Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/author/matt-chapman/)
Matt Chapman is a freelance data and systems engineer with a deep love for FOIA and its potential to improve understandings of the world around us. On the side, he works with Lucy Parsons Labs, Invisible Institute, and has managed his own NFP, Free Our Info. His past work includes archival work of global warming websites, Chicago parking tickets analysis and visualization, several FOIA lawsuits, and a project to collect government email metadata from around the U.S.
Just 20% of arrests during the first few days of protests over the killing of George Floyd were for looting-related crimes, new data shows, refuting earlier statements by CPD that looting accounted for the majority of arrests that weekend.