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Northwestern Report Highlights the Need for Culture Change in Cook County’s Court System

The criminal legal system is divided into two main groups: insiders and outsiders. Court “insiders” include judges, clerks, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and other court staff; essentially, the individuals who are familiar with the legal system and are not at court for personal affairs. Court “out...

NEW REPORT | “Slipping Through the Cracks” – Evaluation of the Cook County Domestic Violence Division in Chicago

Since early 2020, Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts and the Chicago Council of Lawyers have been evaluating the Domestic Violence Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, with a specific focus on the Domestic Violence Courthouse at 555 West Harrison in Chicago. Today, we release our find...

Summer 2019: Violence was down and Homicides were at their lowest in five years

Now that October has come and the summer is decidedly over, policy makers and journalists alike are engaging in a yearly, grim calculus: How bad was the gun violence in Chicago this summer? Did it get worse? Is it getting better? And most importantly, why? This summer, however, has been unusually p...

“Accountability Monday” Press Conference on the Inaccuracies of CPD’s “Gun Offender Dashboard,” August 12, 2019.

On Monday, August 12, we stood with community advocates and fellow members of the Coalition to End Money Bond to speak out against CPD’s inaccurate and misleading use of data on the “Gun Offender Dashboard.” In the attached video, Sarah Staudt, Senior Policy Analyst and Staff Attorney for Chicago A...

New Book Looks at Racial Injustice in the Cook County Courts

On May 11th, Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spoke at University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration about her new book, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court. (Stanford Law Books). Before a packed auditorium, Van Cleve, a Temple University criminal justic...

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