The settlement proposed by city attorneys for the family of Dexter Reed is still subject to approval by aldermen. A group of pro-police aldermen have, in recent years, scrutinized city attorneys ...

A week before the Civilian Office of Police Accountability released the videos from the shooting of Dexter Reed, the head of COPA, Andrea Kersten, crafted a letter calling on Chicago's police ...

Six weeks after the Reed shooting, then-Chief COPA Administrator Andrea Kersten questioned the officers' story in the Dexter Reed shooting. The CCPSA called for her termination.

Anthony Driver Jr., president of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, expected to find a "dirty ...

including an investigation into an unfounded rumor about a cop impregnating a migrant teenager and another targeting the officers who got into a deadly gunfight with Dexter Reed. A source close to ...

Andrea Kersten, ex-chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, said a civilian panel had "rendered ...

Andrea Kersten recently resigned as chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, known as COPA. The move happened after the city’s police oversight board issued a letter to ...

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Aldermen had appeared poised for a tense debate over the settlement recommended by city attorneys for the family of Dexter Reed as a way to avoid a potentially more costly payout in court.

The City Council should not approve the proposed $1.25 million settlement to the survivors of Dexter Reed, shot dead last March by Chicago police after he opened fire on them. This is not to say ...

The settlement proposed by city attorneys for the family of Dexter Reed is still subject to approval by aldermen. A group of pro-police aldermen have, in recent years, scrutinized city attorneys ...