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News & Politics, Feature Feb 17, 2021
Have you seen these 51 women?

If there wasn’t a serial killer who picked off dozens of victims without detection for decades, then the city was broken in a way that gave off the illusion of one.
- By Ben Austen
- Tags: Feature, serial killer, Murder Accountability Project, murder, chicago police department, south side, west side

News & Politics, Feature Nov 25, 2020
Four actual proposals for cutting Chicago’s police budget right now

We likely won’t see the 75 percent cut that organizers have asked for, but there are some proposals on the table.
- By Grace Del Vecchio and City Bureau
- Tags: Feature, budget, lightfoot, chicago police department, defund the police, police abolition, Chicago city budget

News & Politics, News Oct 16, 2020
Queer folks of color want to cancel today’s Buttigieg-Lightfoot book event

Activists say the pair's public conversation about “trust and distrust” shows the problems with assuming marginalized people have progressive values.
- By Adam M. Rhodes
- Tags: News, Lori Lightfoot, Pete Buttigieg, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Police Department, Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Office of Professional Standards, LaSaia Wade, Brave Space Alliance, Dimitri Nesbitt Pérez

News & Politics, News Oct 2, 2020
Video
‘We just want to go home’

CPD’s violent response to a student-led protest downtown and what it says about this moment in our history
- By Raven Geary
- Tags: News, CPD, Chicago Police Department, protest, COVID-19, pepper spray, tear gas, police brutality, police, cops, coronavirus, Video

News & Politics, Feature Sep 17, 2020
Video
That lockout you witnessed? It didn’t happen.

Ex-cops attempted to throw out a Rogers Park tenant at gunpoint. The police report tells a different story.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Eviction, police misconduct, lockout, lockouts, COVID-19, COVID, pandemic, housing, Chicago Police Department, CPD, Greenspire Realty, Greenspire, John Dragic, Steve Cain, Luis Lopez, Ronald Rufo, Lucas Cunningham, Officer Lucas Cunningham, Joshua Surgal, Officer Joshua Surgal, Rogers Park, 24th District, CPD 24th District, 24th District Commander Joseph Brennan, Joseph Brennan, 49th Ward, Maria Hadden, Alderwoman Maria Hadden, Farwell Avenue, broken windows policing, Chicago Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance, Robert Kahn, eviction court, witnesses, Cook County Sheriff, Sanford Kahn, Housing Issue, Video

News & Politics, Feature Aug 24, 2020
A rosy CPS survey on cops in schools falls short

Despite bad data and board discord, CPS renews contract with CPD.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, CPS board, cops in schools, police violence, School Resource Officers, SROs, Local School Councils, LSCs, student opinions, Chicago Police Department, CPD, Jadine Chou, James Gherardi, Lake View High School, Lane Tech, demographics, survey methodology, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, FOIA lawsuit, student safety, school safety, #CopsOutCPS, school-to-prison pipeline, Education Issue

News & Politics, Feature Aug 12, 2020
‘This is not a war zone’

What happened in Englewood in the three crucial hours after the police shooting of Latrell Allen
- By Grace Del Vecchio
- Tags: Feature, Protest, englewood, shooting, looting, chicago police department

Columns & Opinion, Opinion Jun 29, 2020
Chicago, racism is hurting us all

Together, we can fight racism, rebuild our neighborhoods, and fight for the future of our city.
- By José Rico and Pilar Audair-Reed
- Tags: Opinion, Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Greater Chicago, Black Lives Matter, Chicago Police Department, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, COVID-19, coronavirus, Invest South-West Program

News & Politics, Feature Jun 10, 2020
From soldier to worker

Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Police unions, police unionization, Chicago police union, Chicago Police Department, CPD, Fraternal Order of Police, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, unions, labor history, labor movement, labor unions, Haymarket Affair, AFL-CIO, Chicago Federation of Labor, Chicago Teachers Union, SEIU Local 1, Dennis Gannon, Mark Donahue, strikes, labor strikes, Memorial Day Massacre, Chicago Patrolmen's Association, Afro-American Patrolmen's League, Renault Robinson, Summerdale Scandal, Richard J. Daley, Democratic National Convention, civil rights movement. Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, Megan Marie Adams, Jane Byrne, Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke, Orlando W. Wilson, Eddie Johnson, Kevin Graham, John Catanzara, collective bargaining, collective bargaining agreements, union contracts, arbitration, indemnification, Benjamin Sachs, Ana Avendaño, Bob Reiter, Jerry Morrison, National Nurses United, Carlos Ginard, Workers United, Stacy Davis Gates, Teamsters, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, George Floyd, police violence, white supremacy, public sector unions

