The city of Chicago announced a $90 million global settlement for 176 police misconduct lawsuits connected to disgraced former Chicago Police Department Sergeant Ronald Watts Thursday. City officials ...

A historic settlement moves closer to becoming reality as the City's finance committee tries to cut Chicago's losses on some police misconduct cases. Multi-million dollar lawsuit settlements regarding ...

Chicago aldermen advanced another $17 million police misconduct settlement Monday tied to a decades-old alleged wrongful conviction. The hefty sum that still requires full City Council approval would ...

The Village of Oak Lawn has agreed to pay $825,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who was repeatedly ...

The agreement says the town settled the case "solely for the purpose of avoiding protracted and burdensome litigation." ...

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A Palo Alto Police Department vehicle heads down Forest Avenue outside the department’s headquarters on September 11, 2019. Photo by Veronica Weber. A Palo Alto police officer was found to have ...

The city of Westfield, and 17 current Westfield Police Department officers who are suing it alleging they should have been ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s police settlement borrowing plan revives a practice past mayors discontinued and derided as ...

AND BEING HELD AT THE PERRY COUNTY PRISON. NEW THIS MORNING, THE FAMILY OF A TEENAGER KILLED IN A CRASH INVOLVING A HARRISBURG POLICE OFFICER TWO YEARS AGO WAS AWARDED A $500,000 SETTLEMENT. 18 ...