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During the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd, calls for police reform echoed across the country, including around the issue of cops in schools. Activists called for change in the use of school police, also known as School Resource Officers (SROs). Concerns about the school-to-prison pipeline and its racially disparate impact on […]

A 20-year analysis of agenda items from Chicago's Committee on Public Safety reveals a lack of oversight and regulation of police.

CJP submitted our request to the Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) to obtain a copy of the letter that 38th ward Alderperson Nicholas Sposato sent to the OIG. This letter is in response to public comments made by Civilian Office of Police Accountability Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten related to Chicago Police Department shooting of […]

CJP Nation is researching how Chicago universities respond to sexual violence on campus. As part of their research they are reviewing the mandated reports the universities have to file both to the federal and state governments. As part of this work the group learned that each university in Illinois has to file a report with […]

On today’s show, we discuss the connection between racialized policing in the US and the efforts by the right-wing to erase slavery from America’s history. We discuss this with Joseph Flynn, the Executive Director for Equity and Inclusion in the Division of Academic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and an associate professor of curriculum and instruction […]

On today’s episode, we feature an interview with Alexandra Block from the ACLU of Illinois about their lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department’s highly questionable traffic stop practices. The ACLU alleges that the CPD pulls people over exclusively to search them and their care for drugs and guns. According to their statistics, the CPD’s rate […]