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Even though having police in Chicago’s schools is proven to harm Black, Brown & students with special needs & costs $33M per year, the Mayor refuses to even consider it.
It’s now time to remind everyone what the Chicago Police Department has done. #DefundCPD
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It’s now time to remind everyone what the Chicago Police Department has done. #DefundCPD
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“The Justice Department found that CPD’s accountability system is broken, that officers...are rarely disciplined, officer training is woefully inadequate, and the use of excessive force disproportionately affects people of color in the poorest...” https://www.chicagoreporter.com/justice-department-report-on-chicago-police-annotated/
“Police “disappeared” more than 7,000 people at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands
“This problem is sometimes referred to as the Thin Blue Line. Other times it’s referred to as the code of silence. It is the tendency to ignore, deny, or in some cases cover up the bad actions of a colleague or colleagues.” https://theintercept.com/series/code-of-silence/
“Add up 10 years of lawsuit payouts involving the Police Department, and it amounts to $524,055,580. Last year alone, the figure was $97,801,760.” https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/09/04/police-lawsuit-settlement-cost/
“Chicago's history of torture is centered on police commander Jon Burge, who was assigned to Chicago's south side in 1972. Between then and 1981, Burge and his men used torture to elicit confessions from more than 110 African-Americans...” https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/chicago-police-torture-jon-burge/383839/
“...from March 2011 to September 2015, more than 28,500 citizen complaints of misconduct were filed against Chicago police officers, but less than 2 percent resulted in discipline.” https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160320/NEWS07/160319758/how-chicago-racked-up-a-662-million-police-misconduct-bill
“Officers accused of abuses are leading leading Chicago police’s ‘implicit bias’ training program.” https://theintercept.com/2019/02/03/chicago-police-procedural-justice-training-complaints-lawsuits-racism/?comments=1
“...police "have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color" and have alienated blacks and Hispanics with the use of force and a longstanding code of silence.” https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/us/chicago-police-shooting-protest/index.html
“Between 2009 and 2013, more than 75 percent of police shooting victims in Chicago were black, even though African-Americans in Chicago are only about 33 percent of the population. In the first half of 2014, 23 of 27 police shooting victims were black.” https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/382843/
“...data from the Chicago police department shows that misconduct spreads from officer to officer like an infectious disease. And the same behavior that leads cops to violate the rules often predicts whether they will participate in a shooting.” https://theintercept.com/2018/08/16/chicago-police-misconduct-social-network/
“Here are key moments in the police department's history that contributed to a reputation for brutality toward minorities:” https://www.wbez.org/stories/key-moments-in-chicago-police-forces-reputation-for-brutality/151154e8-7b70-4f49-a597-18e7c028e3f1
“Misconduct by police assigned to schools (SROs) has been costly to the taxpayers. Between 2012 and 2016, police officers assigned to the Chicago Public Schools accumulated over $2 million in misconduct settlements for activities on & off school grounds.”
https://www.povertylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/handcuffs-in-hallways-final.pdf
https://www.povertylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/handcuffs-in-hallways-final.pdf
“These Black-led organizing groups are supporting their communities through the coronavirus crisis while leading a nationwide movement against police brutality.”
@BLMChi @GKMC18 @projectnia @LetUsBreathe773 @AssataDaughters @CAARPRNow @byp100 @chitorture https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/06/05/10-black-led-chicago-groups-you-can-donate-to-now-to-make-a-difference-in-black-lives/
@BLMChi @GKMC18 @projectnia @LetUsBreathe773 @AssataDaughters @CAARPRNow @byp100 @chitorture https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/06/05/10-black-led-chicago-groups-you-can-donate-to-now-to-make-a-difference-in-black-lives/
“Chicago is spending more on policing per person than at any time in the last half-century despite a persistent drop in crime over the last two decades, while the vast majority of murders remain unsolved.” https://www.injusticewatch.org/data/2020/chicago-has-nearly-tripled-per-capita-police-spending-since-1964-data-show/
“Over the last 15 years, fees and costs for private attorneys in civil rights cases totaled $213 million.” https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/ct-met-chicago-legal-spending-20190912-sky5euto4jbcdenjfi4datpnki-story.html?outputType=amp
“...the overarching demand of the DOJ report, and community activists working to end police violence for years, has been for meaningful police accountability, something that they say pouring $95 million into a new training center fails to address.” https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/join-chicago-community-groups-in-their-fight-against-a-95-million-police-training-academy/
“...a number of provisions, including...officers to avoid making statements about shootings for at least 24 hours & another that requires internal investigators to notify officers of complainants' names before the officers are even questioned.” https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-police-contracts-fop-20160520-story.html
“Chicago spent more than $113 million on police misconduct lawsuits in 2018.” https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-spent-more-than-113-million-on-police-misconduct-lawsuits-in-2018/?amp
“Just a few months ago, the Chicago police department was regarded as America’s laboratory of police science.” https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/04/19/the-chicago-model-of-policing-hasn-t-saved-chicago
“...2014, police officers used a Taser on Franklin three times after they had handcuffed him for stealing a bottle of liquor...he hit his head on a pole and fell into a coma from which he never awoke. Franklin was only twenty-three years old.” https://southsideweekly.com/tracing-roots-torture-the-torture-letters/
“Chicago Police Officer Robert Rialmo accidentally fatally shot her mother, Bettie Jones.” https://www.wbez.org/stories/daughter-describes-bettie-jones-final-moments-after-accidental-shooting-by-chicago-cop/4b900a49-c324-406a-a7de-1ae551502966
“Dorothy Holmes called for the officer who killed her son to be brought to justice. Ronald "Ronnie" Johnson, 25, was shot and killed by a Chicago officer on Oct. 12, 2014” https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151201/washington-park/video-of-police-killing-ronnie-johnson-should-be-released-slain-mans-mom.amp
Joshua Beal, who was in Chicago for a funeral, was killed Saturday by a Chicago police sergeant. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-mount-greendwoods-reaction-to-joshua-beals-death_b_581f9e39e4b0334571e09dee
“A shocking social media video showing a Chicago Police Department (CPD) squad car rolling over and injuring a 16-year-old Black girl on 111th and Michigan...” https://thetriibe.com/2020/06/video-shows-chicago-police-squad-car-rolling-over-16-year-old-black-girl-in-roseland-during-uprisings/
“A federal jury Tuesday awarded $25 million to a suburban man who sued the City of Chicago after spending 16 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.” https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/01/24/jury-awards-25m-to-man-for-wrongful-murder-conviction/
“Frugoli’s blood alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit, and his disciplinary record shows it wasn’t the first time he got behind the wheel after drinking.” https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/02/28/joseph-frugoli-settlement/
Chicago police Sgt. John Poulos was found liable in a federal civil case for the shooting death on an Englewood teen in 2016. The family of Kajaun Raye was awarded $1 million in damages. https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/03/03/kajuan-raye-john-poulos-verdict-shooting/
“Servin in 2015 was acquitted of second degree murder for fatally shooting Rekia Boyd as she stood with a group of friends in an alley near Servin’s home in Douglas Park on March 21, 2012.”
https://chicagocrusader.com/no-expungement-for-cop-who-killed-rekia-boyd/
https://chicagocrusader.com/no-expungement-for-cop-who-killed-rekia-boyd/
“Paul O’Neal was killed by one gunshot wound to the back, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed.” https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/03/19/police-board-orders-2-officers-fired-in-2016-shooting-that-killed-paul-oneal/
“37-year-old African-American barber, was shot to death by police patrolling 71st Street in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago on July 14, 2018.” https://theintercept.com/2019/09/19/harith-augustus-shooting-chicago-police/?comments=1
“Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s career in the Chicago Police Department raises troubling questions about the future of police reform in the city.” https://theintercept.com/2018/11/14/chicago-police-department-superintendent-eddie-johnson/
“Chicago police raided Hampton’s apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just 21 years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid.” https://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/4/watch_the_assassination_of_fred_hampton
“Less than 24 hours after a 16-year-old boy was killed by Chicago police, hundreds of protesters gathered in the Homan Square neighborhood to protest about the latest police killing in the city.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/13/chicago-protest-homan-square-police-killing
“The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police had sued, contending that such records should be eliminated after five years under the city’s police collective bargaining agreement.” https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-scoil-chicago-police-records-destruction-20200618-vmmlwxcmovgz7jxubgcdwfuqhe-story.html?outputType=amp
“The Chicago Police Department is no stranger to police murder of Black people, racism, or corruption; it is the model for corruption and racist policing in the U.S., making national and international headlines for its historic crimes against humanity...” https://theintercept.com/2020/06/14/chicago-police-black-lives-matter-protesters/
“Fault Lines explores the lesser-known stories of black women who have fallen victim to police violence in the US, specifically Chicago” https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2016/10/lives-black-women-161014145941598.html
“Chicago police shooting an unarmed short-order cook at the foot of a subway escalator and then again with his back turned to officers after they tried to stop him for violating a city ordinance by walking from one train car to another.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-police-extended-videos-officer-shooting-unarmed-subway-rider-ariel-roman/
“Demilitarize the police, disarm the police. We need to come up with community solutions for transformative justice." https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/police-abolitionist-movement-alternatives-cops-chicago/Content?oid=23289710
“We should redirect the billions that now go to police departments toward providing health care, housing, education and good jobs. If we did this, there would be less need for the police in the first place.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
https://twitter.com/d_stieber/status/1266710205754216451?s=21 https://twitter.com/D_Stieber/status/1266710205754216451
“A Chicago detective who led one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo Bay was responsible for implementing a disturbingly similar, years-long regime of brutality to elicit murder confessions from minority Americans.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/18/guantanamo-torture-chicago-police-brutality
