Chicago city leaders are moving forward to install a new head of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the ...

The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability voted unanimously to select LaKenya White, a 26-year veteran of ...

Following a nationwide search, the city’s Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability decided the agency’s current interim chief administrator LaKenya White was the person for the job.

A joint City Council committee voted 19-3 to explicitly give the Civilian Office of Police Accountability authority to ...

A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

The family of a man killed in a Chicago police shooting is now planning to file a lawsuit over his death. The news came the ...

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Four years ago, 20 members of the Chicago City Council signed a letter to then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, “vehemently” opposing her nominee to lead the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Andrea ...

CHICAGO — New videos capturing a 2022 police shooting, which left a man paralyzed, have been released by Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA). On Thursday COPA announced that it ...

COPA has released video of a deadly Dec. 9 Chicago police-involved shooting in West Ridge. The family of Roberto Calvario, Jr ...

A fatal shooting two weeks earlier was still on the officers’ radar. Gunfire had left a 32-year-old man dead on West Flournoy Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, and police had no suspects.