Chicago Justice Podcast

AI Policing: Old Promises, New Dangers

Send us Fan Mail AI is coming to policing and prosecution, with the same old promises. Jake Laperruque, Deputy Director of the Security and Surveillance Project at the C

Rooting White Supremacists Out of the Chicago Police

Send us Fan Mail Chicago police officers showed up on leaked membership lists of extremist groups like the Oath Keepers. City leaders promised action and delivered slaps

Weaponizing Crime Data: Jeff Asher on Facts vs. Fear

Send us Fan Mail Crime is falling in cities across America—so why does the public conversation sound like the opposite? Crime analyst Jeff Asher, co-founder of AH Dataly

Blacked Out: The Montgomery County Traffic Stop Cover-Up

Send us Fan Mail A stop for a missed turn signal and a dim license plate light should have been routine. Instead, it ended in an arrest on charges that don't hold u

When Justice Isn't Enough: Louisiana's Fight Over Compensating the Wrongfully Convicted

Send us Fan Mail Under Louisiana law, people who were wrongfully convicted and served years, even decades, in state prison are entitled to compensation through the Louis

Gendered Police Violence: The Crimes the Media Won't Name

Send us Fan Mail Police shootings make headlines. Police officers sexually abusing children and adults rarely do. This week we sit down with Rachel LaPointe, a social wo

Beyond Curfews: DC Councilmember Zachary Parker on Youth Gatherings

Send us Fan Mail DC Councilmember Zachary Parker (Ward 5) joins us to unpack one of the most misunderstood issues in local politics today: youth gatherings and the media

The Conviction Integrity Unit Under Eileen O'Neill Burke: A New Direction, Fewer Exonerations?

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Chicago Justice Podcast, we sit down with Injustice Watch Senior Reporter Dan Hinkel to examine the changing role of the Cook County St

Turner’s Outdoorsman, Crime Guns, and What the Data Reveals | Ft The Trace’s Aaron Mendelson

Send us Fan Mail New reporting from The Trace has shed light on an important question in the gun violence prevention space: Why are firearms sold by certain retailers sh

The Right to Know Under Threat? California’s AB 1821 Explained with Sean McMorris

Send us Fan Mail California’s public records law is designed to give residents access to government information, but proposed changes to Assembly Bill 1821 (AB 1821) cou

The NYPD’s Secretive Community Response Team: Misconduct, Power, and Accountability

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a police unit operates outside traditional oversight and is staffed by officers with troubling disciplinary histories? In this episod

Who Is Being Watched? The Geography of ALPR Surveillance

Send us Fan Mail More than 100,000 Automated License Plate Reader cameras are now operating across the United States, feeding data into networks shared by thousands of p

Flock Security and the Rise of Mass Vehicle Surveillance | Featuring Jon McCray Jones

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we begin a special series examining the rapid expansion of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) technology and the growing privacy and

When Official Stories Collapse: The Brandon Webster Murder

Send us Fan Mail What really happened on New Year’s Day 2019 when North Carolina State Highway Patrol troopers shot and killed Brandon Webster? For years, the official

Beyond Qualified Immunity: How Police Avoid Accountability

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sit down with Joanna C. Schwartz, UCLA law professor and author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable, to unpack the hidden

Because I Got Raided: Afroman, Police Power, and a Lawsuit That Backfired”

Send us Fan Mail This week, we break down the controversial 2022 raid of Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman’s home by Adams County Sheriff’s deputies and the legal fallout

Crime, Fear, and Power: Why We’re Taking a National Focus

Send us Fan Mail How politics, media, and institutions distort crime narratives across America Fear has become the dominant framework for how Americans understand crime

What does the science say about ShotSpotter?

Send us Fan Mail In a first-of-its-kind independent analysis of the effectiveness of ShotSpotter, the science says the technology does not lead to more arrests and convi

Time to Remove Guns from People Suspected of DV?

Send us Fan Mail We open season four with a discussion of Karina’s bill, which hopes to formalize a process for the courts & police departments throughout Illinois to se

Trying to Erase History is Purposeful

Send us Fan Mail On today’s show, we discuss the connection between racialized policing in the US and the efforts by the right-wing to erase slavery from America’s histo