Here’s what you should know about Chicago’s latest police accountability ‘compromise’
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Injustice Watch reviewed the new civilian police oversight ordinance and the changes that it will bring to policing in Chicago.
Staff news
Grace Asiegbu joins Injustice Watch as housing reporter
She plans to explore housing issues through an intersectional lens while examining current housing policies and programs and how they affect communities and people’s everyday lives.
News
More than 30 Chicago high schools will pursue alternatives to police
Maira Khwaja, one of the community representatives on Hyde Park Academy’s council, said the vote to remove one of the police officers at her school represented “a huge win for the movement to remove police from schools and support our students in more holistic ways.”
Commentary
3 challenges and opportunities for the new Cook County public defender
By Maria Hawilo (Loyola University Chicago) and Thomas F. Geraghty (Northwestern University) |
A fair and equitable justice system depends on the public defenders whose job it is to represent those people who cannot afford a lawyer. Public defense work is civil rights work.
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