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Stephanie Kollmann

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Policy Director, Children and Family Justice Center, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Opinions mine.

Chicago, IL

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@SLKollmann

Stephanie Kollmann

5 months

Judges are supposed to be neutral. Judges do not hire and fire prosecutors or criminal defense lawyers for wealthy executives. And judges shouldn't hire/fire defense lawyers for poor people, either. It's a conflict of interest. The FAIR Act fixes that.

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Stephanie Kollmann: Illinois legislators should create a statewide system for public defense

Conditions in Illinois courts have resulted in people being denied their rights. A new bill would create a better public defense system.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

The time of year when I think about this

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Maybe Chicago should not have given covid money to the police.

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if you live in dc and you don’t know about the free at-home covid tests available at over 25 public libraries and rec centers, now you do💥

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Here's an explainer article from 2019

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The incredibly frustrating reason there’s no Lyme disease vaccine

Your dog can get vaccinated for Lyme. You cannot.

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Chicago has more police per resident than any of the other 10 largest cities. Cutting CPD by half would still leave us with *more* police per capita than Los Angeles.

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1 year

Shotspotter stock dropped 22% yesterday. 📉 Yes, it was because of the election. +

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Chicago's downtown business district has 45,000 hotel rooms, each with its own shower, sink, and toilet.

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Cook County Sheriff's Office

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Sheriff Dart has prepared barracks, previously used for an inmate bootcamp program, to be used as a hospital and/or isolation housing for detainees with COVID-19. The barracks have a capacity of at least 500 beds and are located away from Cook County Jail.

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Chicago went from FORTY-ONE to THIRTY-NINE shootings following this "deployment" of two "units" which may -- or may not -- have prevented ONE shooting each

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The Associated Press

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Chicago Police are reporting a drop in homicides and shootings. The better numbers follow the city's deployment of two units designed to combat gun violence and ensure protests remain peaceful.

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To date, covid has killed more than 5 times as many Chicagoans as bullets have in 2022 - and so far the mayor's response is to 1) refuse to reinstitute mask requirements as we approach official CDC high covid risk and 2) take 8 hours/day of liberty away from 17yo

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Shannon Watts

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NEW: A Nashville Walgreens employee pulled out a pistol and shot a pregnant woman he says he thought was shoplifting. Doctors performed an emergency c-section; both the woman and her baby are in critical condition. The employee is claiming self-defense.

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2 years

The postmortem on this race must include a full airing-out of the Machine/MAGA/Moms4Liberty/billionaire alliance that backed this "moderate" (LOL) candidate, as well as the reporting that covered him as something other than a career austerity gospel itinerant preacher

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Yesterday, CPD shot and killed a 24yo during a foot pursuit. When asked why CPD chased him, the answers are: -People were standing around -He was leaning into a car -He ran -Officers were on a (failed) "de-escalation mission"

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In 2022, the Chicago Police Department arrested more Black youth for reckless or disorderly conduct than white youth for ALL offenses, combined. Tell me what "more police" will do to the ability of Black youth to exist in public.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Perhaps you have seen this pic of Memphis PD officer Preston Hemphill, who tased Tyre Nichols and said, "I hope they stomp his ass." I'd like to point out, specifically to Chicago: that's a CIT (crisis intervention training) certificate. Can we just...stop pretending?

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

To be clear, today's IL Supreme Ct decision means that 58 elected IL state's attorneys + sheriffs were completely wrong about the constitutional rights of Illinoisans, a fact we would all do well to bear in mind when considering whether to treat them as authorities on the matter.

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Stephanie Kollmann

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If you are, justifiably, outraged that the Emory professor who asked a question about police activity was violently thrown to the ground and then herself charged with battery, and would like to learn more about this phenomenon, I recommend 👇

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Chicago police use 'cover charges' to justify excessive force - The Chicago Reporter

Our analysis shows a troubling pattern of officers charging alleged victims of police misconduct with aggravated battery or assault to a police officer or resisting arrest.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Welcome new followers! Fair warning, I am a lawyer and most of my content is not about health education, but about one of the most costly, injurious, and science-denying enterprises in US society: what we decide to call a crime; how we let the gov't respond; who that hurts.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

My goodness. I muted this post early yesterday and a friend just clued me in to the reach of my quick pre-hike gripe. For those who want to learn more about the current state of vax development:

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

It's been 7.5 years since Laquan McDonald was murdered by police. The cost of CPD has increased ~40% since then. Announced today: CPD has fully complied with 23 of 523 requirements of the federal consent decree.

