Chicago Police Department

Northwestern releases long-awaited NUPD budget review, details $11.2 million in expenses for FY 2020

November 17, 2020

Northwestern released a review of University Police on Monday, detailing its role on campus, budget allocations and a slight decrease in spending over the past two fiscal years. Black undergraduate...

Evanston Fight for Black Lives launches sit-in series to defund EPD

November 16, 2020

Organizers from Evanston Fight for Black Lives held a sit-in in front of Ald. Ann Rainey’s (8th) house on Saturday, demanding that she vote against the city’s proposed 2021 budget and commit to defunding...

Solidarity Street: Students take Millennium Park, the Loop calling for an end to university-police contracts

August 3, 2020

This piece was co-written by staff at the Chicago Maroon and The Daily Northwestern, as the first in a reporting partnership focusing on activism around campus policing. Hundreds of mask-wearing college...

Administrators commit to transparency and cultural change, but not to divesting from Northwestern police

July 24, 2020

Northwestern administrators made commitments to be more transparent about staff diversity and creating a cultural change on campus, but wouldn’t commit to divesting from University Police, in a Friday...

One dead, one injured near the Howard Street CTA station

July 23, 2020

Evanston Police Department responded to a shooting early Thursday morning. At approximately 1:16 a.m., Evanston police responded to a call about a shooting in the 300 block of Howard Street, near the...