Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Policing

Police on New York's MTA. Photo: Caitlin Plauf via Streetsblog NYC

Caveat to Lightfoot: Over-police the CTA and you may face NYC-style subway protests

By John Greenfield | Feb 3, 2020 | No Comments

If additional policing leads to the criminalization of more people of color and low-income residents, don't be surprised if the response is hundreds of angry Chicagoans storming the turnstiles.

A security guard with a German shepherd on the Red Line. Photo: Dan Gaken

Serious CTA crime is on the rise. How can we fight it beyond using cops and cameras?

By John Greenfield | Jan 13, 2020 | No Comments

More policing and camera surveillance doesn't make everyone feel safer, but bringing back CTA conductors would help deter crime.

Walking in Englewood. Photo: John Greenfield

Police stop stats are more evidence that Black residents have less mobility freedom

By John Greenfield | Oct 29, 2019 | No Comments

Following a 2015 agreement between the city of Chicago and the ACLU, the number of investigatory stops have plummeted, but 72 percent of cases still involved African American subjects.

The South Central bike shop where cops pulled up and ordered Anthony to get up against the wall. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Webinar on Policing and Mobility Underscores Struggle of Urban Planning to Center Justice

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 13, 2018 | No Comments

There is no way forward without a genuine reckoning with the costs that structures empowered to hold blackness at bay continue to exact from people of color.

Robert Calvin rides in Chicago's Austin neighborhood. 264 bike tickets were written in the community last year, compared to only five in Lincoln Park. Photo: John Greenfield

Equiticity’s Oboi Reed Responds to the Latest Tribune Report on Racially Biased Bike Ticketing

By John Greenfield | Feb 12, 2018 | 15 Comments

Almost a year after the Trib revealed apparent racial bias in ticketing practices, little has changed.