News
Chicago mayor proposes $80M cut from police budget, but is that defunding the police?
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As budget hearings begin, aldermen and advocates say the cuts are a drop in the bucket.
News
Injustice Watch mailed its judicial election guide to 1,000 detainees at Cook County Jail. They never received them.
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Officials said workers in the jail’s mailroom incorrectly identified the election guides as contraband.
News
‘Punishment and Profits’: Q&A with Adam Goodman, author of The Deportation Machine
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A new book by the UIC historian lays out how the United States built a well-oiled bureaucracy that’s deported 57 million people, the companies that profited off of those deportations, and how the country became obsessed with inflicting pain on immigrants.
news analysis
Check Your Judges: Why Cook County judicial elections matter
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Judicial elections bring high stakes and consequences, especially for Black, Latinx and other marginalized groups disproportionately impacted by the justice system.
In Plain View
U.S. House subcommittee investigates cops tied to racist, xenophobic Facebook posts
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The departments were all named in Injustice Watch’s “In Plain View” investigation into troubling social media posts by law enforcement officers.
Commentary
Black Chicago has been looted for decades
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Three weeks ago, the nation was transfixed on images of people running out of downtown stores with their hands full. But the historic plunder of Black Chicago deserves our attention, too.
News
Kenosha police shooting of Jacob Blake spotlights systemic racism, police spending in Wisconsin
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Wisconsin cities with the highest numbers of Black residents tend to spend more on policing. Those police forces are also a lot whiter than the cities they serve.
News
Chicago Is Spending $1.6 Billion on 13,000 Police. Is It Worth It?
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With shootings and murders on the rise and President Trump sending federal agents to the city, community organizers and criminologists point to a police hiring spree from just four years ago to show that more cops on Chicago’s streets aren’t the answer.
Immigration
Southwest Side construction worker quickly deported to Mexico while awaiting DACA decision
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With the Trump administration seeking to kill the Obama-era program for immigrants, Jesus Alberto ‘Beto’ Lopez Gutierrez, 25, was deported after suing ICE.
News
Proposal to boot Chicago cops from public schools rejected by school board
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Three school board members backed the proposal, but they could not sway their colleagues.