In all, Chicago taxpayers have spent more than $120.3 million since January 2019 to resolve 31 lawsuits filed by Chicagoans ...

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

Andrea Kersten headed COPA, the agency that investigates Chicago police misconduct. Here's what happened before she quit. The backstage drama days before she resigned included a threatened no ...

Those allegations became public the same day COPA learned of them, and the Chicago Police Department's internal affairs bureau also opened an investigation the same day.

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… ...

A Chicago police lieutenant retired earlier this month before the Civilian Office of Police Accountability released findings that he made several derogatory social media posts in 2020 that were aga… ...

According to the Chicago Police Department, uniformed officers from the 10th District responded to a burglary-in-progress call in the 1800 block of South Central Park Avenue around 10:45 a.m., and ...

Asked about the COPA report and what they are doing to monitor cops on social media and respond to racist posts, police officials cite a policy banning officers from posting disparaging remarks.

Six weeks of classes about police oversight conducted by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability start next week and are open to the public.

Andrea Kersten’s tenure as the boss of the city of Chicago’s police accountability oversight agency was turbulent from the start. Her decision to recommend that slain Officer Ella French be ...