Stories about policing, wrongful convictions, and prosecutorial misconduct.
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.
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.”
While the state vacated Wayne Washington’s 1996 conviction for Marshall Morgan’s murder, he’s still fighting an uphill battle for an innocence certificate.
Injustice Watch is investigating police misconduct and accountability in Aurora. We need your help.
A Chicago civil rights attorney offers advice for students facing school discipline and their parents.
Un abogado de derechos civiles de Chicago ofrece consejos para los estudiantes que enfrentan disciplina escolar y sus padres.
Más de 100 estudiantes en siete años han firmado “contratos de pandilla” por una presunta afiliación a una pandilla.