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		<title>Media coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromtheground.com/archive/2007/11/media-coverage.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Kalven</dc:creator>
		
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11-15-07 "Chicago police abuse cases exceed average" by Susan Saulny in the New York Times.
11-15-07 "Certain areas have more bad cops, attorney says" by Michael Higgins in the Chicago Tribune.
11-1-07 "Chicago to overhaul troubled police department," a report by Ben Calhoun on National Public Radio.
10-31-07 "Why is the city hiding scandals?" a column by Carol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Lefkow denies motion of aldermen</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromtheground.com/archive/2007/11/lefkow-denies-motion.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Kalven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 25, Judge Lefkow denied the motion of a group of aldermen to intervene in Bond v. Utreras in an effort to obtain the police documents she had earlier ruled are public. She no longer has jurisdiction over the matter, she said, because the case is on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>28 Aldermen intervene before Judge Lefkow</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromtheground.com/archive/2007/10/aldermen-intervene.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Kalven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today 28 aldermen filed a motion before Judge Lefkow seeking access to “certain Chicago Police Department documents.” At issue are the documents Judge Lefkow ruled are public in her July 2 opinion. The City has appealed that ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals. The aldermen argue that Corporation Counsel Mara Georges, contrary to her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City denies aldermen access to police documents</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromtheground.com/archive/2007/10/city-denies-aldermen.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Kalven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daley Administration is subverting the democratic process by withholding important information from the public and their elected representatives. Its sovereign contempt for First Amendment principles bears comparison to the excesses of the Bush Administration in the national security realm. In defiance of an order entered by a federal judge, Corporation Counsel Mara Georges has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Court of Appeals stays Lefkow order to unseal documents pending appeal by City</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromtheground.com/archive/2007/07/court-of-appeals-stays-order.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Kalven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 2, Judge Joan Lefkow of the U.S. District Court granted my motion to unseal a number of documents regarding allegations of police abuse that the City of Chicago is trying to keep secret.
On July 9, in response to an emergency motion by the City, Judge Lefkow granted a stay of her order until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kalven seeks Bond documents</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromtheground.com/archive/2007/03/kalven-seeks-bond-documents.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Kalven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 15, Jamie Kalven filed a motion to intervene in the Bond case for the purpose of challenging the protective order under which certain documents produced by the City in the course of the litigation are withheld from the public.  These include a list of Chicago police officers who have been repeatedly charged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exchange with Deputy Superintendent Kirby</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromtheground.com/archive/2007/03/exchange-with-kirby.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Kalven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 1, I published an op-ed piece in the Chicago Sun-Times on Mayor Daley’s Commission on Police Integrity. Appointed in 1997 in the wake of a police scandal in the Austin and Gresham Districts, the Commission was charged with investigating the underlying causes of the scandal and making recommendations for reform. The Mayor welcomed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait of Impunity - Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromtheground.com/archive/2006/09/portrait-of-impunity-part2.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Kalven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Among the safeguards the Mayor and Superintendent highlighted is a new “a personnel performance management system” designed to ensure police accountability.    As I reported in the first part of this article, that system exists on paper but not in practice.  It has been announced but not implemented.  What do we know about the effectiveness of the system the City <em>in fact</em> has in place?  Does the CPD conduct adequate investigations of citizen complaints?  Do officers in the field operate with an awareness that their supervisors will hold them accountable and impose appropriate discipline if they commit crimes against citizens?]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait of Impunity - Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromtheground.com/archive/2006/09/portrait-of-impunity-part1.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Kalven</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do the facts support the official narrative? Has the CPD instituted reforms that serve to prevent abuses? Do victims of police misconduct now have effective forms of recourse?]]></description>
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		<title>Canesha</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromtheground.com/archive/2006/08/canesha.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jason</dc:creator>
		
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