We broke down the data on specific charges and asked experts to explain why racial disparities are increasing in Cook County criminal court.
News
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.
News
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.
COVID-19
No one knows how many Chicago cops are vaccinated against Covid-19
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How many cops have gotten their vaccine shots? The question has a definite answer. But no one in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office or the police department seems able to put a number on it.
Police and Prosecutors
Here’s what you should know about Chicago’s latest police accountability ‘compromise’
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Injustice Watch reviewed the new civilian police oversight ordinance and the changes that it will bring to policing in Chicago.
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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.”