police brutality

San Francisco Debuts Nation’s First Facial Recognition Regulation with Ban on Government Use

An article last week from Wired reported that San Francisco has passed the nation’s first ban on government use of facial recognition technology. Enacted by the city’s Board of Supervisors, the measure was adopted as part of a suite of … Read more »

CPD’s Impending Consent Decree Holds Promise to Improve Safety for Over-Policed Disabled Population

According to a new article from the Chicago Reporter, the current draft of the consent decree imposed by federal court on the Chicago Police Department will include provisions intended to specifically address the safety of individuals with disabilities. The … Read more »

Trump’s Law Enforcement Address is Only the Latest Encouragement in a Pattern of Normalizing Police Brutality

In a piece for Portside, columnist Jelani Cobb underscored the dangerous pattern of the Trump administration, spearheaded by President Trump himself, to normalize abusive policing practices. While Trump’s speech last week to police officers in Long Island grabbed headlines … Read more »

City of Chicago Reaches Historic Agreement to Compensate Victims of Police Torture

The Guardian has the scoop on this week’s watershed agreement that will see $5.5M paid to surviving victims of police brutality during Jon Burge’s tyrannical regime in the 1970s and 1980s.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/06/chicago-police-torture-victims-deal