Stories about policing, wrongful convictions, and prosecutorial misconduct.
Its decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years.
Detectives on the 2006 case have been dogged by allegations of witness coercion and Clark’s trial attorney has since been disbarred.
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.
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.
“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.
Two bills introduced by Republicans in the state legislature are “a smack in the face,” says one torture survivor.
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.
The announcement comes after a joint investigation by Chalkbeat Chicago and Block Club Chicago spotlighted transparency issues with the public bodies.
Miracle Boyd, 18, is an organizer with GoodKids MadCity and a rising Chicago youth leader. An unidentified police officer struck her in the mouth Friday at a Black, Indigenous American rally, breaking several of her teeth.
More than 70 schools have to vote on the issue by Aug. 15, per a mandate from Chicago Public Schools.