Police and security are meant to keep concertgoers safe, but what happens when they do more harm than good? In summer 2020, as America reckoned with a sickness in its system of law enforcement, so too did the music community interrogate the role of police and hired security at concerts. Like the municipalities that explored […]
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ShotSpotter’s deafening impact
The surveillance technology is still disproportionately listening to Black and Brown communities.
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Bail abolition is just the tip of the iceberg
A deep dive into Illinois’s sweeping new criminal justice reform law
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Lightfoot turns city’s infrastructure into weapons against protesters
When election and racial justice protests rocked Chicago, the mayor used raised bridges and shut down public transportation as crowd control measures, which harmed the city’s workers.
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Activists say mayor’s police reform promises ring hollow
Lori Lightfoot has hampered the process of installing a police oversight council, activists say, despite making it a major part of her public safety platform during her mayoral run.
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Caught between black and blue
Was the police shooting of Harith Augustus justified? Is Blue Lives Matter for white cops only? Three black Chicago-area officers talk about what things look like from where they stand.
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Matt Taibbi: The case of Eric Garner proves that broken windows policing is broken
A Q&A with prolific Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi about his new book that tells the full story of the Eric Garner case that helped spark the Black Lives Matters movement.
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Chris Hayes says America’s founders would be offended by the modern police state
In his new book A Colony in a Nation, the journalist and MSNBC host compares current-day policing in cities like Chicago to British rule just before the American Revolution.
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Patriots Day soft-pedals the citywide lockdown that followed the Boston Marathon bombing
Mark Wahlberg stars as a Boston cop on the trail of two lone-wolf jihadists.
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A workshop on ‘cop watching’ shows Chicagoans how to safely document police stops
The People’s Response Team recently taught a class on the monitoring of interactions between citizens and police officers.
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Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget
Every year, police take millions of dollars from ordinary Chicagoans and spend it behind closed doors.
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Do we have the right people locked up?
How a medieval court system is costing you money—and compromising safety
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A former investigator of police misconduct on the questions she never asked
A former investigator of police misconduct tackles the questions she never asked.
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The cop who wants to fight crime with the community
The West Humboldt cop who wants to fight crime with the community.
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Addicted to guns
Is there a cure for Chicago’s crippling dependence on firearms?