Jerusalem – Chief Commissioner of the Israel Police Roni Alsheikh sent a rare and strongly-worded letter on Sunday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning of the danger of provocative visits to the Temple Mount by politicians in advance of Passover.
Israel’s number one detective, Assistant Commissioner Ephraim Bracha, who was suspect in multiple bribery scandals, shot himself in his car near his home in Modiin early Sunday morning.
The New York Health Department is investigating an outbreak of chicken pox in a hassidic Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn.
A 28-year-old graduate student who federal authorities said had recently visited an online “fantasy abduction site” has been charged with kidnapping a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois who disappeared three weeks ago and is now presumed dead.
Chicago, IL – Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert wheeled himself into a federal prison in Minnesota on Wednesday to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that he sexually abused at least four boys while a high school wrestling coach in Illinois.
A hate crime investigation is underway after the front window of the Chicago Loop Synagogue was smashed by a vandal who affixed swastikas to its front entrance early Saturday.
The city of Chicago recorded 762 homicides in 2016 an average of two murders per day, the most killings in the city for two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined.
Seven Chicago police officers should be fired for filing false reports in the fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014, the police superintendent said Thursday, in a move aimed at repairing the reputation of a department dogged by decades of cover-ups and scandal.
Chicago, IL – Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson placed an officer on desk duty Tuesday after a video emerged that appears to show the officer kicking a suspect in the head during an arrest.
Chicago’s top cop is out. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the news during a Tuesday afternoon news conference about Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, whom Emanuel hired shortly before his 2011 inauguration.
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