Angela Caputo, Author at The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com Investigating race and poverty since 1972 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 21:00:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/logo-1-reverse-1-150x150-1.png Angela Caputo, Author at The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com 32 32 163009088 Thousands charged with drug possession walk free, leaving taxpayers with tab https://www.chicagoreporter.com/best-of-2014-thousands-charged-with-drug-possession-walk-free-leaving-taxpayers-with-the-tab/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/best-of-2014-thousands-charged-with-drug-possession-walk-free-leaving-taxpayers-with-the-tab/#respond Mon, 05 Jan 2015 11:22:03 +0000 http://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=11776 Since 2006, Cook County taxpayers have spent $778 million locking up people on low-level drug possession charges. One out of three drug cases are dismissed, which means users are released from jail without treatment, only to return on similar charges weeks or months later.

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]]> https://www.chicagoreporter.com/best-of-2014-thousands-charged-with-drug-possession-walk-free-leaving-taxpayers-with-the-tab/feed/ 0 11776 Data: Black Chicagoans at higher risk of being shot by police https://www.chicagoreporter.com/best-of-2014-data-black-chicagoans-at-higher-risk-of-being-shot-by-police/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/best-of-2014-data-black-chicagoans-at-higher-risk-of-being-shot-by-police/#respond Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:17:03 +0000 http://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=11771 New data from the City of Chicago Independent Police Review Authority show African Americans show people of color are much more likely to be shot by a Chicago police officer than white counterparts.

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]]> https://www.chicagoreporter.com/best-of-2014-data-black-chicagoans-at-higher-risk-of-being-shot-by-police/feed/ 0 11771 Thousands charged with drug possession walk free, leaving taxpayers with the tab https://www.chicagoreporter.com/thousands-charged-drug-possession-walk-free-leaving-taxpayers-tab/ http://chicago-reporter.dev.cshp.co/thousands-charged-drug-possession-walk-free-leaving-taxpayers-tab/ Since 2006, Cook County taxpayers have spent $778 million locking up people on low-level drug possession charges. One out of three drug cases are dismissed, which means users are released from jail without treatment, only to return on similar charges weeks or months later.

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]]> 7971 Misconduct allegation dogs Chicago Police Department, but will it change it? https://www.chicagoreporter.com/misconduct-allegation-dogs-chicago-police-department-will-it-change-it/ Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:38:13 +0000 http://chicago-reporter.dev.cshp.co/misconduct-allegation-dogs-chicago-police-department-will-it-change-it/ Our partners over at NBC 5 revisit a history of misconduct allegations against a high-ranking Chicago police officer who was charged with official misconduct on Thursday. Chicago news organizations are all over a story about police Cmdr. Glenn Evans who was charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct on Thursday. Evans allegedly stuffed a gun […]

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]]> 7846 ‘Just because we’re black, they automatically assume we’re criminals’ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/just-because-were-black-they-automatically-assume-were-criminals/ http://chicago-reporter.dev.cshp.co/just-because-were-black-they-automatically-assume-were-criminals/ Two years ago this month, Chicago jumped on the bandwagon to decriminalize pot—sort of. That’s when the City Council gave police the green light to issue tickets rather than arresting people for having a relatively small stash of marijuana—15 grams, which amounts to roughly 25 joints. Police could still opt to make arrests, though. And they […]

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