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Why Illinois State Police are changing standards for recruiting push

Jan 17, 2020 5:28 AM - Faced with a bevy of retirements in the next two years and already staffed at levels well below were they were a couple of decades ago, the Illinois State Police are making a big recruiting push this month -- and they're lowering some of their requirements to fill their ranks.
Why you may not read details of case of bomb-making materials in Batavia (again)

Jan 10, 2020 5:27 AM - The horse may already be out of the barn, but a Kane County judge this week ordered the Daily Herald and all other media not to republish details of what police found when searching the home and computer of a Batavia teen charged with possessing bomb-making materials.
Police officer deaths are down, but the news is still not good in Illinois

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Jan 3, 2020 5:25 AM - There was good news in a new report on law enforcement officer fatalities, but with more than 100 killed last year as a result of their duties, there was little reason to celebrate the numbers.
Beer, a bow and arrow and more: The suburbs' oddest crimes in 2019

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Dec 27, 2019 11:23 AM - It wouldn't be wrong to say that every arrest, every criminal charge and every conviction involved some poor choices along the way. But 2019 saw the decision making reach a new level of bad in a handful of suburban cases that caught our eyes.
How Cook County 'scent kits' can make the difference in finding missing people

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Dec 20, 2019 5:40 AM - When a person with dementia or autism wanders away, every minute counts if tragedy is to be avoided. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is launching a new program that aims to bring those events to a quick and happy conclusion: "scent kits."
T-shirt business is more than just a job for Kane County jail inmates

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Dec 13, 2019 8:22 AM - What to get that special someone who has everything this holiday season? Some inmates at the Kane County jail have an idea or two.
An I-294 memorial to a fallen state trooper, with a message: Drive responsibly

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Dec 5, 2019 6:36 PM - Family and dozens of law enforcement peers took part in a solemn ceremony Thursday dedicating a stretch of I-294 to Illinois State Police Trooper Christopher Lambert, who was killed there earlier this year while assisting drivers involved in a crash. But more than a memorial, colleagues say, the dedication is also a message to drivers.
Suburban police chiefs have reason to give thanks this year, even after Aurora factory shooting

Nov 28, 2019 2:29 PM - On a bitterly cold day in February, Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman got some of the worst news someone in her job ever gets: Five of her officers had just been shot. So it's no surprise that when we asked Ziman what she is grateful for this Thanksgiving week, her thoughts turned to the mass shooting and how it affected her department, the families of its victims, and the city.
What do school shootings have in common? They could have been prevented, victims' parents say in Rosemont

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Nov 13, 2019 11:05 PM - There's no such thing as a typical school shooter, according to a new report from the U.S. Sercret Service, but all their shootings have one thing in common: they were preventable. Agency researchers and the fathers of three students killed in the 2018 Parkland, Florida massacre were in the suburbs Wednesday discussing ways to prevent future tragedies.
How young is too young to be in lockup? Supreme Court, legislature might decide

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Nov 8, 2019 5:30 AM - How young is too young to throw a juvenile offender in detention? That's a question both state lawmakers and the Illinois Supreme Court are likely to address in the near future, as both sides of the debate prepare to state their case in court and in the Illinois Capitol on whether children under 13 should ever be locked up.

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