Prosecuting Looters, Pardoning Criminals

If activists have lost the trust of the city based on these incidents of looting, it is clear police should have lost that trust long ago.

Healing Communities Through Mental Health

Greater investment in mental health resources have shown to help reduce gun violence and crime. So why are communities most affected by violence deprived of mental health resources?

Teaching Over Policing

In this first part of this series, discussing alternatives to policing, we show how removing police from schools can open doors for new approaches and actual investment in Black education.

Police Violence and Gun Violence are Related

Police are not the solution to gun violence in Chicago, but part of the problem.

How Local Politics are Shaping Police Reform

Even as the national debate about police violence rages, local officials dictate the most meaningful steps to reforming police.

Corona and Cannabis

As the Coronavirus and subsequent shut-down wreak havoc on every industry throughout the world, there is one particularly young and precarious industry that may have gone under the radar. Legal adult use cannabis is still a very new but growing part of the economy. It has had its ups and downs as states and businesses…