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The Culture Jul 02 2020

Understanding police and prison abolition: activists say reform is not enough

In speaking with numerous abolitionists doing work in Chicago, the overarching idea is that society is endangered, not protected, by the current system.

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The Culture Jun 25 2020

After a failed CPS Board vote to remove CPD from schools, youth activists vow to keep fighting

“What’s interesting is that all the women on the board voted yes on the motion while all the men voted no,” said Alycia Kamil, a CPS alum.

The Culture Jul 02 2020

After being rolled over by a CPD SUV, 15-year-old Astarte Washington fears the police and doesn’t want to leave her house, family says

Astarte Washington grew up trusting and admiring the police. Now, her mother says, she wants “nothing to do with them.”

The Culture Jun 30 2020

COMMENTARY | 1968: When the whole world was watching, the Chicago Police rioted

Veteran Chicago journalist Monroe Anderson reflects on today’s anti-police uprisings and the 1968 anti-war uprisings, and the police who battered and bruised the press and the protestors during both.