In three decades of working on public policy, there were a few rules that every thoughtful person in this work followed. On top of that list was the principle that...
Imagine this: A family with young children decides to spend the day visiting a Chicago-area museum, shopping on the Magnificent Mile or hitting some of the historic Lincoln sites in...
As police departments nationwide, including the Chicago Police Department, move swiftly to adopt body cameras to record interactions between officers and civilians, we should pause. It would be unwise to...
In "Fighting crime with DNA" (Commentary, Oct. 9), columnist Steve Chapman embraces a current social phenomenon--dubbed the "CSI Effect"--in his endorsement of DNA collection for all people arrested in the...
Two letters published by the Tribune on Jan. 22, one by Ronald H. Rodriguez ("Profiling at O'Hare") and the other by Janet Poore ("Get over it"), miss the point of...
The front-page headline regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's decision declaring Chicago's "anti-gang loitering law" unconstitutional dramatically distorts the substance and import of that decision ("Top court ruling shows way to...