that will serve as a national model for transparency. Knight praised the data project as an “online toolkit for reporting, tracking and analyzing allegations of police misconduct. A small amount on the force, but a huge impact. For transcripts, show notes, and extra content check out our website, follow us on instagram, or on twitter. That means utterly cruel individuals who get off on humiliating African-Americans or women. Invisible Institutions is a new documentary podcast exploring the past and present of institutions for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Canada. Knight Foundation, the nation’s most prominent underwriter of journalistic innovation, on Monday awarded the Citizens Police Data Project a $400,000 Knight News Challenge grant for innovation. The data we have would suggest conditions of virtual impunity for abusive officers, said writer and human rights activist Jamie Kalven of the Invisible Institute. The data tool just picked up an important admirer. Says the institute, “In the media storm that ensued, the Invisible Institute’s data tool created crucial context about Van Dyke’s record of undisciplined complaints, revealing an alleged pattern of excessive force and racial slurs.” Two weeks later, a judge ordered the release of the video of McDonald being shot repeatedly by officer Jason Van Dyke.
And you’ve probably read about the Citizens Police Data Project, a collaboration between Mandel and the institute that led to last November’s release of some 56,000 past misconduct complaints against more than 8,500 Chicago police officers. The Invisible Institute was demanding the release of any police video of 2014’s fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald even before it was certain a video existed. Today the institute documents, investigates, and litigates, and its website even makes mention of “conceptual art projects.” Kalven now has partners-such as Darryl Holliday, whose new City Bureau is “training a new generation of young reporters in the practice of urban journalism.” (Some of this journalism-such as this story by Holliday-appears in the Reader.) Another ally is the University of Chicago’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic.īut what matters is that Kalven is at war against the impunity seemingly enjoyed by bad cops, and he has been for a long time. To dress up the operation in ironic fashion, Kalven declared that the View operated under the auspices of the Invisible Institute, a name pulled from thin air. It calls itself a “journalistic production company” that develops strategies “to expand and operationalize transparency.” The name itself is a joke: years ago founder Jamie Kalven was running a muckraking website, the View From the Ground, out of an empty apartment in a since demolished CHA high-rise along South State Street. The Invisible Institute is a tough concept to get your mind around.
This information will contextualize the experience for students and catalyze questions and discussion during the visit.Get your UnGala tickets: A museum takeover and art party celebrating the Reader's 50ish anniversary Close Chicago Studies Conversations explore important urban studies topics with.Prior to the FE, students will have explored the Invisible Institute’s website and a recent article on the killing of a young black male by police in Chicago, and responded to a set of questions about both. Chicago Studies Conversation - Maira Khwaja, Invisible Institute Irina Sterligova, Moscow The Communal Spirit of the Invisible Institute Sterligov carried on the legacy of the Russian avant-garde not only through his. Students will take notes and ask questions during the site visit with Mr.
Kalven has been an expert in the field for decades, and has most recently been producing video testimonies by Chicago youth who’ve experienced racist police tactics as a regular part of life. Invisible architectures operate mostly in such a way that our biological senses don’t perceive them directly. In this sense, it is firmly rooted in the democratic function of journalism, and focuses on investigative reporting that seeks to affect real change in the social and political spheres of Chicago, especially in the areas of police misconduct and corruption. The Invisible Institute is a journalistic organization operating on the city’s south side that seeks to not only report news, but also to inspire dialogue.
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