Chicago Reader • 30th March 2022 New body-cam images show CPD attack on Miracle Boyd Officer Nicholas Jovanovich now faces firing as a result of the 2020 incident, in which he knocked out the activist’s tooth and seized her cell phone.
Chicago Reader • 7th February 2022 Chicago police pistol-whipped suspect in brutal 2017 arrest Last year, COPA recommended three of the officers involved be fired. They still haven’t been.
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.
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.
Scientific American • 24th March 2021 Hunger Strikers Seeking Environmental Justice Win Air-Pollution Delay A hunger strike in Chicago has slowed the planned move of a metal scrapper to a working-class 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.
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
Smithsonian Magazine • 12th August 2020 What Scientists Know About Airborne Transmission of the New Coronavirus Aerosol experts, from engineers to doctors, weigh in on the ability of tiny droplets to transmit the virus that causes COVID-19
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 • 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
Scientific American • 7th August 2019 Brazil's Sacked Space Director Speaks Out on Attacks on Science Ricardo Galvão discusses his dismissal after Amazon deforestation data rankled President Bolsonaro
Scientific American • 26th April 2019 Is the EPA Stifling Science on Chemical Toxicity Reports? Critics say changes to the agency’s review process will harm public health
