Westside Center for Justice

05/26/2021

Community organizations say they became true partners with government and big hospitals to fight the pandemic. Now they’re hoping that approach could help solve the city’s long standing health inequities.

04/13/2021

Our board chair is turning 50! Celebrate with a good Roast, Toast, and Dance party DJ'd by Chicago's DJ Vince Adams! The event is *free* to attend but donations are highly encourage, click on this link to make a donation!

03/18/2021

Demand that CPD end violent no knock warrants that traumatize our community! Leave comments here by tomorrow, March 18th 👉🏽 home.chicagopolice.org/reform/policy-… and tell them to support the Anjanette Young Ordinance!

03/13/2021

Mayor Lightfoot’s and Superintendent Brown’s CPD proposed search warrant reforms will allow CPD to continue violent, racist home invasions. The proposed policy has too few checks on the search warrant process, fails to stop excessive force, fails to protect women and children from brutal, humiliating and traumatic assaults, and fails to require sufficient accountability and transparency to the public. Mayor Lightfoot and Superintendent Brown also refuse to require that CPD officers act in a manner that is least intrusive and least harmful to the rights and safety of Chicago families. As a result, CPD officers will continue to harm us with impunity. There must be an immediate moratorium on these types of home invasions.

CPD and city officials developed this policy with no input from the communities most affected by police violence and with no input from those who have survived high profile CPD home invasions. The Anjanette Young Ordinance was developed with significant community input and provides a complete remedy to CPD’s unlawful, violent and racist search warrant related policies and practices. If Mayor Lightfoot and Superintendent Brown truly want to stop this harm, they will listen to the demands of community members with lived experience—including Anjanette Young herself—and support the Anjanette Young Ordinance!

Let them know that you demand that you demand an immediate moratorium and support the Anjanette Young Ordinance by leaving your comments before March 18th!

Search Warrant Policy for Public Review and Comment Search Warrant Policy for Public Review and Comment Thank you for visiting the Chicago Police Department’s public comment forum for the draft Department Special Order on Search Warrants. As part of our ongoing mission to provide community members...

03/12/2021

CPD & Lightfoot withheld tapes of the unlawful, racist, humiliating and traumatic invasion of Anjanette Young’s home. We can’t trust them to reform themselves! Let them know we demand more! Submit your comments by March 18th! https://home.chicagopolice.org/reform/policy-review/search-warrant-policy-for-public-review-and-comment/

Search Warrant Policy for Public Review and Comment Search Warrant Policy for Public Review and Comment Thank you for visiting the Chicago Police Department’s public comment forum for the draft Department Special Order on Search Warrants. As part of our ongoing mission to provide community members...

02/24/2021

Chokeholds are banned.
Body cameras are mandatory.
Cash bail is no more.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed these reforms and many more into law. Read Injustice Watch’s latest roundup to learn more about this historic criminal justice reform.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs historic criminal justice reform package into law, reforming almost every area of the justice system.

02/13/2021

Shocking. 😒

Authors of new study of data on the Chicago Police Department suggest increasing diversity may be an effective police reform strategy.

02/08/2021

Deadline is NOON TODAY! Don’t forget to vote for founder, Brendan Shiller, in Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago 2020! https://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/best-of-ballot-voting-nominations/Content?oid=83800909 #//

01/26/2021

Thank you, Sharlyn Grace!

Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF) officially came to life just over five years ago in November 2015. This half decade has been filled with advocacy, organizing, relationship building, and abolitionist victories. This has been a time of citywide, statewide, and nationwide rebellion against the white...