News & Politics, Feature Jun 5, 2020
The front lines of police brutality

Photos from a protest where cops shot pepper spray into a kettled crowd.
- By Brooke Hummer
- Tags: Feature, Police, cops, brutality, protest, abolition, george floyd, black lives matter, tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, CPD, Chicago police department, coronavirus

News & Politics, News Jun 1, 2020
Police abolitionists find fuel in the protests

As more people lose faith in the state, organizers offer alternatives.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Chicago Police Department, CPD, police violence, protests, George Floyd protests, police abolition, abolition, prison and police abolition, abolitionist organizing, Chicago police abolitionists, mutual aid, George Floyd, Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Mariame Kaba, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Ariel Atkins, Good Kids Mad City, Kofi Ademola, Equity and Transformation, Richard Wallace, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Lori Lightfoot, police riot, Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Chicago Public Schools, Assata’s Daughters, Page May

News & Politics, News May 29, 2020
The Reader guide to police abolition

Our reporting on envisioning and organizing a city less reliant on cops to keep us safe
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Chicago Police Department, CPD, police abolition, abolition, prison and police abolition, abolitionist organizing, Chicago police abolitionists, mutual aid, Laquan McDonald, George Floyd, Minneapolis

News & Politics, Media May 12, 2020
One murder, four years, no answers

A mother takes to podcasting wondering if CPD did “a cover-up or are they just this damn incompetent?”
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Media, Somebody podcast, Courtney Copeland, Shapearl Wells, Alison Flowers, Bill Healy, Chicago Police Department, Invisible Institute, murder, murder clearance rate, CPD, shooting, Belmont Cragin, Laquan McDonald, police accountability

Columns & Opinion, Opinion Mar 10, 2020
Torture survivors’ silence will not protect the Chicago Police Department

An effort by the Fraternal Order of Police to prosecute survivors for telling their stories is an all-to-common abuse tactic.
- By Cindy Eigler and Aislinn Pulley
- Tags: Opinion, Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, police torture, Jon Burge, Chicago Police Department, Chicago police torture, reparations, police torture reparations, FOP, Kim Foxx

News & Politics, Feature Feb 20, 2020
Heroes, terrorists, and the police

The lack of congressional oversight on ITTA—a small police training company founded in Chicago that has trained more than 600 officers in El Salvador—is even more problematic given the behavior of some of the U.S. officers running the program.
- By Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Alison Flowers, Ellen Glover, Danielle Mackey, and Annie Nguyen
- Tags: Feature, Police, Chicago Police Department, El Salvador, ITTA, Grupo Reaccion Policial, International Tactical Training Association, counterterrorism, PNC, Salvadoran Civilian National Police, Fraternal Order of Police, National Academy for Public Security, death squads, cops

News & Politics, News Dec 12, 2019
Getting ‘Eddie Johnson drunk’ at Ceres Cafe

Chicagoans seek psychic relief by making a mockery of the fired police superintendent.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Eddie Johnson, superintendent Eddie Johnson, Eddie Johnson firing, Chicago Police Department, CPD, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Lori Lightfoot, police misconduct, Eddiegate, police violence, code of silence, Ceres Cafe, Chicago Board of Trade

News & Politics, Feature Sep 12, 2019
‘We Are Witnesses: Chicago’

In 15 direct-to-camera testimonies, this Marshall Project video series gives voice to Chicagoans affected by the justice system.
- By The Marshall Project
- Tags: Feature, criminal justice, the marshall project, chicago police department, justice, police, cops, prison, victims, we are witnesses

News & Politics, Feature Sep 12, 2019
Video
‘I’m the bad guy now’: A retired cop on outing police misconduct