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Stephanie Kollmann

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According to CPD data, the Chicago Police Department recorded NO arrest in: 70% of 2021 homicides 97% of 2021 non-fatal shootings but national @ABC credited CPD w/ shooting reductions, visiting surveillance hubs CPD has shown off to people all over the world for years like:

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Paul Vallas will be 70 this year and has never been elected to anything.

@dmihalopoulos

Dan Mihalopoulos

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Ald Sawyer - who had 0.43% of the vote in last week's election - says Chicagoans "don't need another mayor who needs job training"

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Regardless of results -- CONGRATULATIONS to @GKMC18 @ChicagoVotes and all of the orgs that worked so hard to get young voters to the polls. Your work is evident! May we be moving into a new era where Chicago's youth, young adults, and families are supported, not shamed.

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Stephanie Kollmann

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Deliberately putting teenagers in closer contact with CPD by making them go to the cop academy campus in order to visit a Boys & Girls Club is pretty much the antithesis of positive youth development as a concept.

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

If you poison one person it's a violent crime; if you poison 100 people it's a nonviolent crime; if you poison 10,000 people it's a lawsuit; if you poison 1 million people it's the market's invisible, inevitable hand A rough generalization, but fundamentally accurate

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

So far, the Johnson admin has: -paid ShotSpotter by accident -purposely budgeted to extend ShotSpotter -reduced police accountability in proposed FOP contract (via arbitration) -given FOP larger raises and bonuses than Lightfoot admin negotiated -proposed CPD budget increase +

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Why am I reading a sociologist telling the Sun-Times that protests against police brutality are responsible for a 2020 gun violence "spike" in Chicago? Patrick Sharkey has "no idea" why gun violence fell this year but can prove that petitioning the govt moves bullets? Really?

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Stephanie Kollmann

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Total theft/robbery/burglary-type offenses reported to CPD (inc. all armed robberies, carjackings, vehicle thefts, retail thefts) 2019: 80,102 2020: 57,877 2021: 55,202 Police/media framed parts of this as a "spike." Now, "retail RICO" and "predatory carjacking" bills. Why?

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

shoutout to the stellar diplomacy of the US Ambassador to Japan allowing some utter clown to come meet with the Japanese PM and defame Chicago, specifically and by name

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1 year

Reporters - tweeting about youth downtown - not interviewing youth downtown - not mentioning CPD killing on the W side should raise serious and sustained questions.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

Yesterday, CPD shot and killed a 24yo during a foot pursuit. When asked why CPD chased him, the answers are: -People were standing around -He was leaning into a car -He ran -Officers were on a (failed) "de-escalation mission"

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3 years

Chicago police have a 42-page plan to target young people downtown this weekend?!? Where is the 42-page plan for giving young people something to do this weekend?

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

Per Carl Sandburg: Abe Lincoln defended a woman accused of murdering her husband. The evidence was bad. The town was against her. She did not appear in court. The bailiff asked Lincoln if he told her to flee. He said she asked for water and he said the water in TN is delicious.

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So, the U of C Crime Lab, which spent years telling local politicians gun violence is higher than in LA/NYC bc we do not send enough people to prison on gun possession charges is now pointing to an "ecosystem of non-enforcement services" in those cities? Huh. Some Qs: +

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Protest during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1968 (Chicago Tribune photo)

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2 years

my jaw is hanging open

@equalityAlec

Alec Karakatsanis

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I wrote about how two Harvard professors accused me of trying to "censor" them when I showed their proposal to add 500,000 cops to arrest 7.8 million more people was riddled with dishonest errors. Then it got weirder. Students sent me the final exam question from Prof. Lewis.

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Stacey Abrams shares the advice she took from Rahm Emanuel on how to win

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

Shotspotter driving 40,000 dead-end CPD deployments during the study period cited above contributes to the perception that the department does not have enough officers.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Stop saying CPD has "staffing" problems when you mean "priority," "efficiency," or "management" [Note: I might update this chart since the Fall 2022 FBI report is likely out, but it is not misleadingly out-of-date. As of January 3, 2023, CPD has 434 officers per 100k residents]

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1 year

I guess if you get mad enough at teenagers for doing basic teenager things, you are less likely to notice that you live in a society where a) a 72yo b) with heart disease c) has to go to work and d) is told to physically restrain teens

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Very sad story. I am also curious how relevant the teen part is to the story when there isn’t information about the medical reasons for his passing and it says he was not attacked.

