Stories about policing, wrongful convictions, and prosecutorial misconduct.
Officer David Brian has racked up at least 74 complaints over a 26-year career in the Aurora Police Department, including two recent allegations of sexual harassment that were sustained by department investigators.
We broke down the data on specific charges and asked experts to explain why racial disparities are increasing in Cook County criminal court.
The Illinois Appellate Court ordered Chicago to pay nearly $1 million to the estate of David Strong. He was killed in a 2012 police shooting after cops fired 75 shots at a stolen van he and two accomplices used trying to flee the scene of an attempted burglary.
James Allen, convicted of three murders on scant evidence, remains a long way from freedom.
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.
Injustice Watch reviewed the tenures of past FOP presidents elected by Chicago police, from the civil rights movement to the Black Lives Matter era. We found a history of police union leaders making inflammatory statements, antagonizing racial justice and police reforms, and shielding allegedly brutal cops from accountability.
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.
City officials have repeatedly blamed gangs for driving up shootings. But an analysis shows that the Chicago Police Department’s own data doesn’t back up its leaders’ claims.
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.
Injustice Watch reviewed the new civilian police oversight ordinance and the changes that it will bring to policing in Chicago.