Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/)
A report by the inspector general’s office calls on the police department to make immediate changes to its list of 134,000 mostly Black and Latinx individuals unfairly designated as gang members.
The city normally removes campaign signs from public property, but otherwise they become eye sores that residents have to clean up themselves.
Thousands are misled into switching suppliers in the hopes of saving money but instead see their utility bills spike, sometimes driving them into debt.
Our analysis shows a troubling pattern of officers charging alleged victims of police misconduct with aggravated battery or assault to a police officer or resisting arrest.
Female prison inmates are being disciplined at much higher rates than men for lower-level offenses in many states.
The district’s most vulnerable students often end up in alternative schools that are especially under-resourced to cope with the trauma of gun violence.
The state has stalled on requiring school districts with the highest suspension and expulsion rates to improve.
