When Officer Devon Tolver joined the Evanston Police Department last year, he began collaborating with fellow officers to find new ways to make positive
To curb the recent rise in catalytic converter thefts, Evanston Police Department got creative this weekend. With bright orange spray paint and a stencil, EPD officers marked “EPD” on around 300 Evanston residents’ converters at a Northwestern parking garage Sunday. Catalytic converters are motor parts located on vehicles’ undersides that contain lucrative metals people target.
Five years after its inception, Evanston Police Department’s online transparency dashboard will enter its third iteration next month. As resident demands for departmental accountability have adapted and sharpened over the years, the dashboard has remained a point of contention. The updated dashboard, which will now be largely automated, has a target release date of Nov..