Resources

This report offers data about juvenile justice specific to Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago, to analyze ways in which the juvenile justice system disproportionately targets youth of color, including through arrests.

This report describes a number of programs in Chicago that provide alternatives to incarceration for young people charged with or convicted of crimes. Included in this exploration are issues of cost, effectiveness, capacity, and the needs of youth and organizations moving forward.

This report is the result of collaboration between students in an introductory GIS course at Loyola University and Project NIA. Using data obtained through a request to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), the students used GIS to map and analyze school day crimes and arrests, estimate youth by race within CPD districts, illustrate patterns of juvenile arrests by CPD district, and provide preliminary critical analysis of youth arrest patterns in Chicago to offer suggestions for future research.

This is a visual report of juvenile arrests in Chicago and an overview of juvenile arrests and incarceration in Illinois, Cook County and Chicago.

Born of the passion of neighborhood mothers outraged at the NYPD’s treatment of their sons, this report spent two years documenting experiences of policing in a 40-block community near Yankee stadium. The collaborative research team of neighborhood residents in the South Bronx and members of the Public Science Project, the CUNY Graduate Center, John Jay College, and Pace University Law Center conducted focus groups of local residents, creating and analyzing a comprehensive survey that was distributed throughout the neighborhood. 1,030 residents took the survey, sharing their attitudes and experiences with police. These are the results.

This report covers FBI surveillance of political activity over roughly the past decade. It find that the FBI has repeatedly monitored civil society groups, including racial justice movements, Occupy Wall Street, environmentalists, Palestinian solidarity activists, Abolish ICE protesters, and Cuba and Iran normalization proponents. Additionally, FBI agents conducted interviews that critics have argued were designed to chill protests at the Republican National Convention or intimidate Muslim-American voters.

Most states neglect ordering police to learn de-escalation tactics to avoid shootings. In 34 states, training decisions are left to local agencies. Most, though, conduct no, or very little, de-escalation training. Chiefs cite cost, lack of staff, and a belief that the training isn’t needed.

This report provides a brief overview of what Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) is and what assumptions drive CVE programs. Given the illusive nature of CVE (and the ways that practitioners intentionally distance themselves from critiques of CVE), it also describes local CVE programs currently underway in Illinois and identifies the key players advancing this anti-terrorism project. Because CVE programs often are rebranded under different names and funding sources, this report also details ways to identify CVE. Lastly, this report shares the experiences of community partners across the country to illustrate the nature and impact of CVE, and how people have been exposing and resisting CVE.

While federal law enforcement agencies involved in Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) paint the program as a community outreach initiative dedicated to stopping people from becoming violent extremists, the reality is that these programs, which are based on junk science, have proven to be ineffective, discriminatory, and divisive. This report shares what you need to know about the dangers of CVE programs and why the framework should be abandoned rather than rehabilitated.