Both the Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability and the Civilian Police Accountability Council campaigns want to maximize the community’s role in selecting public safety leaders.
Criminal Justice
Chicago police investigating 78 complaints of officers removing or covering badges during protests
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Superintendent David Brown declined to specify what would happen to officers caught engaging in the condemned practice.
Civilian Office of Police Accountability
Lightfoot says police officers who cover or remove name tag, badge number, should be fired
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Images and video show Chicago officers hiding identifying information during protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
Criminal Justice
Chicago police launch investigation into officer for covering up name tag, badge number at George Floyd protests
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Violent clashes between police and protesters have led to a large number of allegations of police misconduct.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Chicago needs new use-of-force policy that bans chokeholds
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George Floyd’s horrifying death at the hands of Minneapolis police underscores the urgent need to continue working towards reforms outlined in the consent decree at the Chicago Police Department.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Bail reform and bond funds do not undermine public safety
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A recent Chicago Tribune investigation relies on incomplete data and cherry-picked anecdotes to attack the work of the Chicago Community Bond Fund and The Bail Project.
Coronavirus
Inside Division 16, Cook County Jail’s COVID-19 positive detainees say they’re waiting to die
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In phone interviews with The Chicago Reporter, men inside the jail’s quarantine facility doubt their ability to recover while waiting for their day in court.
Coronavirus
Federal judge denies mass release at Cook County Jail, named ‘top U.S. hot spot’ for COVID-19
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New safety measures have been ordered while advocates insist that medical vulnerabilities are being ignored and many remain locked up only because they can’t afford bail.
Coronavirus
Stateville prison outbreak signals COVID-19 threat to inmates, surrounding hospital systems
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker is deploying medics from the Illinois National Guard to the Illinois Department of Corrections facility, where advocates have declared a ‘disaster.’
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Cook County Jail should reduce population to address coronavirus threat
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The Chicago Community Bond Fund and dozens of other organizations call to release detainees held because they can’t afford bail and limit new admissions to protect inmates, staff, and the general public.
Unequal Discipline
Federal civil rights agency: Unequal discipline of women in prison must be addressed
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Federal agency cites collaborative investigation by the Reporter, NPR and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University which exposed disparities at prisons across the country.