We’ve combed through the full text of the DOJ’s civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department to highlight key excerpts and new data, and to provide context to the findings.

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Two Chicago police officers uncovered a massive criminal enterprise within the department. Then they were hung out to dry.

Fifty-two million dollars – it’s a staggering amount of money, and also the average paid each and every year in the last decade to settle lawsuits against the Chicago Police Department.

The Second City is still grappling with a long history of police brutality.

The payouts, for everything from petty harassment to police torture, have brought more financial misery to a city already drowning in billions of dollars of pension debt.

Many of the Chicago police leading anti-bias trainings are trailed by a history of alleged abuses against black people.

Hundreds hit the streets of Chicago to protest the deadly shooting of 16-year-old Pierre Loury by a police officer.

The activist group We Charge Genocide described alleged human rights violations to the UN's anti-torture watchdog.

Because Chicago’s police complaints can list multiple officers at once, it’s possible to build a giant social network of police interactions.

Here are key moments in the police department's history that contributed to a reputation for brutality toward minorities.

These Black-led organizing groups are supporting their communities through the coronavirus crisis while leading a nationwide movement against police brutality.

For activists and city leaders calling on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to cut the police budget, it’s clear that the money could be better spent elsewhere.

Over the last 15 years, fees and costs for private attorneys in civil rights cases totaled $213 million, the Tribune found by analyzing city data obtained through an open records request.

They are demanding that the funds be spent on resources like schools, clinics, and housing.

Since the first Chicago police union contract in the 1980s, the union and City Hall have bartered protections from discipline in exchange for money.

The city paid more for police misconduct settlements last year than any year since at least 2011, bringing the total tab to well over half a billion dollars in just eight years.

Why is everyone else copying it?

”The gross miscarriages of justice taking place from Chicago to Cuba beg the question: what can we do to uproot the torture tree?”

Latisha Jones testified Tuesday at a hearing for Officer Robert Rialmo, who shot and killed Bettie Jones and Quintonio LeGrier in 2015.

Dorothy Holmes and her attorney held a news conference Tuesday calling for the release of the video. 

The tragic murder of another Black person by a police officer and the reactions of the community to the death show us once again that racism is alive and...

Multiple videos on social media show the scenes before and after a CPD squad car rolled over a 16-year-old Black girl in Roseland during uprisings on May 31st.

A federal jury Tuesday awarded $25 million to a suburban man who sued the City of Chicago after spending 16 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.

A City Council committee agreed to pay a total of $20 million to families of two men who were killed by drunken off-duty cop Joseph Frugoli.

Chicago police Sgt. John Poulos was found liable in a civil case in the shooting death on an Englewood teen in 2016. The family of Kajaun Raye was awarded $1 million in damages.

The Chicago Police Board has ruled that two officers will be fired for the 2016 shooting that killed a teen named Paul O’Neal.

A video investigation of the police killing of Harith Augustus by Forensic Architecture and the Invisible Institute challenges the official narrative.

Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s career in the Chicago Police Department raises troubling questions about the future of police reform in the city.

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4, 1969, Chicago police raided Hampton’s apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. Watch our 2009...

Officer’s fatal shooting of Pierre Loury prompts demonstrations amid scrutiny of police department and Homan Square facility

Chicago police misconduct records that are five years old and older will remain available to the public, according to a ruling from the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot deployed hyperaggressive police to violently clamp down anti-racist protesters of police violence even as she praised them.

Fault Lines explores the lesser-known stories of black women who have fallen victim to police violence in the US.

Ariel Roman was shot twice in February after officers tried to stop him for violating a city ordinance by walking between subway cars. The additional footage was released months later part of the...

Grassroots groups around Chicago are already putting abolitionist ideas into practice.

Because reform won’t happen.

Exclusive: Long-time detective Richard Zuley’s tactics exported from Chicago to Guantánamo Bay as minority Americans allege abuse and coercion