Commentary
Where is the urgency to decarcerate the Cook County Jail?
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While the Cook County Jail experiences its worst Covid outbreak yet, county officials drag their feet on steps that could save lives.
Commentary
Police sexual misconduct and the ‘credibility discount’
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“Credibility is a form of power, meted out along familiar lines of power,” writes Northwestern University law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer in response to our recent investigation into sexual harassment allegations against an Aurora police officer.
Commentary
A lawsuit against Injustice Watch tried to upend First Amendment protections. It failed.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take the appeal of a Philadelphia police officer’s case, which sought to reverse the long-standing ‘actual malice’ doctrine in defamation cases against news organizations.
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.