Injustice Watch (https://www.injusticewatch.org/news/police-and-prosecutors/page/2/)
Stories about policing, wrongful convictions, and prosecutorial misconduct.
The Exoneration Project lawsuit asks the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office to disclose DNA samples that have been matched to old crimes, which could lead to exonerations.
An open letter to John Catanzara, the newly elected president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7.
Three school board members backed the proposal, but they could not sway their colleagues.
Most unions don’t aggressively shield their members from accountability for murder. Police unions are another story.
“Reform is a perfectly warm, comforting blanket. It is comfortable and sedating. But it also smothers.”
“I guess they wanted to make an example out of us,” said Shantee Mason-Tanzie, one of 26 people arrested after alleged looting in Champaign County on May 31.
“The police violence and the impact of the pandemic are two sides of the same coin,” writes Susan Smith Richardson, CEO of the Center for Public Integrity.
For activists and city leaders calling on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to cut the police budget, it’s clear that the money could be better spent elsewhere.
In an emotional hearing Friday, a Philadelphia judge vacated Ogrod’s death sentence and convictions for the 1996 murder of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn. He walked free after 28 years behind bars.
Clashes between police and protesters have led to a large number of allegations of police misconduct. The Chicago Reporter originally published this story.