Also, a call to bring back CeaseFire with $3 million in state funding.
Tag: Jason Van Dyke
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Activist calls for boycott of the annual Bud Billiken Parade, and other Chicago news
Also, Trump and Clinton have at least one thing in common: they’ve been booed at Wrigley Field.
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IPRA’s new video archive does little to cut through the fog of Chicago police shootings
The surplus of footage made available by IPRA reveals more about the limitations of video than it does about the nature of police shootings.
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Vic Mensa gets personal and political on his Roc Nation debut, There’s Alot Going On
Chicago rapper Vic Mensa doesn’t always strike the best balance of politics and pop, but he never fails to get his point across.
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Anita Alvarez cedes Laquan McDonald case to special prosecutor, and other Chicago news
Also, what it means to have Empire, Chicago Fire, or the other locally filmed TV shows shoot in your home.
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Mayor Rahm’s silence after police accountability task force report speaks volumes about his fear of cops
He would have had a different reaction if one of his appointed task forces had blasted teachers the way his task force ripped into police.
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Chicago police union hires Jason Van Dyke, and other news
Also, don’t rule out a 2019 mayoral run from Cook County sheriff Tom Dart.
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Is Cedric Alexander fit to be Chicago’s top cop?
Cedric Alexander could be Chicago’s next top cop. But many residents of DeKalb County, Georgia, say he’s failed to fix one police department sorely in need of reform.
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Police officer Jason Van Dyke doesn’t want to attend his own murder trial, and more Chicago news
RIP Winnetka Section Eight voucher holder, Anthony Bourdain explores Chicago, a speculative history of Carmelo Anthony as a Bull, and more news.
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Hillary Clinton avoids Rahm Emanuel, and other Chicago news
Also, embattled Cook County state’s attorney Anita Alvarez reportedly did not charge Chicago cops involved in the fatal shootings of at least 68 people.
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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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Some African-American cops feel caught between black and blue
Chicago’s black police officers describe navigating dual loyalties—to the force for which they work and the communities from which they came.
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What the Van Dyke murder trial judge has in common with Laquan McDonald
Vincent Gaughan posed a public danger one morning when he was 28. But the police response was far different from Jason Van Dyke’s.
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Surprise: City’s Laquan McDonald e-mails show Emanuel’s staff trying to cover his ass
There’s no “smoking gun” in the mayor’s massive e-mail dump—but there is a lot of back-and-forth on how to manage the scandal.
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Hey, Mayor Rahm, reopen the mental health clinics!
Looking to blame someone or something for the failures of his reign, Mayor Rahm discovers “mental health crises” four years after he closed mental health clinics in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods.