‘It Was a Murder’

‘It Was a Murder’

WIB front November 1, 2018

He was clearly exhausted. A supervisor from one of the Chicago Police Department’s specialized gang units had spent two hours detailing an extraordinary career. He had spent more than two decades working in the roughest neighborhoods in Chicago. Undercover drug buys, dangerous foot pursuits, running wires, drug busts. He’d... Read more
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