South Side Weekly • 24th November 2021 CPD Audits Show Half of Officers Have Complaints At least one audit was prepared in response to activists' grassroots efforts.
South Side Weekly • 10th November 2021 Cop in Lakefront Attack Has a History of Similar Incidents Officer Bruce Dyker already had two dozen complaints before he attacked a woman in August.
Scientific American • 3rd November 2021 Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase More oversight of dealers and investment in impoverished communities are key to reducing violence, say experts.
The Trace • 27th August 2021 In Chicago, Controversy Mounts Over the Use of Gunshot Detection Sensors
South Side Weekly • 19th August 2021 Who’s Supervising Overtime at CPD? Last year Superintendent David Brown ordered deputy chiefs to approve all overtime. Internal records don’t show that it’s happening.
South Side Weekly • 3rd August 2021 Cop Who Attacked Miracle Boyd Was Investigated in 2009 for Beating Teen Officer Nicholas Jovanovich beat a Black teenager for talking back eleven years ago
South Side Weekly • 7th July 2021 Surveilling Dissent How CPD used the City’s gun-violence prevention center to monitor demonstrations last summer.
South Side Weekly • 23rd June 2021 Chicago Police Spied on Protesters Why did CPD External Relations approve snooping on a demonstration last summer?
South Side Weekly • 23rd June 2021 The High Price of the City’s Shows of Force Idling trucks ahead of protests in April drained half of Streets and Sanitation’s overtime budget for the year.
South Side Weekly • 6th May 2021 Lightfoot Quietly Lobbied for Qualified Immunity A report meant to make the mayor’s case for qualified immunity showed ten years of CPD lawsuits that cost Chicago taxpayers more than half a billion dollars.
Scientific American • 24th March 2021 Hunger Strikers Seeking Environmental Justice Win Air-Pollution Delay A hunger strike in Chicago and concerns raised by city and state politicians has slowed the planned move of a metal scrapper to a working-class, predominantly Latino community
Scientific American • 1st March 2021 Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests A study also found body-camera use and community policing increased in places with the most active movements.
South Side Weekly • 17th February 2021 Chicago Police Overtime Broke Department Records in 2020 About 6% of cops generated 20% of last year's overtime pay
Scientific American • 11th February 2021 White Chicago Cops Use Force More Often than Black Officers New study of the city's policing also shows differences between male and female cops
South Side Weekly • 2nd September 2020 Mohawk Johnson on Hip-Hop, Activism, and Skating "I think what people need to understand is that regardless of how you feel about the methodology, these people are in pain. Art creates an avenue for that pain"
Scientific American • 8th July 2020 Vaccinations Have Sharply Declined Nationwide during the COVID-19 Pandemic Rates of childhood immunization have fallen across the U.S., raising the risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks
Scientific American • 20th March 2020 How to Triage Patients Who Need Intensive Care A new computer model analyzes when to admit people to intensive care units—and when to move them out—which could help doctors handle the coronavirus surge
South Side Weekly • 4th February 2020 What Happened to the Mental Health Task Force? Public Health Commissioner Allison Arwady has proposed a new task force to “coordinate” mental health efforts
Scientific American • 17th December 2019 Ancient "Chewing Gum" Reveals a 5,700-Year-Old Microbiome Archaeologists reconstructed a Neolithic woman’s complete genome and oral microbiome from a piece of birch tar she chewed