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Stephanie Kollmann

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CDC warns hospitals may start rationing care w/in 2 weeks. "Nursing homes have seen a steep rise in reported COVID-19...infections in nursing home residents [in the Midwest] have already topped rates seen at last year's peak."

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COVID and flu surge could strain hospitals as JN.1 variant grows, CDC warns

"COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising quickly," the CDC said, and the new variant JN.1 is making up an increasing share of cases.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Literally the job of the two political branches to make laws and the rules for implementing them

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SCOTUSblog

2 years

Roberts also defended the legitimacy of the Supreme Court amid evidence that public confidence in the court has plummeted since the Dobbs decision. "You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is," Roberts said, per AP's @colleenslevin .

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Stephanie Kollmann

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These photos always cheer me up

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She was killed 10 days later. He has not been disciplined.

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A woman told Milwaukee police an ex-boyfriend beat her. Experts say the officer's response was...

Security footage from Police District 3 vividly illustrates the uphill battle domestic abuse victims face when seeking help, experts said.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

Here is a writeup from last year about the studies and public testimony by @MacArthrJustice and @ChicagoOIG and pending lawsuits involving the company

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ShotSpotter is a Failure. What’s Next? - MacArthur Justice

One year ago, the MacArthur Justice Center (MJC) published a study on the dangerous inaccuracy of ShotSpotter, a surveillance system that purports to detect the sounds and location of gunfire.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

CPD parking dangerously so the mayor can buy donuts is not primarily a bicycle story. It is an example of how police break the law with impunity, including every traffic safety law, jeopardizing lives.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

I had to stop reading this when I hit the first quote from the officer. "It’s illegal for me to lie. I can’t go around lying to a little kid. Things like that, I could go to jail for that" All 3 of these sentences: lies.

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Transcript of the interrogation by Waukegan detectives that led to a 15-year-old’s false confession

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

I wonder what his former classmates from Lyons Township HS think of his white supremacy.

@RightWingWatch

Right Wing Watch

@RightWingWatch

2 years

Nick Fuentes says America must become an authoritarian Catholic nation where Jews have no power or influence: "I want this country to have Catholic media, Catholic Hollywood, Catholic government. I want this to be a Catholic occupied government, not a Jewish occupied government."

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Chicago: you *WILL NOT* be arrested or refused the ability to vote if you have convictions, are on probation/parole, have outstanding tickets/court fees/taxes, etc. EVERYONE you have seen in trouble for these was trying to vote in ANOTHER STATE. In IL, your rights are protected!

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Stephanie Kollmann

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Is it absurd? Yes. Eugenics? Yes. Was it published 3 years AFTER coauthor James Q. Wilson put out the first article pushing the "broken windows" theory that still plagues us today? Oh, yes.

@RottenInDenmark

Michael Hobbes

@RottenInDenmark

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1985 feels pretty late to be including examples of "criminal body types" in your sociology textbook

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The situation in IL is something to behold. After publicizing a victory lap on racial justice in the wake of the 2020 protests, lawmakers are scrambling to undo their reforms and pass a slate of new, last-minute punitive bills based on false understandings of crime/punishment.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

If you are using CPD's stats on massive increases in officers "shot or shot at" for your reporting or research, know that CPD significantly changed how this is tracked/calculated in 2020, following protests of police brutality. Per internal CPD correspondence, this data: +

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Stephanie Kollmann

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The median Chicago police officer is paid over 120k/year. Just something to consider re: the perks, access, discounts, and donated food solicited by armed government agents.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

It should NEVER have been up to small, independent/nonprofit newsrooms and devoted volunteers to uncover and explain Vallas' history.

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Stephanie Kollmann

10 months

Your govt would rather you deal with "rationed" health care than re-institute masking at medical facilities. It would rather shrug at nursing home deaths than stop them. It will not let you be inconvenienced by health precautions this holiday season. Just illness and loss.

