Writing

Investigations

Missed Shots: A multipart investigation of ShotSpotterSouth Side Weekly

NASCAR cost Chicago millions in road work and overtimeSouth Side Weekly

Chicago police pistol-whipped suspect in brutal 2017 arrestChicago Reader

New body-cam images show CPD attack on Miracle Boyd Chicago Reader & South Side Weekly

Surveilling Dissent: Police used Chicago’s gun-violence prevention center to monitor protests South Side Weekly

Internal CPD audits show half of officers have complaintsSouth Side Weekly

Public Safety

Finalists announced for public safety commissionSouth Side Weekly

Johnson stops ShotSpotterSouth Side Weekly

Police brutality survivors and former cops are running for Chicago’s Police District CouncilsChicago Reader

Where gun stores open, gun homicides increaseScientific American

In Chicago, controversy mounts over the use of gunshot detection sensorsThe Trace

Politics

Mayor Brandon Johnson on his organizing roots and vision for ChicagoSouth Side Weekly

Landlords warn tenants: Don’t vote for Bring Chicago HomeSouth Side Weekly

‘Fox and Friends’ staged Naperville interview criticizing Mayor Brandon JohnsonThe TRiiBE

ECPS coalition wins a wide majority of Chicago’s new Police District Council seatsThe TRiiBE

Paul Vallas’s trail of school privatizationThe TRiiBE & Slate

Organizing

Activists spar with ShotSpotter CEO at CCPSA meetingSouth Side Weekly

Vigil for Gaza ends in direct action, arrests South Side Weekly

CTU president Stacy Davis Gates on elected school board and more South Side Weekly & In These Times

Fifty years of struggle: Frank Chapman on the movement for community control of policeChicago Reader

The youth are on fireChicago Reader

What Happened July 17? A document of the conflict in Grant Park South Side Weekly