Sophie Sherry
Breaking News Reporter at Chicago Sun-Times
Breaking news reporter @suntimes. Formerly: @chicagotribune & @michigandaily.
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1 week ago |
nbcchicago.com | Tom Schuba |Sophie Sherry
Mayor Brandon Johnson is now being forced to reconsider his decision to shut down the controversial ShotSpotter system — a move that set off a search for police technologies that some business leaders have slammed as slipshod and frantic. SoundThinking, ShotSpotter’s parent company, is among eight firms that submitted proposals to provide citywide “gun violence detection technology,” according to records from the bidding process, which ended Friday.
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1 week ago |
wbez.org | Tom Schuba |Sophie Sherry
Mayor Brandon Johnson is now being forced to reconsider his decision to shut down the controversial ShotSpotter system — a move that set off a search for police technologies that some business leaders have slammed as slipshod and frantic. SoundThinking, ShotSpotter’s parent company, is among eight firms that submitted proposals to provide citywide “gun violence detection technology,” according to records from the bidding process, which ended Friday.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Tom Schuba |Sophie Sherry
Mayor Brandon Johnson is now being forced to reconsider his decision to shut down the controversial ShotSpotter system — a move that set off a search for police technologies that some business leaders have slammed as slipshod and frantic. SoundThinking, ShotSpotter’s parent company, is among eight firms that submitted proposals to provide citywide “gun violence detection technology,” according to records from the bidding process, which ended Friday.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Sophie Sherry
Family members and West Loop residents are mourning the death of John Flemister, a beloved area doorman, who was fatally shot in the neighborhood over the weekend. “He loved his job to death, the residents loved him to death,” his niece Sabrina Holton told the Sun-Times on Monday.
Chicago Police Department making "significant strides" toward court-ordered reforms, monitor reports
1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Sophie Sherry
The Chicago Police Department appears to be “gaining momentum” toward complying with court-ordered reforms after years of only incremental progress, according to the latest report from the independent monitor. The team charged with overseeing the federal consent decree — set in place in 2019 — found the department made “significant strides” toward meaningful reforms in the last six months of 2024, with “critical opportunities for improvement” now within reach.
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