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Stephanie Kollmann

6 years

Imagine dying of domestic violence and the headline reads "Police officer, gunman and 2 others dead"

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Stephanie Kollmann

10 months

OMG. The IDF is telling the US State Department to be less bloodthirsty and reckless in its comms about Hamas. If that is not rock bottom for Biden, what would it look like?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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I can’t believe I’m sharing ToI but apparently even IDF is troubled by US propaganda, which is really saying something: IDF appears to push back on 'irresponsible' US claim Hamas refusing to release raped hostages

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

The US spends a great deal on policing, but Chicago has many more police per capita than other large US cities. If Chicago had the US average number of police, CPD headcount would be under 6,600. If Supt. Brown aligned CPD headcount with Dallas PD, it would be 6,316.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

There are many issues with CPD here, as always, but today I'm thinking about academics and pundits who promote some platonic ideal of "targeted policing" in the same way one might launder war into "precision drone strikes"

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

Have you noticed how different the media coverage, much less policing, is regarding the weekly large gathering for the purpose of unlawful activity that happens to be white-yuppie-coded because I sure have. 👙🥽

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Q1: What is the remedy for a think tank doing something as profoundly destructive and politically salient as promoting a narrative that persists today (more felony convictions + more prison time = less violence)? Is there no responsibility to more explicitly correct the record? +

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Anyway, a reminder for those still invested in this supposed distinction

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

If you poison one person it's a violent crime; if you poison 100 people it's a nonviolent crime; if you poison 10,000 people it's a lawsuit; if you poison 1 million people it's the market's invisible, inevitable hand A rough generalization, but fundamentally accurate

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1 year

Chicago residents supplied 10% of this company's revenue last year. The CEO put out a statement saying he hopes to continue working with the Johnson Administration. +

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Exclusive: ShotSpotter CEO 'optimistic' Chicago mayor-elect Johnson will continue relationship By...

Exclusive: ShotSpotter CEO 'optimistic' Chicago mayor-elect Johnson will continue relationship

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Stephanie Kollmann

7 years

Up to 85% of young Black men in Chicago are 1) put on this list, 2) assigned a high score that's 3) visible to every CPD officer, despite 4) pattern/practice of unconstitutional (including deadly) force. How the algorithm crunches numbers (albeit poorly) is not the core issue.

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Andrew G. Ferguson

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Big Data Policing in Chicago. @ChiTribBooks @chicagotribune @ChicagoMag #Chicago

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the median pay at CPD is more than 2xs the median pay of a Chicago journalist so if you're just writing down what they say you could make a lot more money in-house

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The Intercept

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Northwestern students face criminal charges for pro-Palestine college newspaper parody by @connor_echols

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

As more people question the role of police in traffic enforcement, police will sometimes claim they do not do pretextual traffic stops. Here's what happened with traffic stops when, in 2016, it became harder for Chicago police to do unconstitutional stops of people on foot.

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Stephanie Kollmann

4 years

Of course rioting police are knowingly targeting journalists for violence. Police unions support those political rallies declaring the press the enemy of the people.

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Stephanie Kollmann

10 months

FYI because you may have missed it, the CDC has gently whispered that everyone should be wearing a mask. That is the Biden Admin version of a four-alarm catastrophe response.

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Stephanie Kollmann

10 months

If you have grown tired of your standard answers to Qs about why you wear a high-quality mask in crowded public spaces you can mix in that the CDC currently recommends it for everyone.

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

People are discussing Chicago police officers leaving with a great deal of concern, so let's reorient ourselves to how many more police Chicago has per capita than other cities

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

Reposting chart - cut off upthread

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Stephanie Kollmann

10 months

Along with the many other horrific aspects of this child's death, I continue to think about this.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

Terrible re: FOIA. Ridiculous re: MLL being misquoted. But the substance here should *shock* Chicagoans. The mayor is suggesting that decisions about people's innocence should be influenced by her office's **liability concerns.**

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Gregory Royal Pratt

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Troubling FOIA matter: Mayor Lightfoot said Kim Foxx hands out wrongful conviction certificates like candy. Foxx called her out in text. Lightfoot apologized, then doubled down. Foxx told her, “This is bullshit.” MO released half of convo— SA released all. City won’t explain.

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

UPDATE: the above post uses old FBI data. Since people are interested in this, I retrieved the most current data, published Fall 2020. LA has hired a few more police, but it is still true that Chicago has more than 2Xs the officers of 15 of the 20 largest cities and almost 2X LA.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

Why is it appropriate to treat people resourceful enough to travel 3,000 miles through 4 countries as though they require supervision, bedtimes, cooked meals, etc., rather than living freely w/ basic supports? Mass encampments are not "trauma-informed" or "culturally-competent"

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

313 people detained at Cook County Jail have covid. Chicago's mayor just asked judges to INcrease jail population, taking issue with 2,300 people on home confinement, 64% of whom have unlicensed gun possession as their highest charge. It's not only unconstitutional, but unwise.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

"[S]everal other defendants waiting for their cases to be called gasped as they heard details of the deal. 'He’s a cop?' one man asked. Another wondered, 'He got probation?,' and later added, 'Damn!'"

