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Fast-Track Deportations

Thousands are being deported without a chance to appear before an immigration judge.

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Police misconduct

May/June 2012

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

Table of Contents

Abusing the badge

Angela Caputo

A small group of officers who have cost the City of Chicago millions in police misconduct lawsuits remain on the force with few signs of discipline.

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Cover Stories

Abusando la placa policial

Un pequeño grupo de oficiales que le han costado a la ciudad de Chicago millones en demandas por mala conducta policial permanecen en la fuerza con pocas señales de disciplina.

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Cover Stories

Rogue section

On May 17, 2005, officers from the Special Operations Section burst into Roberto Ontivero-Artal’s Southwest Side home. After an illegal search, they seized drugs and $30,000 in cash. They turned in the drugs and only $463 as evidence—the rest they split among themselves.

Keith Herrera,...

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Cover Stories

Veteran watchdog

Citizens Alert celebrates 45 years of pressing for more transparency

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Editor's Note

Tarnished trust

Florida’s Trayvon Martin case taught us a lot of things. But among the lessons learned is that police accountability is not only a Windy City issue.

In Chicago, I would argue that the lack of accountability with rogue officers has left residents of high-crime neighborhoods distrustful of...

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Spin Offs

Contraception used less by minority youth

The news: In February, President Barack Obama announced “accommodation” to faith-based organizations by directing their health insurance companies to cover the costs for the new requirement that contraception be covered under insurance.

Behind the...

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Spin Offs

LGBT youth lack support

The news: A March study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, based on experiences of 246 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth around Chicago, found that low social support and victimization among LGBT youth contribute to the higher risk of suicidal...

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Spin Offs

Program aims for inmate reduction

The news: In March, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office celebrated the first anniversary of its Deferred Prosecution program. More than 370 offenders who have been accepted into the program can avoid jail time and get their felony charges dismissed after...

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Spin Offs

More repeat health code violators on South Side

The news: The City of Chicago launched a pilot program in March to streamline food inspection processes, requiring fewer routine assessments for low-risk food establishments.

Behind the news: Food establishments that fail five or more...

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New Voices

Holding down the fort

Keeping veterans off the streets one soldier at a time

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Reporter News: May/June 2012

The Chicago Reporter has won the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for journalism, a long-standing and prestigious national award, for its work that revealed the way public housing residents are being kicked out by the Chicago Housing...

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Letter to the Editor: Change comes one youth at a time

From Mary Magdalene Missionary Baptist Church, a small congregation in Roseland, I see a series of enormous tasks that our community faces, including the need to save our youth from the violence that plagues our streets. A recent Chicago Reporter headline said it all: “More young people are...

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