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Six years ago today, Laquan McDonald was murdered by a Chicago police officer. He lost his life due to systemic failures by our city & egregious abuse of police power. The injustice in the aftermath was met with organizing that changed our city.
We still seek justice for Laquan.
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Announcing the Chicago Police Torture Archive: the first human rights archive documenting the violence and terror levied against more than 100 Black people under notorious Commander Jon Burge and his “Midnight Crew” from the 1970s-1990s.
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Today, Black Lives Matter and community groups in Chicago filed a historic class action suit seeking a court-appointed monitor of the CPD.
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According to our most recent data, Chicago Police Officer Eric Stillman who killed
#AdamToledo
has 3 complaints + 4 use of force reports btwn 2017 & mid-2020. Here is an update:
We are working to update to reflect new data.
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CITIZENS POLICE DATA PROJECT lets you look up the career history of Chicago Police officers, read complaints filed against officers, and notice patterns in our city’s police department. you can use it on the ground on your phone at
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"The source said that the Laquan McDonald shooting was nothing like what had been reported, and that there was dashboard camera video to prove it... In January 2015,
@jamiekalven
obtained the autopsy report — a painstaking record of 16 bullets."
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CHICAGO: we are working on an investigative account of how police use force as protestors exercise their right to free speech & assembly. DM us or email (email preferred) our lead reporter andrew
@invisibleinstitute
.com.
send other videos of Chicago protest to
@SouthSideWeekly
.
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Today, we remember Rekia Boyd, who was killed 10 years ago by off-duty Chicago Police officer Dante Servin. This evening in 2012, she was a 22-year-old Black woman headed to a party with friends in North Lawndale.
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🧵OUT NOW: Beneath the Surface, our project that investigates gender-based violence at the hands of the police, has released its first set of findings from our data investigation into 27,000 Chicago Police complaint documents:
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After a 2 year investigation,
@anfan
&
@samstecklow
release their findings on Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson.
Johnson investigated & commanded the officers responsible for 5 fatal shootings of young black Chicagoans, including
#RekiaBoyd
.
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NEW: Chicago Police covered up dash-cam footage in
#HarithAugustus
case.
Newly released video, withheld by CPD for over a year, and our investigation w
@ForensicArchi
shows that the fatal encounter was caused by aggressive policing rather than any criminal conduct by Augustus.
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🗣We're excited to announce our 2019-2020 journalism fellow...[drumroll please]🎉
@erisa_apantaku
!! 🎉
Since 2017, Erisa has been the exec producer of
@SouthSideWeekly
Radio. Erisa’s personal audio pieces have played on the BBC program Short Cuts +
@ThirdCoastFest
Re:sound.🎙
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The judge quashed the subpoena, and our executive director
@jamiekalven
was not forced to testify. We share this moment with all the journalists and media organizations who supported us.
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Thanks to everyone for the support & celebration yesterday! We are so thrilled to have won 2
@PulitzerPrizes
in recognition of our missing persons investigation with
@city_bureau
& our second audio podcast You Didn't See Nothin. 🥳
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Prior to a shooting, officers typically register complaint rates about twice as high as their colleagues. They are three times more likely to have been involved in another shooting in the last year.
#ChicagoPoliceFiles
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NEW details in the Chicago Police killing of Anthony Alvarez, 22. Upon collapsing, Alvarez asks the officer “Why are you shooting me?” Video
@ChicagoCOPA
will be released soon. Read more by
@jamiekalven
&
@g0ingmad
in
@theintercept
&
@SouthSideWeekly
.
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We are thrilled to announce that
@hilesh
will be our next executive director. He joins us from
@FieldFoundation
, and was previously at
@HPAC_chicago
. Read more:
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This weekend,
@jamiekalven
's code of silence article will be distributed as a pamphlet at 400 Chicago locations.
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Congratulations to the team behind
#16Shots
- we won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary! it was an honor to work w Rick & Jacqueline Rowley &
@karimhajjfilm
to produce this investigation for
@Showtime
.