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Former Chicago cop gets probation after pleading guilty to firing at unarmed man while off duty,...

Joseph Cabrera, 40, pleaded guilty to reckless discharge of a firearm and was sentenced to 24 months of probation for the October 2020 shooting.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Hey! Rare example of a Chicago media outlet unraveling the lie* CPD has been telling since at least January 2021. *that's the word I consider accurate to describe inventing bespoke crime/data labels to cause the listener to draw incorrect conclusions. +

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Chicago Police Stats on Carjacking Arrests Appear to Conflict With City Data

The Chicago Police Department released its monthly statistics for July on Monday, touting more than 800 carjacking arrests so far this year – but that figure appears to conflict with the city’s own...

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Stephanie Kollmann

7 years

Shamirah Johnson, held on a "warrant," is dead. Polk County Sheriff threatened hurricane evacuees w/ warrant checks.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

As a reminder, police regularly lie about the law.

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Balu Puppy

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Wtf?!

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Yes, while awaiting trial on gun violence charges: (from getting drunk, harassing people, shooting at them, and then lying about it) -he was free on $0 bond for over two years; -no mention of any home confinement. Ordinary people should be presumed as innocent as police are.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Not the main point here, but Vallas sent the children home with letters supporting *a Republican politician* in their backpacks.

@peoplesfabric

The People’s Fabric

2 years

Perhaps one of our favorite Vallas quotes comes here, "If I have to break the law, I'll break the law." Recently Mayor Lightfoot took fire for asking teachers to recruit students for political work. It seems Vallas also previously "used children as pawns" for politics.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Also, not the point, but most Chicago police officers are paid well over $100k/year (NOT counting pension and major benefits). If you believe thousands will quit bc they don't like their great-great-great-grandboss, I'd like to tell you about an exciting investment opportunity!

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Stephanie Kollmann

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As many are pointing out, having an unusually high number of police officers has not made our city unusually safe. The budgetary impact is huge. Despite our large number of officers, overtime is rampant. Most CPD employees are paid over $100k/year.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

The national average is $5-7 on education for every $1 to police. Chicago spends less than $5. We can't even pony up a solid Lincoln on education compared to CPD's overblown budget and still, Mr. Fiscal Whiz is complaining about it.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

The fastest, safest, most effective way to resolve dangerous short-staffing is releasing people. People will claim that's been done as much as it can be, but this is always what they say, every step of the way. Looking back, it's obvious they were wrong in the past, same as now

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Patrick Smith

1 year

A state report obtained by WBEZ shows dire conditions: billions in needed repairs, dangerous short-staffing and an elderly prison population. But shrinking prisons is controversial.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

Has someone tried turning the Trib off and on again? Is someone being held hostage who can only signal distress via the Opinion page? What...IS...this?

@chitribopinions

Chicago Tribune Opinion

@chitribopinions

1 year

Will St. Louis be the next city to see a soft-on-crime public official kicked to the curb? That’s the question in St. Louis less than a month after our neighbors in Illinois gave Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot the boot, a lifelong St. Louis resident writes.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

When we put children in cells and shroud those cells in secrecy - true of every single kind of youth lockup, w/ differences only in degree of control and isolation - we are saying that we are fine with it. That we cannot conceive of anything better. That we are morally bankrupt.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

Update: down another 11.63% so far this AM

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Stephanie Kollmann

4 years

Thanks to this reporter for describing in detail that many young people did not want to go on the record due to the fear of targeted police retaliation. A lot of reporters think that reluctance means there's no story, but it IS the story.

@TheTRiiBE

The TRiiBE

4 years

“What we’re seeing from Mayor Lightfoot and Supt. Brown is the definition of insanity,” says @kalebautman . “The response of throwing more cops at the problem; we’ve seen [former Mayor] Daley do it, and [former Mayor Emanuel] do it. It didn’t work then.”

