Timeline: Chicago FOP presidents’ turbulent relationship with race and police reform
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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.
Police and Prosecutors
Analysis: Here’s how Chicago’s most powerful police union preserves tradition of problematic leadership
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.
News
Illinois courts name 22 new associate judges in Cook County
Associate judges are chosen via a closed election that only Cook County’s 249 circuit court judges can vote in.
Commentary
3 challenges and opportunities for the new Cook County public defender
By Maria Hawilo (Loyola University Chicago) and Thomas F. Geraghty (Northwestern University) |
A fair and equitable justice system depends on the public defenders whose job it is to represent those people who cannot afford a lawyer. Public defense work is civil rights work.
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