RIP Laquan McDonald. Your story lives.
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We're hiring! We're seeking to contract with a data analyst over the next 8 months. You would work with
@trinatrill
and
@anfan
to make police misconduct data public & accessible, and to investigate gender-based violence.
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About 1,300 of Chicago’s cops fall into clusters of linked police officers who together have been the subject of at least 100 citizen complaints against them.
#ChicagoPoliceFiles
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No, this is not a win for transparency.🧵:
1. The Lightfoot version of this ordinance would only give the public a small percentage of complaints, whichever get *disciplined*. Most complaints don’t get disciplined. (see front page to see how small a %)
“This is a common-sense step toward government accountability,” said Ald. Scott Waguespack, chair of the City Council's Finance Committee.
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You Didn't See Nothin wins
@PeabodyAwards
!
Congrats to our award-winning audio team:
@YohanceLacour
,
@chicagoan
,
@brozost
,
@_erisaja
,
@sarahegeis
,
@FlowersAlison
,
@jeven_stackson
, Phil Dmochowski,
@takstarbury
,
@alex_sugiura
, Jamie Kalven, &
@JoshuaBloch
for USG Audio 🥳
🏆 PRESS RELEASE: From traditional broadcast to immersive media, the industry’s most revered institution announces winners for the 84th Annual
#PeabodyAwards
to honor emerging voices, groundbreaking projects, and potent storytelling.
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“[Remaking the Exceptional] provides an entry point into understanding what the actual magnitude is of state violence as a whole domestically [as well as] the way that the US military enacts state violence internationally.”— Aislinn Pulley from
@chitorture
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This week, the IL Supreme Court denied the FOP's appeal - the City now intends to release decades of police misconduct data to the public.
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On March 21, 1997, Lenard Clark was a 13 year-old Black boy enjoying the beginning of a Chicago spring, riding his bike with friends. Crossing into Bridgeport for free air for his tires, Lenard was brutally attacked by a group of white teenagers solely for being Black 1/
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We're honored to learn that
@SomebodyPod
, our co-production with
@theintercept
&
@topicstudios
, has been named a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize. Thank you
@shapearl
, for sharing your journey with
@FlowersAlison
@chicagoan
@sarahegeis
& the team over the past 4 years.
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The Citizens Police Data Project now has records going back to 1967, with data findings from the past 30 years.
Check out
#ChicagoPoliceFiles
on
@theintercept
for the latest analysis.
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LIVE NOW: The Citizens Police Data Project 2.0
#CPDP
now has:
▪️shooting and use of force history
▪️officer names, ranks, awards, and salaries
▪️Chicago Police records going back to 1967.
Explore:
#ChicagoPoliceFiles
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Last week we were honored to have our work recognized. In addition to 2 Pulitzer Prizes & You Didn't See Nothin's Peabody, on Thursday, Missing in Chicago (w/
@city_bureau
) received the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Investigative Reporting in the Small Newsroom Category
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🚨🗂The Chicago Police Files 🗂🚨 launches today, in partnership with
@theintercept
.
First: a report on the current crisis of the civil order in Chicago and the path forward, by
@jamiekalven
.
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In a sense, the reality that Chicago will name a African-American woman as its next mayor contradicts another reality: the city’s disregard for young black lives.
new from David Knight, a collaborator in our Youth/Police Project, in
@ChicagoReporter
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last night
@chicagoan
was honored at the Community Media Awards! Bill is part of our audio team & helped make You Didn’t See Nothin & Somebody the invaluable pieces of audio journalism they are today. 🎉
Meet Bill: Bill Healy crafts impactful and complex stories at the Invisible Institute, producing podcasts like ‘You Didn’t See Nothin,’ a 2024
@PulitzerPrizes
winner, and ‘Somebody,’ a 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist. (Congrats to
@invinst
for this win!)
