The surplus of footage made available by IPRA reveals more about the limitations of video than it does about the nature of police shootings.
Tag: Police Shootings
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Bullets Over Broadway, The Producers, MPAACT’s Feral, and nine more new theater reviews
Two hit musical comedies and a drama examining the Chicago Police Department’s “systemic racism” are among this week’s best bets.
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Here’s what’s missing from the Police Accountability Task Force report
Poverty and segregation underlie many of our policing problems, but don’t expect a task force to address them.
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Today’s young journalists: Committed to muckraking and not afraid to starve
Chicago’s City Bureau is providing this generation’s version of the anguished reporters of 60s—the ones who reported because somebody had to reveal the truth.
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Why everyone should be dreaming of a #BlackXmas
This holiday season, thank a protester.
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Van Dyke said he feared McDonald’s knife could shoot bullets
The Chicago police officer charged with murdering Laquan McDonald told a detective he had previously been warned about so-called “revolver knives.”
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This is Rahm Emanuel’s Katrina moment
The cover-up of Laquan McDonald’s death is proof that Emanuel and his allies don’t care about black people.
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Emanuel discovers the need for police accountability reforms
Four and a half years after he assumed office—but only one week after the release of the Laquan McDonald video—the mayor determines that the city’s police review authority needs to be examined.
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What Mayor Emanuel needs to learn from the killing of Laquan McDonald
Chicago has a systemic problem that won’t be solved with the charging of a single officer.
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After months of protests, the city acts on the police-involved shooting deaths of Laquan McDonald and Rekia Boyd
Officer Jason Van Dyke has been charged with murder; officer Dante Servin will be recommended for firing.
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In freedom of information triumph, Chicago police misconduct complaint records now online
But the victory is limited by an injunction that insulates the vast majority of police shooting investigations from public scrutiny.
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IPRA recommends the firing of a Chicago police officer involved in a shooting
After a drive-by shooting on North Ashland in 2011, an off-duty officer shot 16 times at the wrong car, according to the Independent Police Review Authority.
Posted inNews & Politics
When Chicago cops shoot
Since 1986 more than 1,600 people have been struck by bullets fired by Chicago police officers—an average of more than one person a week. In the 208 cases closed over the last two years, not a single shooting has been found to be unjustified. Should we be reassured?
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Who watches the watchers of the watchers? Our City Council, that’s who.
Aldermen call in the head of new Independent Police Review Authority for questioning.