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- Blogs, Bleader Nov 26, 2018
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Archive dive: how grassroots groups around Chicago put police abolitionist ideas into practice
Jessica Disu didn’t always consider herself a police abolitionist, but an appearance on Fox News in 2016 made her the face of the movement. In a Reader article that same year she said, “our police is not working—we need to replace it with something new.”
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2018
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The Jason Van Dyke case showed the danger of being ruled by fear
The murder of LaQuan McDonald isn’t a just a story about one man’s exaggerated fear. It shines a light on the fear that drives much of Chicago's and America's politics and criminal justice.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2018
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Family of another teen slain by Chicago police reflects on Van Dyke verdict
Vindication for Laquan McDonald doesn’t mean justice for majority of police shooting victims.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2018
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Psychologist and defense witness at Van Dyke trial says police officers suffer from memory distortions under acute stress
Laurence Miller will testify that Jason Van Dyke feared for his life when he shot Laquan McDonald, and that this mortal terror helps explain the discrepancies between his and other police reports and the videotape of the shooting.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2018
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A jury expert weighs in on what to expect in the Jason Van Dyke trial
"People try to get out of jury duty, but what we find is that once they are actually on a jury they take it seriously and they want to get it right."
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2018
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Rapper Vic Mensa: Chicago’s newest Black Panther?
At this past weekend's "anti-bait-truck" shoe giveaway, the 25-year-old rapper declared himself a revolutionary.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2018
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Why the nationwide strike against ‘modern-day slavery’ may not reach Illinois. And why it's already here.
IDOC's job opportunities are so few and repression of organizing so intense that few inmates may be joining the nationwide labor strike. That doesn't mean they're not resisting.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 16, 2018
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Invisible Institute launches expanded police misconduct database
Police union spokesman says "motives" behind database are "perfectly transparent."
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2018
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Workshop explores alternatives to calling cops during mental health crises
Police abolitionists continue to articulate their vision for a "a world without police."
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2018
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How inmates at Cook County Jail curated the WorldScene Film Festival
"I like to step out of the way and let the films do the work," says Nicole Dreiske, executive director of the International Children's Media Center who led the program.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 30, 2018
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Trans woman Strawberry Hampton reports continued assaults while detained at men’s prisons
Despite filing multiple complaints against guards and inmates, Strawberry Hampton is being denied a transfer to a women's prison.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2018
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Should Chicago cops have to pay for their own misconduct insurance?
Misconduct settlements have cost the city $800 million since 2004, a new report found. Should taxpayers be on the hook?
- Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2018
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That time a Cook County judge ruled on the case of a man he himself put in prison when he was still a prosecutor
In 2006 John Conroy reported an incredible story about how the Jon Burge torture scandal continues to reverberate in the judiciary
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 13, 2018
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Spectator who exclaimed ‘What?’ in court jailed—without bail—during Jason Van Dyke hearing, activists say
The man was one of two who received stiff penalties for contempt from Judge Vincent Gaughan recently.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2018
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Second City Cop blog celebrates slain CPD commander
"We can't think of a single significant instance where he was the target of someone's ire," the Chicago police hive-mind blog reflects.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 25, 2018
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Chicago Data Collaborative launches criminal justice data portal
The cooperative connects the dots between data sets about the same person or case buried among various city and county agencies.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 24, 2018
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RIP Judge William Cousins, aka ‘The Prince of Darkness’
For 16 years, he kept the longest hours of any judge at 26th and California
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2018
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Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, and the question of when we get to say the hell with the rules
Should reporters break their word? Should lawyers? Anybody?
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2017
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Kim Foxx gets a report card
Independent justice system observers rate the Cook County state's attorney a year into her term.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2017
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Masturbation epidemic in Cook County court lockups raises questions about jail conditions, county budget, defendants' rights
Public defenders, especially women, are being sexually harassed while visiting defendants in lockup.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2017
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Are there alternatives to calling 911?
A workshop prompted attendees to examine the cop within themselves.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2017
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Rahm’s police academy plan met with youth-led backlash from #NoCopAcademy campaign
Activists call on city to redirect $95 million toward education of kids, not cops.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 19, 2017
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Cook County’s tradition of using bail as punishment may be hard to change
Cook County judges have been ordered to consider defendants’ ability to pay when setting bail.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2017
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Mother of teen killed by Chicago police officer Marco Proano ‘glad the verdict was guilty’
Proano never faced criminal charges for fatally shooting 19-year-old Niko Husband, whose family is still seeking justice.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2017
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Emanuel embraces Madigan’s CPD reform lawsuit—while fighting an identical suit from Black Lives Matter
Chicago's mayor gets aboard a police reform effort from Illinois’s attorney general, but will victims of police violence be sidelined?
