Stephanie Kollmann
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law, policy, Illinoisances reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
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The actual analysis was not released. There is no report or data or methodology. Those are Coming Soon. Only the Executive Summary was released. It does NOT call for "hundreds more officers." The consultant's draft staffing plan recommends 121 officers BUT NOTABLY... +
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
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what I most appreciate about this update: when I first heard of this story I *do* recall thinking "no this isn't dumb enough"
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Put another way: even if this analysis were taken at face value, someone would need to ask what adding 120 officers is worth cutting. How is safety actually created? Funding 120 CPD officers out of the library budget would result in a workforce reduction of at least **25%**.
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But the most important point, by far, is: the scope of work here was "people with police planning and management experience: design an optimal police department" NOT "people with city planning and management experience: design an optimal city"
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The Exec Summ says its draft staffing recommendation is subject to change due to **policy,** labor, & budget. It's calculated using 40% idle time ("proactive time") for patrol officers (time not responding to a call etc.). I would bet: data prior to Sept 2024 was used to calculate non-call time đ+
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The actual analysis was not released. There is no report or data or methodology. Those are Coming Soon. Only the Executive Summary was released. It does NOT call for "hundreds more officers." The consultant's draft staffing plan recommends 121 officers BUT NOTABLY... +
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Arrested for domestic battery and DUI "Last year, Ryan was sworn into a high-ranking position with the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, a nonprofit that lobbies the Statehouse on behalf of 'more than 1,400 law enforcement leaders.'" (VP of IACP)
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Leland Grove police chief granted pretrial release - Illinois Times, the capital city's weekly source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture
One day after Leland Grove Police Chief Dan Ryan was arrested for domestic battery and driving under the influence, Sangamon County Judge Rudolph Braud granted Ryan pre-trial release until a March 11 ...
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news/leland-grove-police-chief-granted-pre-trial-release/
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I'll add: putting 24 kids in your house and calling it a school means you don't have to meet daycare license requirements.
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about 22 hours ago
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Melissa Gira Grant
about 22 hours ago
all Iâll add is Bondi, as Florida AG, used âfighting sex traffickingâ to elevate herselfâempowering cops at the expense of survivors. long before Trump she was like this
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Heather Cherone
about 22 hours ago
The officer who led the pursuit that ended with the death of Dominga Flores Gomez has been suspended 3 times for a total of 6 days for engaging in pursuits that violated CPD policy. One of those pursuits occurred just 10 days before Flores Gomez was killed.
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Gender-based violence is real and serious but also an electioneering tool used to promote baseless or actively harmful policies based on dubious evidence, if any It is extremely important that we stop letting the carceral state pinkwash the constant expansion of its footprint
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"initiated by" not "involving"
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This is not only a GOP issue, or only a national issue.
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about 22 hours ago
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Karl Bode
about 24 hours ago
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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Jessica Pishko
about 24 hours ago
People are routinely subjected to sexual harm, yes, and other people perpetuate sexual harm. But it is a myth that serves the police to make "sex trafficking" a unique crime that is committed by shadowy others. All of the copaganda has not protected women and girls at all.
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Jessica Pishko
about 24 hours ago
I have written before that as a category (like all other police propaganda), the "data" on trafficking was unsubstantiated.
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The Unbearable Vagueness of âSex Traffickingâ
Part 1: The Data?
https://sheriffs.substack.com/p/the-unbearable-vagueness-of-sex-trafficking
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Jessica Pishko
about 24 hours ago
For example, all of the "immigration policing" happening right now was legitimized by law enforcement as necessary because of "trafficking." (the "rape trees" etc.)
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Jessica Pishko
about 24 hours ago
Too Big to Fail: Epstein edition
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Jessica Pishko
about 24 hours ago
It should be illuminating that prosecuting sex trafficking, the thing that prosecutors and police across the country have been using as a cash cow to fund surveillance and weaponry, is actually not something government prosecutors care about at all. The system does not hold people accountable.
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Oh so the coding advice is like the legal research and writing advice
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about 24 hours ago
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC
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simply one of the greatest calls of all time
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"Temporary Protected Status was meant to be a shield. Instead, it has become a shackle â keeping Black immigrant families in a permanent state of uncertainty, unable to fully plan, rest, or build."
