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The city’s effort to stem police misconduct is falling short, leaving abusive officers to operate with near impunity.

Angela Caputo

May, 2012 Abusando la placa policial Glenn Evans observaba desde el costado de su casa en West Pullman mientras a un hombre alto de proporción robusta que se acercaba lentamente por el camino. “Vete de mi propiedad”, él gritó. Pero eso no impidió que el hombre caminara lentamente y con paso firme hasta que pegó el papel de color naranja brillante—un aviso de desconexión del agua—en un tubo de desagüe de la casa de ladrillo de un... > Read More	May, 2012 Abusing the badge DATA: Click here to see the list of officers named in misconduct suits.Glenn Evans watched from the side of his West Pullman home as a tall man with a wide frame limped up the walk. “Get off my property,” he shouted. But that didn’t stop the man from stepping slowly and steadily forward until he slapped the bright orange paper—a water-shutoff notice—on a drain pipe of Evans’ single-story brick... > Read More	March, 2012 Rebuilding Themselves This story is the first installment in a series of 12 profiles on anti-violence organizations throughout Chicago. The series is funded by the Field Foundation. By the time Adrian Hernandez reached adolescence, he knew how to stand his ground in a schoolyard brawl. As Mexican growing up on a West Humboldt Park block dominated by Puerto Ricans, he never got much respect. And he’d taken enough... > Read More
March, 2012 Minorities fail to get into top grammar schools The news: In March, acceptance letters will go out to Chicago students who applied for coveted seats in the city’s highest-performing schools.Behind the news: Odds are that white students will have an edge in getting into Chicago’s strongest grammar schools, a Chicago Reporter analysis of enrollment data found.While white students’ overall enrollment has shrunk, the share of white students... > Read More	January, 2012 Fosa de dinero subsidiada Mary Smith vivía en una tranquila cuadra de Woodlawn en 1978 cuando recibió la noticia de que había obtenido un departamento en uno de los primeros edificios de subsidio federal. En ese entonces, el edificio de ladrillo dorado con patio del 6134 Sur de la Avenida Kimbark era un brillante lugar en el vecindario, el cual luchaba por recuperar su posición tras una década de disturbios seguida del... > Read More	January, 2012 Following Finney One fall morning, Leon Finney Jr. speeds from block to block pointing out each of the townhomes and high-rise apartment buildings he’s built in the Woodlawn community in the past four decades. With his personal cameraman in tow, the community organizer turned real estate developer and pastor pulls his Lexus sedan to the side of the road every few blocks and hastily jumps out with his keys still... > Read More
January, 2012 Subsidized money pit Mary Smith was living on a quiet Woodlawn block in 1978 when she got the news that she landed an apartment in one of the neighborhood’s first federally subsidized buildings. At the time, the golden-brick courtyard building at 6134 S. Kimbark Ave. was a bright spot in the neighborhood, which was struggling to regain its footing a decade after a spate of rioting that followed Martin Luther King Jr... > Read More	November, 2011 Razing hell When Stephen Henry moved back to Roseland in 2009 to pastor the church he’d grown up attending, one of the first things he did was size up the neighborhood. The technology consultant-turned-pastor hadn’t lived there in more than two decades after moving to Atlanta.“The neighborhood wasn’t so neighborly anymore,” said the 46-year-old. “It was just the ’hood.”A vacant lot sat to the left of Mary... > Read More	September, 2011 Uno y se acaba Un abogado contratado por una compañía que administra las propiedades de la Autoridad de Vivienda de Chicago (CHA) se acercó a ella. Ella lo siguió hasta la sala 1302 y fue conducida a una pequeña área de conferencias escondida en el rincón. Un flujo constante de casos de desalojo era llamado a la banca mientras ellos caminaban. La CHA quería hacer un trato; si ella acordaba mudarse... > Read More