Commentary
How I visualized the turbulent tenures of Chicago’s FOP presidents
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Local artist Veronica Martinez describes how she approached illustrating portraits of the eight leaders of Chicago’s largest police union.
Commentary
3 challenges and opportunities for the new Cook County public defender
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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. It is the public defender who raises questions about interrogation methods, unlawful police stops, and excessive bail. It is also racial justice work. Nowhere is racial injustice more apparent than in the impact our criminal laws have had on people of color, particularly Black people.
Commentary
Chicago police are developing a foot-pursuit policy. It must be public and enforced.
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If the Chicago Police Department had adopted de-escalation as a practice and culture, Adam Toledo and Anthony Alvarez might still be alive, writes attorney and advocate Cliff Nellis.
Commentary
Ten years ago Illinois abolished the death penalty. These people helped make it happen.
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Seven people who advocated for the end of capital punishment reflect on the movement that led Illinois to abolish the death penalty in 2011.
Collateral Consequences
Left behind: How deportation affects a Chicago mother and her 6 kids
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A Chicago mother explains how her husband’s 15-year-old conviction led to three deportations and a family torn apart.
Collateral Consequences
Dejados atrás: cómo la deportación afecta a una madre de Chicago y a sus 6 hijos
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Una madre de Chicago explica cómo la condena de 15 años de su marido provocó tres deportaciones y una familia destrozada.
Essential Work
Video: ‘The allegory of the activist’
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This short film is part of Injustice Watch’s Essential Work project, a first-person storytelling series by young Black Chicago activists.
Essential Work
Essential Work: ‘Where did we agree to sign away our identities when we decided to fight for freedom?’
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Injustice Watch has relaunched its Essential Work project about young Black Chicago activists. In this essay, an organizer known as Naira reflects on the summer uprisings and pushes back on the dehumanization of Black radicals and protesters, from Assata Shakur to today’s Black youth.
Staff news
Meet the reporters: A Q&A with new Injustice Watch staff Josh McGhee and Rita Oceguera
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In an interview with Editor-in-Chief Adeshina Emmanuel, Josh and Rita discussed what issues they’re covering, and how they’re making sense of 2020.
Commentary
Terrorists, real and imagined
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As attorney Jeffrey Urdangen watched the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack, he thought of the 2007 terrorism case against a former client named Olutosin Oduwole, who was an aspiring rapper in southern Illinois when prosecutors alleged his lyrics were terrorist threats.