Bill Dorsch loved being a Chicago cop, then he witnessed misconduct by disgraced detective Reynaldo Guevara.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, criminal justice, the marshall project, chicago police department, justice, police, cops, prison, victims, Bill Dorsch, police misconduct, Reynaldo Guevara, wrongful convictions, Chicago Police Department, CPD, We Are Witness, clearance rates, Eddie Johnson, Video

News & Politics, Feature Sep 12, 2019
Video
Rewriting the narrative
- By Sarah Watts and Lucius Wisniewski
- Tags: Feature, criminal justice, the marshall project, chicago police department, justice, police, cops, prison, victims, we are witnesses, Video

Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Apr 4, 2019
Breakin’ the law

What should Chicago do about cyclists who don’t play by the rules?
- By John Greenfield
- Tags: Transportation, Biking, safety, Toni Preckwinkle, National Motorists Association, Shelia Dunn, Chicago Police Department, Howard Ludwig, Chicago Department of Transportation, Mike Claffey, DePaul University, Joe Schwieterman, Active Transportation Alliance, Jim Merrell

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Mar 13, 2019
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials is pushing ahead to create a site of remembrance for Burge victims

Monthlong exhibition will feature designs for a future memorial organizers are committed to building despite a lack of city funding.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Art Feature, Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, police torture, Jon Burge, Chicago Police Department, Chicago police torture, reparations, police torture reparations

News & Politics, News Mar 1, 2019
SCOTUS civil asset forfeiture decision won’t end profit-driven policing

Illinois law still incentivizes cops to take people’s stuff
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Supreme Court, civil asset forfeiture, SCOTUS, policing for profit, Timbs v. Indiana, Tyson Timbs, Chicago Police Department, CPD, ACLU, ACLU of Illinois, Ben Ruddell, Eighth Amendment, excessive fines

Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Jan 28, 2019
Is CPD using racial profiling to catch Divvy thieves?

Advocates say yes—and that they have the stats to prove it.
- By John Greenfield
- Tags: Transportation, Divvy, Chicago Police Department, racial profiling, bike ticketing, cycling, Loop, South Loop, River North, equity, Samuel Baltes, CWB Chicago, Eboni Senai Hawkins, Hakeem Appling, Catrina Hampton, Eric Griggs, Howard Ludwig, CDOT, Mike Claffey, Karen Sheley, ACLU Illinois

News & Politics, Politics Jan 10, 2019
The 20th Ward aldermanic race is rife with bad faith and good ideas

A Pritzker-backed machine operator, a rogue three-time candidate, a U of C darling, and lots of idealistic novices compete in a ward known for corruption.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Politics, 20th Ward, aldermanic election, 20th Ward Alderman, Willie Cochran, Kevin Bailey, Democratic committeeman, 20th Ward Democrats, 20th Ward Democratic Committee, Maria Bailey, Jennifer Maddox, Michael Dorf, election law, election lawyer, Board of Elections, Board of Election Commissioners, City Council, Rahm Emanuel, J.B. Pritzker, Anthony Driver, Nicole Johnson, Andre Smith, Dernard Newell, Maya Hodari, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Police Department, Andrew Finko, corruption, ward politics, mental health, Obama Presidential Center, University of Chicago, Hassan Muhammad, Dorothy Brown, Danny Davis, Woodlawn, Back of the Yards, Englewood, Washington Park, Parkway Gardens

News & Politics, Politics Dec 13, 2018
Overlooked mayoral hopefuls share bold visions for Chicago

They may have little name recognition and no campaign funds, but the regular people running for mayor are committed to making the city thrive.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Politics, Mayoral elections, elections, politics, Democratic machine, machine politics, Catherine Brown D’Tycoon, Conrien Hykes Clark, Roger L. Washington, Richard Mayers, Sandra L. Mallory, John Kozlar, Action Now, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, CPAC, Ja’mal Green, La Shawn Ford, Willie Wilson, Toni Preckwinkle, Garry McCarthy, Amara Enyia, police brutality, police violence, police accountability, Chicago Police Department, CPD, homelessness, affordable housing, predatory lending, contract sales, contract-for-deed sales, Garrett Morgan Elementary School, Auburn Gresham, West Englewood, North Lawndale, Roseland, Bridgeport, Rahm Emanuel, Michelle Morsi Murphy, school closures, Haines Elementary School, Chinatown, transportation, bankruptcy, city tickets

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