Zoe Rosenbaum (reporting fellow) is a recent graduate from the University of Colorado, Zoe discovered her profound interest in the criminal justice system during her last semester. After moving back to her hometown of Chicago, she found Injustice Watch, where she devoted herself to researching, writing, and exposing injustice.
If history is a guide, the principal attributes of the winners in Cook County’s judicial races will not be their qualifications — their legal experience, education, and temperament — but rather the ethnicity of their names, their skin color, gender, campaign financing, and ballot position.
About four times a month, officers shoot suspects, bystanders or other police. Yet, in a typical year, prosecutors bring excessive-force charges against on-duty Chicago police fewer than two times a year, an Injustice Watch analysis of federal and state data shows.
It commonly takes years to act against judges who violate the Illinois Code of Judicial Conduct, and the punishment seldom is more than a public reprimand, Injustice Watch’s first investigation found.