Jim Daley

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

Scientific American • 20th November 2020

New Scientist-Candidates for U.S. Congress Fared Worse Than Expected in 2020

Even with big health issues in the headlines, most of these challengers lost, though advocates hope the races gave science a higher policy profile

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"

South Side Weekly • 6th August 2020

What Happened July 17?

A document of the conflict in Grant Park

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

In These Times • 3rd October 2019

Trump Admin Scrubs Websites of Info on Services for Migrant Children

Under Trump, government websites are also more frequently using derogatory language to refer to migrant children.

Scientific American • 19th September 2019

Silent Skies: Billions of North American Birds Have Vanished

Though waterfowl and raptor populations have made recoveries, bird populations have declined since 1970 across nearly all habitats