Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four years ago, 20 members of the Chicago City Council signed a letter to then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, “vehemently” opposing her ...

COPA has released bodycam video from a January police shooting on Chicago's South Side involving a man accused of shooting a ...

Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Wednesday released the full report of its investigation into the fatal police shooting of Anthony Alvarez in March 2021, more than a month after ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC 7 I-Team has learned that the Civilian Office of Police Accountability has questioned the "validity of the traffic stop" that led to the fatal encounter between five Chicago ...

CHICAGO — The Civilian Office of Police Accountability released video Tuesday showing an exchange of gunfire between Chicago police officers and a 26-year-old man last month that ended with officers ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- After a Chicago Police officer fires their weapon, you often hear us mention COPA – or the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. The goal of COPA is accountability for officers – ...

CHICAGO — Investigators with Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) are looking into a shooting involving a police officer that unfolded on the city’s South Side on Saturday ...

With little business to act on, the Chicago Police Board gathered Thursday night for its monthly meeting at CPD headquarters, its first since the head of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability ...