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Chicago Newsroom
August 3, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Northwestern University School of Law‚Äôs Sheila Bedi, The Chicago Reporter‚Äôs Jonah Newman and Black Lives Matters Chicago‚Äôs Jonathan Projanski. They discuss the City‚Äôs recent release of a draft consent decree covering police reform in Chicago. They talk about the fact that community organizations won the right to participate in the… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
July 26, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by 45th Ward Alderman John Arena. They discuss reports that the City and the Police Department may be close to an agreement that would produce a consent decree for police reform in Chicago, but there still may be disagreement about whether officers should report each time they point their gun at… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
July 17, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Chicago Mayoral candidate Garry McCarthy. They discuss his tenure as police superintendent from 2011 to 2015 and his assertion that Chicago has to completely reform it‚Äôs economic, educational and law enforcement policies. He also discusses his difficult relationship with Mayor Emanuel, and his dismissal following the LaQuan McDonald shooting. This… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
June 28, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, who‚Äôs spearheading a petition drive to impose a mandatory two-term limit on Chicago‚Äôs mayor‚Äôs office. Quinn claims that he‚Äôs well within the time-frame for gathering the 40-to-50-thousand signatures he needs to get his initiative on the November ballot as a binding referendum. If it achieves… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
June 21, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by two powerful advocates for union representation in the public sector as it faces strong opposition from the Supreme Court. Robert Bruno of the University of Illinois‚Äô School of Labor and Employment Relations and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees‚Äô Public Affairs Director Anders Lindall discuss the current… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
June 14, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by The Chicago Tribune‚Äôs Juan Perez, Jr and Jennifer Smith Richards, two reporters with the on-going Betrayed series, which details a decade of sexual abuse at Chicago Public Schools. They tell us that there are serious issues with the way that reports of sexual abuse are handled at CPS, in that… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
June 7, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Mayoral candidate Dr. Willie Wilson. Wilson is highly critical of Mayor Emanuel, who he accuses of handing out contracts and opportunities to his friends and associates while ignoring minority communities. Wilson says he favors an elected school board and strong community participation in the management of the police department, a… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
May 31, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Lauren FitzPatrick, education reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Sarah Karp, education reporter at WBEZ. They discuss yesterday‚Äôs announcement by Mayor Emanuel that he intends to bring four-year pre-K classes to every CPS elementary school in the next several years, and the free pre-K that already exists at Oscar Mayer… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
May 24, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Tony Arnold, WBEZ‚Äôs State Politics Reporter, Hal Dardick, investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Heather Cherone, City Hall reporter for the Daily Line. They discuss this week‚Äôs raucous meeting at the Chicago City Council in which about a hundred police officers showed up to express their frustration with slow… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
May 17, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas. They discuss Vallas‚Äô proposals for increasing the police force to about 14,000 officers, of whom 1,200 would be detectives. Vallas says his policy would begin to address the city‚Äôs serious issue with low clearance rates for shootings and murders. Vallas also expresses support for Mayor Emanuel‚Äôs… View Article
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