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The print edition of the Eddie Johnson investigation is out now in
@SouthSideWeekly
, across 300 locations in the south side and 70 locations across the north side, west side, and downtown.
Read
@samstecky
&
@anfan
’s reporting online
@theintercept
:
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Congratulations to our Director of Public Strategy, Maira Khwaja (
@mairaka
), for being named as part of the 2021 Leaders for a New Chicago cohort. Thank you
@FieldFoundation
and
@macfound
!
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BREAKING: Jamie Kalven reports on soon-to-be released video of CPD shooting black, disabled, unarmed teen
@jamiekalven
@theintercept
@invinst
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Chicago Police lied by claiming all
#HarithAugustus
footage had been released. The only available defense against this charge would be a claim of gross incompetence.
New from
@jamiekalven
&
@weizman_eyal
in
@theintercept
:
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🗣 We're hiring an investigative reporter! Are you interested in reporting on police abuse, state violence, and official secrecy in Chicago and beyond? Please share with your networks, and apply at the link below. Applications are due August 31.
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After the police killing of 13 year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago, the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system that brought police to him deserves serious scrutiny.
@jamiekalven
's latest investigation on this problematic tech reform, out now
@theintercept
:
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On Monday, February 15th at 6:30pm, join us,
@chitorture
,
@ChicagoTorture
Memorials, and
@UChiHumanRights
to honor the history and struggle of survivors and their families, and commemorate the launch of the Chicago Police Torture Archive.
REGISTER:
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When observing a police encounter, take note of the officer's last name and badge number. You can provide information to an attorney later, if needed, or help someone file a complaint. Complaint data is helpful for future demands in court.
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Join
@theintercept
on Tuesday for a conversation with
@jamiekalven
,
@eveewing
,
@CharleneCac
,
@MalcolmLondon
, and Bill Ayers.
Get your tickets here:
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YDSN team members attended the Peabody Awards last week to accept our award for You Didn't See Nothin! Listen on all podcast platforms now. Congratulations to all other Peabody award winners and to our partners on the podcast at USG Audio!
Photos: Emma McIntyre for
@PeabodyAwards
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In partnership with
@theintercept
, we are launching CPDP 2.0 along with a series of articles that digs deeper into new data findings.
#ChicagoPoliceFiles
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.
@jamiekalven
gets standing ovation for his reporting around police accountability
#16shots
#Lisagors
@headlineclub
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The words "conspiracy" and "cover-up" have their place, but they're also misleading. What we’re confronting is something in some ways more disturbing, which is the culture.
How many other Laquan McDonalds are there?
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we're hiring! as a member of the open data team, the technologist is responsible for managing the technical infrastructure behind our open data work, working with our team and outside web developers.
learn more & apply
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The era of torture did not start with the Burge crew. It did not end with the Burge crew. In fact, it was not an era at all. The legacy of torture persists to this day.
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The final episodes of You Didn't See Nothin' are out today. Listen to the series in full on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, and join host
@YohanceLacour
on a journey through time on the South Side of Chicago. Catch the full series here:
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What's changed since Laquan McDonald's death? The 2017 guide to Chicago police accountability, by
@samstecky
.
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The journalistic centerpiece of this site are the profiles of police torture survivors, most of whom were represented by
@PeoplesLawChi
, who donated its case files — more than a 100,000 documents — to us and the
@pozencenter
for this project.
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"Without youth-specific training, [school] officers will resort to what they have been trained to do: make arrests."
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our open data work centers on the belief that the public deserves access to data that is understandable and usable. reporter
@samstecklow
is working with a coalition to obtain data on employment and certification history from police departments across the nation. 1/
Across the USA, problematic officers jump from one department to another with no accountability. That’s why
@BigLocalNews
and partners are building a nationwide database to track them. But 15 states are still holding back their records. Learn more here➡️
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Next week we'll preview our findings of Beneath the Surface, which investigates gender-based violence at the hands of Chicago Police.
