election 2018
Midterm elections: A judge is ousted and Democrats win big across the state
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For the first time since 1990, Cook County voters refused to retain a sitting judge.
Settling for Misconduct
Chicago police use ‘cover charges’ to justify excessive force
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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.
Criminal Justice
Meet the nine teams that want to monitor the Chicago Police consent decree
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State and city officials will choose an independent monitor that will have authority over the expensive, years-long effort to reform CPD.
Criminal Justice
Five things to watch as CPD consent decree moves forward
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Several questions remain after Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and Police Supt. Eddie Johnson released a draft plan to reform the Chicago Police Department.
Criminal Justice
Prostitution-loitering law likely to target women of color for arrest
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Chicago police have a record of arresting women for selling sex rather than men for buying it. A new ordinance borrows from anti-loitering measures that target black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
Criminal Justice
Solitary confinement of juveniles on the rise in Cook County
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As other cities and states have moved to ban using solitary confinement as punishment for teens, the practice has increased at one of the largest juvenile jails in the country.
Criminal Justice
U. of C. police shooting came at time of increased stops, continued disparities
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In the months before the off-campus shooting of student Charles Thomas, University of Chicago police sharply stepped-up proactive stops, overwhelmingly targeting people of color, our analysis shows.
Criminal Justice
Bond court reforms may lead to more punitive pretrial conditions: report
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Efforts to reduce the number of poor defendants jailed in Cook County could have harmful unintended consequences, the Chicago Community Bond Fund says.
Criminal Justice
Chicago police slow to make Justice Department’s recommended reforms
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In the absence of a consent decree and independent monitor, The Chicago Reporter is tracking CPD’s progress on police reform.
Criminal Justice
Monitor Chicago’s police reforms
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The Justice Department made 99 recommendations to reform the Chicago Police Department. In the absence of a consent decree, we’re tracking CPD’s progress.