The TRiiBE • 26th March 2023 Paul Vallas’s trail of school privatization The mayoral candidate has opened dozens of charter schools around the country, and is opening a militarized charter in Arkansas even while campaigning in Chicago.
The TRiiBE • 2nd March 2023 ECPS coalition wins a wide majority of Chicago’s new Police District Council seats Candidates aligned with the coalition won majorities in 16 out of 22 districts.
The TRiiBE • 8th February 2023 ‘Get down, boy!’ Paul Vallas’s son is one of 3 police officers who fatally shot a man in Texas The Chicago mayoral candidate has criticized foot-pursuit reforms and is endorsed by the FOP
27th January 2023 Superintendent Brown resisted CCPSA goal-setting According to commissioners, Brown claimed the federal consent decree limited their ability to set goals for him as mandated in the ECPS ordinance.
Chicago Reader • 26th January 2023 Police brutality survivors and former cops are running in Chicago’s police district council races The councils are the first to be elected to police oversight bodies.
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
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
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.
