lori Lightfoot, the Chicago Police Board president who also oversaw Emanuel’s police reform task force, said it makes sense to allow the Police Department to weigh in before COPA posts its ...

Police district councils and the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability have broad oversight of the police department. by Jim Daley January 15, 2023 April 21, 2025 Share this: ...

The current turmoil at COPA marks the latest backslide in the city’s experiment with civilian police oversight, which began in the 1970s with the Chicago Police Department’s troubled Office of ...