Saturday, February 23
11 am – 5 pm
University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E 59th St
By the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression Organizing Committee to
Stop Police Crimes, and the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago
The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, numerous organizations, and victims of police crimes call upon all of our sisters and brothers from all strands of the people’s movement to join us in calling the 2nd People’s Hearing on Police Crimes.
The 2nd People’s Hearing on Police Crimes will focus on the problem of police crimes, exploring how police crimes affect violence in the community, and encourage distrust and violence between the community and the police. The Hearing is also a call to action where we will discuss solutions to hold criminal police accountable for their actions, and for ending the absolute police impunity that currently exists.
[For more on the 1st People's Hearing on Police Crimes, click here and here. For a full video, click here]
The Hearing will provide a public forum where the victims of police crimes and community organizations can present their cases and demands for justice. Victims will share stories of police abuses, such as murder, assaults, frame-ups, harassment, drunken driving, and drunken shootings. Due to the absolute unwillingness of Chicago institutions to discipline criminal cops, the People’s Hearing is for many victims their only chance to be heard. We will also discuss the proven police “code of silence,” which encourages and protects criminal police, allowing police crimes to become the norm and not the exception to the rule.
Without a mechanism in place to destroy the police code of silence and protect moral, law-abiding police, the distrust between our communities and the police only grows. As long as criminal police are protected by the system, our communities will only become more violent and our citizens will only become less cooperative with police investigations.
We believe tha
t a Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) is essential in the effort to repair the broken relationship between the police department and the communities they are supposed to protect. We hold that an institution that can truly discipline and prosecute criminal police, and encourage and uplift moral, law-abiding police, can transform the untenable police lawlessness that currently exists.
The 2nd People’s Hearing will provide the people with the tools to free their community from police crimes. Along with the typically silenced voices of police crime victims, we will discuss the following:
- What is CPAC and how can we ensure its enactment
- A comprehensive victim’s plan of action
- Where to find and how to develop, a police crimes victims support group
- How to demand action from the proper politicians or public servants, or how to replace them
- How to file a complaint if you have been a victim of a police crime
- Details and explanation of your human rights and civil rights
It is time for the people to demand that the City Council pass and implement legislation that creates an elected Civilian Police Accountability Council, one with the power to end the reign of terror in Black and Latino communities, and requires that the police truly serve and protect the people of Chicago.
Sponsors and endorsers:
- Khalid Abdullah, National Jericho Movement, Chicago Chapter
- Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
- Arab American Action Network
- Jeff Baker, Committee for Better Chicago
- Marissa Brown, Occupy the South Side
- Rosemary Cade, mother of Antonio Porter, a Chicago Police torture victim
- The Campaign to End the New Jim Crow
- Isannah Challinor
- Frank Chapman, CAARPR
- Chicago Area Peace Action
- Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
- Citizens Alert
- Matthew Clark, Chicago Police beating victim
- Elois Clayton, sister of David Poole, wrongfully convicted
- Mark Clements, Chicago Police Torture victim
- Curley Cohen, Affordable Power and Justice
- Ibi Cole, Vigil for True Justice
- Mrs. William Crosby
- Gladys Daniel, mother of Ewrin Daniel, Chicago Police torture victim
- James Daniel, father of Ewrin Daniel, Chicago Police torture victim
- Liz Deligio
- Aaron Dellutri, Chicago Area Peace Action
- Curtistine Delony, mother of Chicago Police torture victim Javan Deloney
- Clarice Durham, CAARPR
- Mike Elliott, Chair, UAW Local 551 Union Solidarity Committee, CAARPR, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
- Bertha Escamilla, mother of Nick Escamilla, Chicago Police torture victim
- Emmett Farmer, father of Flint Farmer, murdered by Chicago Police
- Linda Flores, mother of John Galvin, Chicago Police torture victim
- Maxine Franklin, mother of Jerry Gillespie, Chicago Police torture victim
- Dickey Gaines, wrongfully convicted
- Peggy Griffin
- Eldon Grossman
- Dylan Hayworth-Weste, NATO 5 Defense Committee
- Mildred Henry, mother of Kilroy Watkins, Chicago Police torture victim
- Pat Hill, African American Police League
- Kamm Howard, N’COBRA, Chicago Chapter Co-Chair
- Human Rights Program, University of Chicago
- Illinois Coalition Against Torture
- Joe Iosbaker, Committee to Stop FBI Repression
- Bishop Edgar Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition
- National Jericho Movement/Chicago Chapter
- Carolyn Johnson, mother of Marcus Wiggins, a torture victim
- Mary L. Johnson, mother of Michael Johnson, police torture victim
- Robin Kaufman
- Attorney Larry Kennon
- Gregory Malandrucco, Chicago Police beating victim
- Cathy McMillan
- Mrs. Rosalind Morgan, wife of Howard Morgan, victim of attempted murder by Chicago Police (shot 28 times), serving 40 years in prison falsely convicted
- Rev. Dr. Otis B. Moss III, Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ
- Ronelle Mustin, Vice President, 22nd Ward IPO
- Attorney Lewis Myers
- NATO 5 Defense Committee
- EvAngel Mama Dee Nubian, YHWH Nation of Obedience
- Occupy Chicago
- Aidali Oquendo, father of Carlos Santos, Chicago Police torture victim
- Ted Pearson, CAARPR
- Annabel Perez, mother of Jaime Haude, Chicago Police torture victim
- Jeanette Plummer, mother of Johnnie Plummer, Chicago Police torture victim
- Kenyatta M. Rosemond, sister of Rekia Boyd who was murdered by Chicago Police
- Randy Ryder, Keepin’ It Real Law Project
- Laurie Samuels
- A. J. Segneri, Foundation for a United Front
- Mrs. Armanda Shakleford, mother of Gerald Reed, Chicago Police torture victim
- Martinez Sutton, brother of Rekia Bouyd, murdered by Chicago Police
- Lydia Taylor
- Michael Tidemore
- Gayle Tuliman, Stateville Speaks
- Kevin Tyson, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago
- Enrique Valdez, Chicago Police torture victim
- Aida Valencia, sister of Carlos Santos, Chicago Police torture victim
- Joseph Watkins
- Danalene Powel-Watts, mother of Stephon Watts, murdered in his home by Calumet City Police
- Steven Watts, father of Stephon Watts, murdered in his home by Calumet City Police
- Stephanie Weiner
- Cherese Williams, CAARPR, Cabrini-Green Legal Aid
- Mary Williams, mother of William Ephraim, Chicago Police Torture victim
- Attorney Standish Willis
- Jonathon Winbush, Occupy the South Side
- Women’s All-Points Bulletin
- Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Pastor Emeritus, Trinity United Church of Christ
- Josephine Wyatt, CAARPR
