A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

In the less than nine years the Civilian Office of Police Accountability has existed, its investigators have probed 138 ...

The family of a man killed in a Chicago police shooting is now planning to file a lawsuit over his death. The news came the ...

A traffic stop in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago ended in a shooting involving police and a male suspect, resulting in no ...

Four years ago, 20 members of the Chicago City Council signed a letter to then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, “vehemently” opposing her nominee to lead the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Andrea ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Civilian Office of Police Accountability released new video Monday linked to a deadly police shooting in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Miguel Vega died in the shooting late last ...

A fatal shooting two weeks earlier was still on the officers’ radar. Gunfire had left a 32-year-old man dead on West Flournoy Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, and police had no suspects.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability determined police were not justified in stopping the man’s car and should not have searched him or his car after handcuffing him in Chicago’s River North ...

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CHICAGO — New videos capturing a 2022 police shooting, which left a man paralyzed, have been released by Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA). On Thursday COPA announced that it ...

With Andrea Kersten’s announcement that she is stepping down as the leader of Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, it is important to recognize where we are with police accountability ...