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Gabe OrtĂz
1 day ago
âIn this moment, we are called to end the growing police state that sends masked agents into our neighborhoods to harass and police us based on our skin color and our dialect. It calls us to defend Haitian
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as a moral obligation, not a political favor.â
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Gabe OrtĂz
1 day ago
âWe are surrounded by Black Caribbean communities whose labor fuels this region while their humanity is routinely questioned.â
www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/c...
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Commentary: Black History Month calls us to act
As Haitiansâ Temporary Protected Status is under threat, a look at what it means to be Black in America in 2026.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/commentary-black-history-month-calls-us-to-act/
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making art
about 2 months ago
and if the personal delivery device is thrown into the water, the company must retrieve the cocobot within 24 hours or the city of chicago will do it and charge them that sounds expensive the city planned on them being thrown into the water, ijs
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This flim-flam nonsense is why writing up *news stories* about tech company property like they are episodes of "Geek Squad: Special Victims Unit" is actively harmful to public understanding of reality, eroding interpretive skills. Not a cute joke.
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Guys I don't mean to brag but I can tell at a glance which one of these is not sentient đ
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Jacob Oller
1 day ago
we asked the people inside the snake oil factory about their potions and elixirs - they say even THEY can't predict all their wonderful effects
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Emily M. Bender
1 day ago
I don't mind being labeled a hater, because there's so much to hate about it. More upset that the article pretends that the third way of "we don't know" somehow is the reasonable one. That's just holding space for Askell's bananas position.
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Alex Hanna
1 day ago
This article immediately labels
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and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.
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Avery Edison
1 day ago
sigh
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE
1 day ago
Police lie so often that lawyers have a term for it: Testilying. Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.
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Dominique Baker
1 day ago
I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change
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People out there will say anything. "Tofu takes on the flavor of whatever you put it in." No it doesn't. That's not true.
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Did Lutnick say/was he asked whose yacht he was using when he arranged to visit Epstein's Island or who the other couple was that he arranged to take there
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Using criminal procedure as a floor makes some sense. E.g., if you break into a home and traumatize and toss a family into a cell over paperwork, you should have to at least meet the judicial process required re: a theft. But all of this policing flattery...no
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alec karakatsanis
2 days ago
One dangerous thing in this moment of Democrats focusing on fake "reforms" for ICE is that many news outlets, pundits, politicians, cops, and the for-profit policing industry are using this moment to downplay or erase the rampant lawlessness, surveillance, and brutality of contemporary policing.
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So, e.g., file on him
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Hayes Brown
3 days ago
i wrote about the pup-opticon
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Sam Cole
2 days ago
have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/
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Matthew Guariglia
2 days ago
I've been talking to the press about the moves Ring has been making for the better part of a decade, and I can say that as their omnipresence has increased, the public seem predisposed to hate them. Whether that actually changes whether people buy new units or take them out of the wall....who knows.
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Liz Neeley
2 days ago
If youâve been vaguely worried but unsure how to talk about the kidnappings happening all around us, this might help.
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[please do not respond to my statement using the word "dashboard," law enforcement's hedge when finally forced to disclose some info, enabling an agency to sort and aggregate data in a way that lets it tell the story it wants to tell. "Dashboard" w/o open data is just PR wearing a data suit.]
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Here's a UChicago prof's op-ed from last June. No progress.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/03/o...
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Too often, the political (and legal) penalty for avoiding transparency is lighter than the perceived political penalty of promoting it. State's Attorney data is presumptively public and subject to FOIA. There is zero reason it should not be provided in an open-access dataset. If *CPD* manages it...
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What a STORY. Incredible to read the whole thing And then the statement that none of the officers on the scene thought he had committed any crimes
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âYouâre One of Usâ: After Off-Duty Cop Crashed Car Then Holed Up at Home in Armed Standoff with Police, He Got a Big Hug and Initially Faced No Charges
Officer Ryan Harter eventually was charged with misdemeanors â nearly three weeks later.
https://illinoisanswers.org/2026/01/30/off-duty-cop-armed-standoff-he-surrendered-got-big-hug-and-initially-faced-no-charges/
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armando l sanchez
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armando l sanchez
2 days ago
A coyote walks through the Streeterville neighborhood Monday evening in Chicago.
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