On November 29, 2024, Oak Park lost Detective Allan Reddins. He was 40 years old. The loss is difficult to measure because a badge number can be recorded, a rank can be listed, and an End of Watch can be entered into a memorial—but none of those facts can contain the life that ended when gunfire took him from the community he served. Reddins had given five years to the Oak Park Police Department in Illinois. He was responding to reports of an armed man leaving a bank when he was shot. The circumstances are stark, but the human truth is even starker: a detective…

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