This Isn’t the First Time Chicago’s Been Used as a Laboratory for Policing
Ilā Ravichandran says the current anti-immigrant policing in Chicago builds on attacks on Black Lives Matter protesters.| Articles – Truthout
Ilā Ravichandran says the current anti-immigrant policing in Chicago builds on attacks on Black Lives Matter protesters.| Articles – Truthout
After Rivera was killed in June by Officer Carlos Baker, officials told the Illinois Department of Labor she’d been gunned down by a barricaded suspect. The police still haven’t corrected that.| Illinois Answers Project
Officer Carlos Baker told police he was harassed at a Wicker Park bar by two women — an off-duty cop and his girlfriend’s mother, who he said attacked him and referred to him as "a murderer."| Illinois Answers Project
Officer Carlos Baker, the Chicago cop who fatally shot his partner Krystal Rivera while pursuing a suspect, was stripped of his police powers on Friday but not for the shooting. […]| Illinois Answers Project
Carlos Baker, the Chicago police officer who shot and killed his partner Krystal Rivera allegedly attacked a female officer at a bar in Wicker Park| Illinois Answers Project
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has decided to scrap her office's do-not-call and disclosure lists, which call out problematic and dishonest cops, and we have serious concerns. Do-not-call and disclosure lists include the names of discredited officers who can't be trusted to testify truthfully. This decision increases the likelihood of constitutional violations and wrongful convictions—especially in Chicago, where the issue of dishonest police in court ("testilying") i...| Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Our new report, The Impact of the Pretrial Fairness Act on Electronic Monitoring in Cook County, examines the impacts of the legislative reforms on Cook County’s pretrial electronic monitoring system. The post RULING—Appellate Court in Police Arbitration Case Upholds Public Interest in Open and Transparent Police Oversight appeared first on Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts.| Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
The handgun was stolen from a room full of cops and ended up being used in crimes including the shooting of Twanda Willingham, who's suing.| Illinois Answers Project
