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Former federal prosecutor Erika Csicsila spearheaded Operation Snake Doctor. In the wake of the investigation's overturned convictions and civil rights lawsuits, she tried to block disclosure
An interview with Detective Michael Hammond
Newly-released Chicago Police data reveals the department used drones hundreds of times for a variety of law enforcement purposes, including first response, search warrants, and surveillance of large public gatherings.
Illinois law, namely the Freedom From Drone Surveillance Act, spells it out quite clearly: all law enforcement agencies in the state are required to report annually the time, location and purpose of each of their drone flights.
A botched CPD investigation following the murder of officer Clifton Lewis led to Angel Perez's alleged abuse in the notorious Homan Square police facility
GAMAAN has extensive ties to U.S. government-funded, pro-regime change orgs, and employs unreliable survey methods that produce misleading results
It wasn't just Chicago Police operating the off-the-books holding facility, the site of alleged torture and days-long unlawful detention
Crown Family Philanthropies will provide CPD with $150,000 technology grant
The leftist Party gathering took aim at American (and Chicagoan) support for Israel
Formerly CIA-funded, Dataminr has been criticized for its surveillance of non-criminal protest activity, and has provided hundreds of thousands of reports to the Chicago Police Department
