Inspired by the Chicago Reader’s extraordinary, decades-long reporting on police torture in Chicago, this conversation explores the role of journalism in uncovering police violence. How has such coverage influenced actual practices and policies related to policing?

Speakers: Reader publisher Karen Hawkins, former Reader reporter John Conroy, Aislinn Pulley, co-executive director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center, and Mark Clements, an activist and police torture survivor.

Original Article posted on Newberry Library.