Joe Mahr

1 week ago | thederrick.com | Jake Sheridan |Joe Mahr

CHICAGO — Chicago’s spending on police misconduct settlements and other police lawsuits is soaring this year, and the steep price for taxpayers could rise hundreds of millions more. Through May alone, the City Council has already approved at least $145.3 million in taxpayer payments to settle lawsuits involving the Chicago Police Department, a record number that dwarfs sums from past years, according to a Tribune analysis.

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Jake Sheridan |Joe Mahr

Chicago’s spending on police misconduct settlements and other police lawsuits is soaring this year, and the steep price for taxpayers could rise hundreds of millions more. Through May alone, the City Council has already approved at least $145.3 million in taxpayer payments to settle lawsuits involving the Chicago Police Department, a record number that dwarfs sums from past years, according to a Tribune analysis.

1 week ago | dailygazette.com | Jake Sheridan |Joe Mahr

CHICAGO — Chicago’s spending on police misconduct settlements and other police lawsuits is soaring this year, and the steep price for taxpayers could rise hundreds of millions more. Through May alone, the City Council has already approved at least $145.3 million in taxpayer payments to settle lawsuits involving the Chicago Police Department, a record number that dwarfs sums from past years, according to a Tribune analysis. kAm%92E 2>@F?E — 72C 23@G6 E96 Sga]e >:==:@? |2J@C qC2?5@? y@9?D@?

1 week ago | dailyitem.com | Jake Sheridan |Joe Mahr

CHICAGO — Chicago’s spending on police misconduct settlements and other police lawsuits is soaring this year, and the steep price for taxpayers could rise hundreds of millions more. Through May alone, the City Council has already approved at least $145.3 million in taxpayer payments to settle lawsuits involving the Chicago Police Department, a record number that dwarfs sums from past years, according to a Tribune analysis. kAm%92E 2>@F?E — 72C 23@G6 E96 Sga]e >:==:@? |2J@C qC2?5@? y@9?D@?

1 month ago | chicagotribune.com | Madeline Buckley |Joe Mahr

Early in the morning outside Cook County Jail, a group of new detainees stepped out of a Chicago police wagon and walked bleary-eyed into the bright sunlight before lining up inside against a brick wall. Brought in from the police districts, the men were among the newest bookings to the jail, where they would wait until a judge ruled on whether they would be admitted or released while their charges were pending.