We interviewed past and present police union presidents, activists, and legal scholars for perspectives about the role FOP leaders have played since the organization established itself in Chicago nearly 60 years ago.
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After 34 years, a murder conviction quietly reversed in 4 minutes
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James Allen, convicted of three murders on scant evidence, remains a long way from freedom.
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In Mount Prospect, a village divided over the ‘thin blue line’
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Mount Prospect, Ill. is the latest of dozens of U.S. cities and towns to take steps toward restricting use of the ‘thin blue line’ by police and other government agencies. The controversial symbol has become a focal point for community tensions over race and policing in recent years — especially in the wake of the nationwide protests against police violence last summer.
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More than 30 Chicago high schools will pursue alternatives to police
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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.”
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Illinois appellate court denies exonerated man’s innocence certificate
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While the state vacated Wayne Washington’s 1996 conviction for Marshall Morgan’s murder, he’s still fighting an uphill battle for an innocence certificate.
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