News
Chicago has nearly tripled per capita police spending since 1964, data show
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For activists and city leaders calling on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to cut the police budget, it’s clear that the money could be better spent elsewhere.
Commentary
Open letter to Chicago’s top cop: COVID-19 police ‘surge’ terrorizing West Side black communities
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Organizer Richard Wallace says the police department is using force to make black residents follow stay-at-home orders, “regardless of the circumstance.”
Cook County Judicial Primary Election March 2018
Chicago lawyer running for judge accused of withholding evidence
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Chicago attorney and candidate for judge Jonathan Clark Green, who represents the city, has been involved in several police abuse lawsuits in which the city has been accused of hiding evidence.
News
DNA disproves evidence used to convict two in 1986 Chicago murder, lawyers say
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Recent DNA testing supports the contention of inmates Curtis Croft and Demetrius Henderson that they have spent years in prison for a rape and murder they did not commit, a newly-filed petition states.
The Long Wait
Aging prisoners left to arbitrary process to win release
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A state board uses an arbitrary and opaque process to decide whether prisoners convicted of committing violent crimes decades ago should be released, an Injustice Watch review has found. The process is wracked by subjectivity, and that problem is not confined to Illinois.
Projects
Pattern of misstated facts found in opinions of renowned U.S. Judge Easterbrook
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When respected law professor Albert Alschuler said renowned federal appeals court judge Frank Easterbrook engaged in “eight whoppers” in a high-profile case, Injustice Watch undertook a review of the judge’s other cases. The result: A pattern of misrepresenting facts: Misstatements, omissions and wrong assumptions.
Commentary
Why the public doubts Cook County’s brand of justice
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The mistrust of the Criminal Division stems from a dysfunctional judicial-selection system under which Cook County voters put judges on the bench with virtually no information predictive of their ability or inclination to exercise judicial power responsibly.
News
McCarthy left Newark police a mess, too
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When he took the job as police superintendent in Chicago in 2011, Garry McCarthy left behind a department in Newark that faced many of the same type of problems that now plague the Chicago Police Department.