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    Police and Prosecutors

    Stories about policing, wrongful convictions, and prosecutorial misconduct.

    News

    Chicago mayor proposes $80M cut from police budget, but is that defunding the police?

    By Carlos Ballesteros and Grace Del Vecchio (City Bureau) | October 26, 2020

    As budget hearings begin, aldermen and advocates say the cuts are a drop in the bucket.

    Cicero Independiente

    Cicero police employee accused of domestic violence kept job despite investigator’s warning

    By Abel Rodriguez (Cicero Independiente) and Luis Velazquez (Cicero Independiente) | September 29, 2020

    Failing to fire the lockup keeper would discredit the department, warned the investigator. But the police chief suspended the alleged abuser instead.

    In Plain View

    U.S. House subcommittee investigates cops tied to racist, xenophobic Facebook posts

    By Carlos Ballesteros and Emily Hoerner | September 28, 2020

    The departments were all named in Injustice Watch’s “In Plain View” investigation into troubling social media posts by law enforcement officers.

    Police and Prosecutors

    Missouri Attorney General’s Office pushes to keep innocent people in prison

    By Emily Hoerner | September 11, 2020

    Its decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years.

    Police and Prosecutors

    From prison, Rico Clark fights a murder conviction and COVID-19

    By Stender Von Oehsen and Milan Rivas | September 2, 2020

    Detectives on the 2006 case have been dogged by allegations of witness coercion and Clark’s trial attorney has since been disbarred.

    Commentary

    Black Chicago has been looted for decades

    By Carlos Ballesteros | September 1, 2020

    Three weeks ago, the nation was transfixed on images of people running out of downtown stores with their hands full. But the historic plunder of Black Chicago deserves our attention, too.

    News

    Kenosha police shooting of Jacob Blake spotlights systemic racism, police spending in Wisconsin

    By Carlos Ballesteros and Adam Mahoney (Grist) | August 31, 2020

    Wisconsin cities with the highest numbers of Black residents tend to spend more on policing. Those police forces are also a lot whiter than the cities they serve.

    Police and Prosecutors

    State rep to sue Chicago Police for ‘unjust treatment’ after gun charge dropped

    By Maxwell Evans (Block Club Chicago) | August 24, 2020

    “My treatment was a lot different than if it had been my predecessor — a white woman — driving through the neighborhood,” State Rep. Curtis Tarver said.

    News

    The Chicago police union is trying to put its members on the state’s torture inquiry commission

    By Adeshina Emmanuel and Olivia Louthen | August 6, 2020

    Two bills introduced by Republicans in the state legislature are “a smack in the face,” says one torture survivor.

    News

    Chicago Is Spending $1.6 Billion on 13,000 Police. Is It Worth It?

    By Carlos Ballesteros | July 30, 2020

    With shootings and murders on the rise and President Trump sending federal agents to the city, community organizers and criminologists point to a police hiring spree from just four years ago to show that more cops on Chicago’s streets aren’t the answer.

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