Editorial: Reforming Chicago police contract will only happen if the good guys step up – Chicago Tribune

“Weak discipline of officers with founded complaints of misconduct, and provisions that discourage whistleblowing of misconduct, are two areas reformers want changed in the new contract. Will members of the FOP who perform above board, with integrity and honesty — the majority — pressure their own union leaders to abandon protocols that protect bad cops?”

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University of Chicago among hospitals eliminating COVID-19 units as number of patients drops – Chicago Tribune

“Part of the regular day-to-day function of the hospital is dealing with patients on isolation and keeping all of the staff and other patients safe,” one epidemiologist said, noting that the hospital typically deals with illnesses such as the flu and whooping cough. “That’s the regular business that we do, with masks and gowns and hand washing and negative pressure rooms when indicated.”

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State Bankruptcy Revisited – National Affairs

David Skeel, law prof: “The best way for Congress to help states, both with their immediate coronavirus problems and with longer-term structural issues, would be to include a state-bankruptcy framework within any pandemic-response aid package it enacts.”

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FOP president calls Lightfoot’s bluff on disciplinary changes – Chicago Sun-Times

“If they want to get rid of the [sworn] affidavit, then take the residency requirement out of the frickin’ contract and also take the no-strike clause out of our contract and then, let’s see how serious you really are. Give us the same ability that teachers have and give us the ability to live outside the city and then we’ll entertain the conversation about getting rid of the affidavit,” Catanzara told the Sun-Times.

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After Outcry, Aldermen Set to Study Nearly 2-Year-Old Audit That Found Problems With Officers in Schools – WTTW (Chicago)

A joint session of the City Council’s Public Safety and Education committees will examine the program at 10 a.m. July 2 — nine months after the chairs of the committees demanded answers about the original audit, issued in September 2018. The Inspector General found the program was so poorly run that it increased the “probability that students are unnecessarily becoming involved in the criminal justice system.”

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“There Is No Apolitical Classroom” – City Journal

The Chicago Public School district headlined its recently released “toolkit to help foster productive conversations about race and civil disobedience” with an epigraph by Angela Davis, the former Communist and criminal fugitive who supplied the guns used in the Marin Courthouse massacre in 1970. “In a racist society, it is not enough to not be non-racist,” said Davis. “We must be anti-racist.” The toolkit provides links to materials written by the Southern Poverty Law Center and directs teachers toward Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Anti-Racist.

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