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

10 days after her speech, Mayor Lightfoot has now delivered her letter requesting that judges impose an unconstitutional moratorium on pretrial release. For those who do not understand why her request is both unconstitutional and bad policy +

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Mayor Lightfoot’s proposal to keep crime suspects in jail violates our Constitution

The Constitution of the State of Illinois is clear: We the people have the right to pretrial release and there are no charges — not even murder — for which a judge may categorically deny us bail.

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Stephanie Kollmann

1 year

And *none* of this would be known except that he was already being investigated for a third assault seemingly NOT related to his official duties. How could these victims possibly come forward when dealing with CPD is how they came to be sexually assaulted in the first place?

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Jake Sheridan

1 year

A Chicago police officer molested boys sleeping at his house and filmed it on separate occasions, prosecutors said. He met one boy, 13, when the boy's parents were arrested. He met another, 14, when the boy filed a police report. @chicagotribune :

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Ask yourself why "crime" is considered the biggest issue in selecting the next mayor of Chicago. Is it really because of robberies and carjackings?

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

"The mayor will work with anyone who uses real data" is *quite* a quote, since the mayor's letter to the Chief Judge purposely misclassified more than 1,000 arrests for nonviolent crime as violent.

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Heather Cherone

@HeatherCherone

3 years

Mayor Lori Lightfoot rejected Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans’ call to work together as part of a concerted effort to reduce violent crime in Chicago, saying the court system is making “Chicago neighborhoods less safe.” @wttw

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

The loss of liberty will not save lives. Masks would.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

I am so tired of hearing fearmongering about "murderers" being on pretrial release as if virtually every person in the City of Chicago did not know that Jason Van Dyke was sitting in his own house waiting for trial for first degree murder

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

I would like to hear more from healthcare privacy advocates about the pros/cons of ask #3 , but this is a good start and it is so important that *someone* is making meaningful demands of POTUS on abortion.

@capitolfax

Capitol Fax

2 years

Pritzker wants four things from Biden on abortion issue

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

What does Chicago not fund when we spend $1.7 billion on policing? So much. But given the circumstances and the time of year, I'll mention, again, that youth in the city's summer employment program are not paid minimum wage.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

No snark: National press should be paying real attention to the fact that various permutations of FOP, GOP, bail reform hawks, TradDems, and ConservaDems partnered up to try to win these races and were - to put it kindly! - obliterated. National Dems should pay attention, too.

@WillGuzzardi

Will Guzzardi

2 years

Let me clarify: @Delia4Congress won by 4️⃣0️⃣ @OmarAquinoIL2 won by 6️⃣0️⃣ Lilian Jimenez by 6️⃣5️⃣ @robertmartwick by 3️⃣0️⃣ @LaPointefor19 by 5️⃣0️⃣ @AnthonyJQuezada by 1️⃣5️⃣ (against an incumbent in a 5-way race!) They came after the progressive mvmt on the NWSide. We said night night!

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Stop saying CPD has "staffing" problems when you mean "priority," "efficiency," or "management" [Note: I might update this chart since the Fall 2022 FBI report is likely out, but it is not misleadingly out-of-date. As of January 3, 2023, CPD has 434 officers per 100k residents]

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Stephanie Kollmann

3 years

Most homicides occur between people of the same race; about 2% are declared "justified" by investigators. But when a white person kills a Black person, almost 1 in 5 are declared justified -- *21 times* as often as when the races are reversed.

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The Marshall Project

3 years

In our analysis of 400,000 homicides committed by civilians between 1980 and 2014, we found that killings of black males by white people were labeled "justifiable" more than eight times as often as others.

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Stephanie Kollmann

2 years

Vallas: "Illinois Policy does great work, great work in terms of reporting on these things. I mean, really them and CWB, and of course, Wire Points and I mean, they just do great work on providing really independent research and reporting." CRIKEY

@capitolfax

Capitol Fax

2 years

Vallas said that Pritzker’s executive orders allowed governor to act like a “dictator”

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Stephanie Kollmann

5 years

Today, the Chicago Police Department complained at a press conference that Facebook allows its users too much privacy. CPD believes that Facebook should cooperate w/ law enforcement, including allowing officers to create fake profiles to gain access to users' private groups.

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Stephanie Kollmann

4 years

@AdamWeinstein I wonder whether the community knows @WPBGalleria provides support to these white supremacists' offices. If my biz or law firm shared an address/meeting rooms at Galleria International with white supremacists, I would want to know @chamberupdate @PBCBarPrez @JewishPalmBeach

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