Significant issues remain around police use of involuntary commitments.
Tag: Invisible Institute
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Unionizing to keep the Experimental Station community alive
Workers at the pioneering south side space organize against unfair labor practices.
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Chicago won’t pay ‘hush money’ to prevent police misconduct records release—for now
A City Council vote on Charles Green’s lawsuit settlement was postponed.
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One murder, four years, no answers
A mother takes to podcasting wondering if CPD did “a cover-up or are they just this damn incompetent?”
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Invisible Institute launches expanded police misconduct database
Police union spokesman says “motives” behind database are “perfectly transparent.”
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Chicago Data Collaborative launches criminal justice data portal
The cooperative connects the dots between data sets about the same person or case buried among various city and county agencies.
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For the People Artists Collective looks back on 100 years of police violence in Chicago
“Do Not Resist?” spreads its message throughout the city
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Lots of questions about police accountability, few satisfying answers from IPRA director
Sharon Fairley spoke with the Invisible Institute’s Jamie Kalven—and a room of Chicagoans sick of waiting for police reform.
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People Issue 2016: Nineteen Chicagoans in their own words
An Nobel Prize-winning chemist, a 12-year-old theater critic, an American Ninja Warrior stuntman, and more extraordinary Chicagoans
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New ‘Yelp for cops’ app takes epidemiological approach to police misconduct
Though it’s a private middleman for complaints, police transparency advocates welcome Excuse Me Officer.
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Chicago police union plans last ditch effort to hide police misconduct records
But options for blocking biggest cop data dump in history are dwindling.
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The trials after exoneration
In Exoneree Diaries, journalist Alison Flowers documents the struggles of four murder convicts who were absolved and freed.
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Jamie Kalven honored for journalistic valor
Jamie Kalven wins a Ridenhour Courage Prize.
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Jamie Kalven wins Polk Award for his coverage of Laquan McDonald
The Invisible Institute founder is being honored not only for what he reported but for what he predicted.
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Invisible Institute wins $400,000 Knight grant
The Invisible Institute was demanding the release of any police video of 2014’s fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald even before it was certain a video existed.