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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Allen and Gonring: How police hurt everybody’s mental health

April 11, 2021

In response to Mr. Holland’s April 11 op-ed: The prison-industrial complex, for which police are foot soldiers, is responsible for the current reality of mental health treatment in this country. Deinstitutionalization,...

Allen: Where our carceral approach to sex trafficking leads us

January 4, 2021

Early in 2019, the police charged Robert Kraft, billionaire and owner of the Patriots, with two counts of soliciting sex as the result of a sting operation targeting spas and massage parlors. Orchids of...

Police Blotter: More than $300 worth of alcohol stolen from Jewel-Osco

February 14, 2017

A Skokie man was arrested Monday in connection with stealing more than $300 worth of alcohol from the Jewel-Osco supermarket in southwest Evanston, police said. At 1:10 p.m., a security guard observed...

Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl addresses City Council. Tisdahl said she would only be pleased if the city’s homicide rate was at zero.

Violent crime decreased by 7.2 percent last year, Evanston police report

February 14, 2017

Violent crime has decreased by 7.2 percent in the past year, an Evanston police official reported at a City Council meeting on Monday. This decrease in crime translates to 141 fewer incidents of crime...

Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington talks at a community event. Eddington said Thursday one officer had been reprimanded after the investigation into the arrest of Devon Reid and the other officer had retired.

Officer reprimanded for arresting city clerk candidate

January 20, 2017

One Evanston police officer has been reprimanded and the other has retired after the arrest of Devon Reid, a city clerk candidate who in November was apprehended while petitioning in downtown Evanston,...

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