Areanah Preston, a 24-year-old Chicago police officer who family called “happy” and “intelligent,' was shot dead early Saturday shortly after leaving the station following her shift on the city’s South Side, Chicago police said.
A Chicago police officer salutes as a fallen police officer, who was shot early Saturday morning in the Avalon Park neighborhood, arrives at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office on May 6, 2023.
Tense exchanges between an officer and 911 dispatchers erupted shortly after shooting.”495: emergency, emergency!” the officer says. “81st and Blackstone we got a person shot -- it’s an off duty po! Get an ambulance here now!”After a 10-1, an emergency call to all officers in the area to immediately help out, was given over the radio, the officer was apparently with the fallen officer.”Squad, it’s not looking good - get an ambulance here now!” the officer says.
During her undergraduate studies, Preston’s academic interests ranged from restorative justice and trauma in incarcerated populations to diversity in law enforcement and police brutality. . “I was able to learn firsthand the problems that many of our incarcerated population goes through outside of the standard textbook curriculum,” Preston was quoted as saying in the paper.
After a two-week class trip to Holocaust sites in Germany and Poland that same year, where Preston and her peers studied genocide through a criminology lens,– something she’d already been thinking about – with the goal of building trust between underrepresented communities and law enforcement.
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