ENGLEWOOD POLICE STATION
If you are arrested for a felony in Englewood today, a Chicago police officer will file charges and take you to jail without the review of a prosecutor with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.
That’s not how arrests in Englewood were made in the past. But that’s the way it’s being carried out today in the 7th Police District. And, if all goes well for the county’s top prosecutor’s plans for reducing violent crime in the predominately Black neighborhood, the practice of Chicago police filing charges without a prosecutor’s review will be implemented in all of the city’s 22 police districts…