With 17 vacancies within the Evanston Police Department, Cmdr. Ryan Glew said the staffing shortage is placing a strain on officers. The department transitioned to a 12-hour work schedule instead of an eight-hour one to fill gaps in the roster, he said. Mikhail Geyer, a detective and the police union president, said many are struggling.
Last year, Evanston Police Department faced an unusually high number of resignations and multiple chief turnovers. For police personnel and city leaders, these changes renewed discussions about EPD’s scope and capabilities. EPD has 27 officer vacancies, according to Cmdr. Ryan Glew, although the city budgeted for 154 officers in 2021, its lowest level since 1993..
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An Evanston resident filed a federal lawsuit last week against two Evanston Police Department officers for allegedly arresting him under false pretenses and tasing him, pinning him to the ground and choking him.
The complaint, filed April 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, charges EPD sergeant Kenneth Carter and officer Mikhail Geyer with using excessive force as well as making an arrest under false pretenses after officers forcibly detained Ronald Louden in the 2100 block of Wesley Avenue in June 2018. The City of Evanston is included as a codefendant.
Body camera footage recorded by officers and released by Fox 32 Chicago shows a half-dozen officers approaching Louden at a parking lot. According to Louden’s complaint, he was grilling a meal for family and friends.
2 Evanston cops accused of false arrest, smashing man s face on curb
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Complaint filed against Evanston officers accused of excessive force
Lawyers for an Evanston man have filed a complaint against two officers and the city of Evanston following a 2018 incident in which the man says he was a victim of police brutality.
Lawyers for a 44-year-old man have filed an amended complaint against two officers and the city of
Evanston for a 2018 incident in which the man says he was a victim of police brutality.
On the morning of June 6, 2018, Ronald Eric Louden Jr., says he was outside grilling a meal for family and friends when two officers aggressively approached him with their hands on their service handguns, the complaint says.