If you're a Black woman or non-binary person, join us Tuesday on zoom or Thursday in person! RSVP for the full details
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We urge you to know this history, to learn from survivors as they attest to their trauma & to participate in a civil society that no longer disappears such violence.
Join us,
@chitorture
,
@ChicagoTorture
Memorials, &
@UChiHumanRights
on 2/15:
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Going to an action in support of Adam Toledo? Spread the word about ShotSpotter's role in his killing - print & distribute this flyer that links people to
@jamiekalven
's latest story in
@theintercept
and
@ACREcampaigns
's 4/19 event.
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Jamie Kalven has filed a lawsuit against CPD for withholding investigation records on the killing of Laquan McDonald
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The jury has convicted Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the shooting of Laquan McDonald.
We will share
@jamiekalven
’s interviews & analysis as they become available.
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The history section of the new Chicago Police Torture Archive include writing from organizers, journalists, and attorneys, including
@mazztopia
,
@JoeyMogul
, & John Conroy of
@Chicago_Reader
, who were centrally involved in the four-decades long struggle.
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In a new article in
@theintercept
, Jamie Kalven writes of the troubling history of racism within the Chicago Police Department through one infamous officer in particular: Raymond Piwnicki, a Chicago Police Sergeant who has been on the force for 25 years.
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JOIN US! Beneath the Surface investigates gender-based violence at the hands of Chicago Police. if you’re a black woman or non-binary person, we want to give you the first look at what we’re learning.
🕵🏽♀️ join director of data
@trinattrill
on 10/5 or 10/7
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The site includes over 35 profiles of survivors, along with digitized documents of the trials, interrogations, evidence, and other court proceedings.
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urgent message from
@jamiekalven
: Chicago City Council, DO NOT APPROVE the Green v Chicago settlement this week.
the $500k settlement would allow the City to buy its way out of releasing 175,000 police misconduct stories.
🗣 RT to signal boost 🙏🏽
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Today we’re convening with
@witnessorg
, bringing together police data specialists from across the country to talk about emerging legal strategies & data science ethics. Thanks
@macfound
for the opportunity. Stay tuned for our report, for you.
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🚨🗣URGENT: do not let the City of Chicago buy its way out of transparency this week.
🙏🏽, the team behind
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Vote for
@trinattrill
, director of our Beneath the Surface project, which investigates gender violence at the hands of police, to speak on a
#SXSW
panel with
@PJMFnd
!
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After the
#HarithAugustus
shooting, CPD claimed they released all footage within 24 hours. We now know that the dashcam video of Officer Halley firing at Augustus was not among them.
The new footage is available here, beginning at the 5:50 mark.
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One of the brightest spots of 2020 for us is to have
@trinattrill
re-join us as Director of Data. We're proud of you, and grateful for your commitment to make police data analysis more accessible & meaningful to those it most impacts. Welcome home.
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Beneath the Surface, our ongoing inquiry into gender-based violence by police, has recently completed a data science investigation with our partners at
@hrdag
and over 200 volunteers. Below, a conversation about the project between
@mairaka
and
@trinattrill
🧵
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Can a man whose career embodies Chicago Police Department's failure to investigate officers’ use of force transform the department?
The full story on Eddie Johnson, Glenn Evans, and the notorious 6th District, out now
@theintercept
#ChicagoPoliceFiles
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You Didn't See Nothin is a
@TIME
,
@vulture
,
@lifehacker
, and
@ApplePodcasts
best podcast of 2023. It has garnered awards from
@ThirdCoastFest
,
@BlackPodAwards
,
@signalawards
, and is a finalist for the
@IDAorg
Best Multi-Part Audio Documentary or Series category.
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today at 5:30, we'll partner w
@city_bureau
to listen to attendees of the We Walk for Her March outside Dyett HS abt their concerns re: missing persons cases in Chicago, and government neglect of missing Black girls. come explore data w
@trinattrill
& talk with
@invinst_bts
team!
