The study, which tracks 100 years of ward redistricting in Chicago and Milwaukee, found that 15% of Chicago’s land has never changed wards.

Homer Glen announced Monday that it was suspending the use of Flock cameras within its borders pending an investigation after a Will County sheriff’s deputy was placed on administrative leave amid all...

All license plate readers must now be removed from state-maintained roads, the Florida Department of Transportation said in a memo obtained by WESH 2 News.

Cops have been accused of tapping into Flock's sprawling network to stalk people, while activists have been charged with vandalizing the company's cameras. But as some municipalities have jettisoned t...

Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.

Flock Safety ALPR cameras are now influencing home-buying decisions, with buyers using DeFlock to map neighborhood surveillance before scheduling showings.

Duncan runs Chicago CRED, which works to prevent shootings. He says volunteer Nakia Smith, arrested in a Far South Side police station in 2023, has been "fighting for the good." Smith, a convicted fel...

NYT reporters call Trump’s election-theft conspiracies what they are—tenacious lies Ben riffs. Robert Vargas separates truth from fiction in the matter of crime. If…

Experimental exposure to a police trust-building initiative widened gaps in police trust and support for racial equity policies.

A publicly maintained index of news articles documenting abuses, misuses, and civil liberties concerns related to Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs).

Professor of Sociology and Director of the Justice Project at the University of Chicago Robert Vargas will introduce “Public Interest AI Auditing” as an open-source, independent approach to evaluating...

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The area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

At a moment when an authoritarian president is seeking every tool possible to target his perceived political enemies, there is no better time for Chicago to rethink how it does business with technolog...

Without city funding, group counseling programs now serving 1,400 Chicago Public School students in 33 schools will end on Dec. 31. Those programs have helped students endure the violence- and family-...

This article synthesizes emerging research on the political economy of policing, conceptualized through a Gramscian framework that examines policing as an interinstitutional structure shaped by econom...