On October 29, 2026, we filed updated requests with all three offices. Because DCRA was split up in 2022, our request now ...

This week both the Tribune and Sun Times ran editorials urging Governor Quinn to sign Illinois Senate Bill 189. This bill is the new version ...

There is nothing more fundamental in policing than making sure people who hold white supremacist ideology never wear a badge, and that those already in the profession are removed. In the early 2020s, ...

The Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) response to the George Floyd protests turn out to be chaotic, unorganized, and under prepared. This comes from a review of the CPD”s response from a report ...

Currently, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) are arguing that Chicago is significantly understaffed compared to other cities. The results of the study we conducted fly in the face of that argument.

The contact tracing that is all over the news since the start of the pandemic can arguably have an impact on gun violence in Chicago.

The “Our Kids Becoming Extinct” headline I am sure was great for attracting clicks but it is a massive dis-service to the very communities the kids discussed in the headline are coming from. This ...

There is a presumption by the citizens of Chicago that when the Chicago Police arrest an individual and the complainant follows through with their role that charges, prosecution, and hopefully ...

Disaggregating the various functions of modern police agencies provides us the basis to start to reimagine how we might go about building better systems of ...

The appointment of a second special prosecutor to look in to the actions of members of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO) demonstrates the ...

Join Steve Edwards, from the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, as he moderates a discussion among journalists, advocates for survivors, and criminal ...