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We're sharing our notes from the
#Data4BlackLives
conference
@medialab
. Read them, and feel free to comment or tweet us with your edits and suggestions!
The conference organizers are live-streaming here, too:
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Thank you Bill Healy (
@chicagoan
) for all your work on the
@SomebodyPod
Teaching Guide, a detailed, 10-lesson curriculum for educators and parents to teach the podcast to high school students. Access the guide for free:
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2. Lightfoot's proposed ordinance does not make public any complaint files pre-
@ChicagoCOPA
(est. 2016). The public needs access to complaints made to IPRA and OPS, its predecessors.
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The police data section, , connects the history of Burge accomplices within the Chicago Police Department to allegations of police misconduct beyond the torture cases.
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NEW:
@farrahsoa
&
@samstecklow
find that former Deputy Sean Grayson, now charged w/ murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, was discharged from the U.S. Army for serious misconduct — & still hired at six police departments in Central IL. Story:
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NEW teaching tool to the Chicago Police Torture Archive, via
@chitorture
: video supplements for the Reparations curriculum, featuring activists, teachers, and survivors from the torture justice movement.
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We are excited to offer two 4-week reading groups for folks to intentionally dive deeper into and discuss together on reporting on Chicago’s missing persons crisis with reporters
@trinattrill
&
@sarahanneconway
(
@city_bureau
).
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🥳 Congratulations to
@shapearl
& the
@SomebodyPod
team for winning the
@ThirdCoastFest
award for Best Serialized Story! So proud.
Next, we’re thrilled to announce the winner in the Best Serialized Story category: the podcast Somebody, narrated by Shapearl Wells and produced by
@FlowersAlison
&
@BillHealy13
for
@InvisibleInst
, Topic Studios,
@theintercept
and
@iHeartRadio
, w/
@TenderfootTV
#ThirdPlace20
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the past 6 months,
@trinattrill
has led Beneath the Surface, a collaboration w
@hrdag
+ ~300 volunteers, to read & analyze thousands of police complaint for instances of gender-based violence.
join us 10/26 or 10/30 to discuss patterns buried in the testimonies. RSVP required.
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new from
@jamiekalven
: Lightfoot's transparency ordinance is worse than nothing. "Rather than building upon the work of the OIG and its civil society partners (), the City has dismantled it."
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Stay tuned for a live map of paper drops. First stops? Tomorrow, 61st St Farmers Market + Division St Farmers Market
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As part of the
@chicagobiennial
, you can view a six-video installation of our investigation with
@ForensicArchi
at the
@expstation
.
(enter via
@BuildCoffee
, thurs & fri 12-5pm, sat 10-3pm)
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Ronald Kitchen, his daughter,
@thai_jones
, and
@jamiekalven
discuss the historic legacy of torture in Chicago Police. “My Midnight Years” details Kitchen’s experience at the hands of Jon Burge & crew, and on Death Row.
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In a decade as a senior CPD supervisor, Eddie Johnson cost Chicago $13 million in misconduct payments.
6th District tactical officers under Johnson’s command cost the department 40x the average for all other CPD officers bc of misconduct lawsuits (tracked by
@ChicagoReporter
)
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At the cultural center, the main hub for the
@chicagobiennial
, we have chosen to not display scenes of police violence against a black man in the context of an exhibition.
In its place is an essay from
@jamiekalven
about the necessity of looking & the difficulty of showing.
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👉🏽 &
@CPDPbot
At a protest in Chicago, protestors are identifying police officers present and using a database to identify and read out how many complaints have been filed against them.
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Many thx to
@knightfdn
for a $400K
#newschallenge
award to develop the Citizens Police Data Project!
#Chicago
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We're thrilled to contribute to the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019 in partnership with
@ForensicArchi
. Stay tuned for more.
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Chicagoan Morgan Farley was last seen by her father on April 2nd. As
@capitalbnews
reports, Morgan's family sought help from the Chicago police in Morgan's case, yet progress & communication by police has been slow.
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