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Jonah Newman

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Jonah is a reporter for The Chicago Reporter. Email him at jnewman@chicagoreporter.com and follow him on Twitter @jonahshai.

election 2018

Midterm elections: A judge is ousted and Democrats win big across the state

By Jonah Newman | November 6, 2018

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

By Jonah Newman | October 23, 2018

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

By Jonah Newman | September 14, 2018

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

By Jonah Newman | July 27, 2018

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

By Jonah Newman and Nikki Baim | July 24, 2018

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

By Jonah Newman | May 1, 2018

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

By Jonah Newman | April 6, 2018

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

By Jonah Newman | October 25, 2017

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

By Jonah Newman | September 13, 2017

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

By Jonah Newman and Geoff Hing | September 13, 2017

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.

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