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Rejecting logic, Anita Alvarez embraces injustice

Alvarez’s job is to put and keep killers behind bars and move to promptly to free the innocent her office has wrongly convicted, but she’s done exactly the opposite in these cases.

by Rob Warden March 3, 2016December 5, 2023

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What Alvarez could (but probably won’t) do to curtail police perjury

I refer to the incontrovertible fact that police officers lie under oath with impunity — and with full knowledge and tacit support of Alvarez, her predecessors, and myriad present and former assistant state’s attorneys in contravention of their sworn duty to uphold the law.

by Rob Warden February 4, 2016December 5, 2023

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Beat, shoot or abuse someone? No jail for Chicago cops

About four times a month, officers shoot suspects, bystanders or other police. Yet, in a typical year, prosecutors bring excessive-force charges against on-duty Chicago police fewer than two times a year, an Injustice Watch analysis of federal and state data shows.

by Emily Hoerner, Zoë Rosenbaum and Rick Tulsky January 14, 2016April 2, 2024

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Police shootings not all equal; but politics clouds reviews in each

by Rick Tulsky December 24, 2015December 5, 2023

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What you missed: Commander acquitted and the role of police video

by Rick Tulsky December 14, 2015December 5, 2023

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Despite DNA, Alvarez fails to bring charges in two murders

While Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s alleged mishandling of the Laquan McDonald case has drawn fury from myriad critics in recent days, her equally troubling failure to prosecute men linked by DNA to two murders has received scant public attention.

by Rob Warden December 9, 2015December 5, 2023

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Everything you should know about Chicago police accountability

by Rick Tulsky December 7, 2015December 5, 2023

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Tinkering won’t curtail police deadly force

A thorough investigation of the shooting of Laquan McDonald, of course, is in order, as are investigations into every other recent and ensuing use of deadly force by Chicago police. Chicagoans deserve, and have every right to demand, honest answers — but the answers by themselves won’t change the status quo.

by Rob Warden November 30, 2015December 5, 2023

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Anita Alvarez’s pattern of dubious judgments

The belated charging Tuesday of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke with the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald more than 13 months ago ought to be viewed as an indictment of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez for dereliction of duty.

by Rob Warden November 25, 2015December 5, 2023

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