Today, Cook County Judge Erica L. Reddick granted Certificates of Innocence for five victims of disgraced former CPD Sgt. Ronald Watts: George Almond, Darnell Howard, Darnell Harris, Maurice Harris, and Willie Roberson. Photo by Teddy Gonzales. #ronaldwatts #cpd #chicago

NEW details in the Chicago Police killing of Anthony Alvarez, 22. Upon collapsing, Alvarez asks the officer “Why are you shooting me?” Video COPA will be released soon. Read more by Jamie Kalven & Madison Muller in The Intercept & South Side Weekly.

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“Why are you shooting me?” The family of Anthony Alvarez is waiting for answers interc.pt/3dX5dGf by Jamie Kalven, Madison Muller

After the police killing of Adam Toledo in Chicago, the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system deserves serious scrutiny. interc.pt/3mJa7ZV by Jamie Kalven

After the police killing of 13 year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago, the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system that brought police to him deserves serious scrutiny.

Jamie Kalven's latest investigation on this problematic tech reform, out now The Intercept:

theintercept.com/2021/04/13/chi…

'Democracy is once again in the streets.' -Jamie Kalven - mailchi.mp/invisibleinsti…

Studs Terkel Discussing the book 'A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America,' with the editor Jamie Kalven : part 1: Jamie Kalven Invisible Institute studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/discu…

Videos of Harith Augustus killing were mislabeled and lost interc.pt/2nhEZ9e by Jamie Kalven

Churn of investigators at #Chicago agency that probes police shootings contributes to lapses in this high-profile investigation, Jamie Kalven reports. More than 40 employees have left COPA since Jan. 1, 2018, most of them since Sydney Roberts took over. theintercept.com/2019/09/27/chi…

Our director eyal weizman and Jamie Kalven of Invisible Institute unpacked how #ChicagoPD controlled the narrative after the killing over on The Intercept. Read it here: theintercept.com/2019/09/19/har…

At the cultural center, the main hub for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, we have chosen to not display scenes of police violence against a black man in the context of an exhibition.

In its place is an essay from Jamie Kalven about the necessity of looking & the difficulty of showing.

Chicago Police lied by claiming all #HarithAugustus footage had been released. The only available defense against this charge would be a claim of gross incompetence.

New from Jamie Kalven & eyal weizman in The Intercept:

theintercept.com/2019/09/19/har…

As part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, you can view a six-video installation of our investigation with Forensic Architecture at the @expstation.

(enter via Build Coffee, thurs & fri 12-5pm, sat 10-3pm)

After the #HarithAugustus shooting, CPD claimed they released all footage within 24 hours. We now know that the dashcam video of Officer Halley firing at Augustus was not among them.

The new footage is available here, beginning at the 5:50 mark.

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NEW: Chicago Police covered up dash-cam footage in #HarithAugustus case.

Newly released video, withheld by CPD for over a year, and our investigation w Forensic Architecture shows that the fatal encounter was caused by aggressive policing rather than any criminal conduct by Augustus.

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Additionally, what kind of union:
- opposes policies that would protect the lives and safety of its own members (e.g. foot chase policy)?
- does not publicly defend members like Shannon Spalding and Daniel Echavarria when they were targeted by management?

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One former COPA supervisor described “a crisis of confidence in leadership.” The most telling expression of that crisis is that roughly 30 staff members, most of them investigators, have left the agency during the last year.
-Jamie Kalven

theintercept.com/2019/05/29/chi…

Chicago’s police accountability office fails a major test interc.pt/2EGfJQ2 by Jamie Kalven

Although useful as shorthand, the word “transparency” is bland and antiseptic. It doesn’t sharply evoke what is at stake: dismantling the machinery by which government exercises information control as an instrument of power.

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