Chicago Police Department

Chicago PD detained 7,000 people at off-the-books interrogation site

RT | October 19, 2015 More than 7,000 people have been detained, ‘disappeared’ and not given access to an attorney at a police-run facility in Chicago, Illinois, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. This number is much higher than previously believed. Only 68 of the 7,125 people held at Homan Square, the Chicago Police […]

Chicago police spied on survivor of Chicago police shooting, Black political groups

PrivacySOS | September 20, 2015 Between November 2014 and January 2015, the Chicago Police Department monitored the First Amendment protected speech and political activity of dozens of groups and individuals, among them a victim of a Chicago police shooting, according to newly released documents. Chicago based activist Freddy Martinez released the records after obtaining them […]