Advice for Chicago’s new top cop: Boost morale, reduce crime
The process for naming a new police superintendent has taken an unexpected turn in the past week. In a rare but not unprecedented move, the mayor rejected all three names...
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Dick Devine: We followed the evidence in the Anthony Porter case
When Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez decided in late October to release Alstory Simon, who had pleaded guilty to a double murder, it brought renewed attention to that troubling...
Hard-working, dedicated prosecutors
In recent weeks the Tribune has mentioned prosecutorial "misconduct" in its editorial pages. This is a term that grabs the public's attention, so it is important that the efforts of...
Drunk driving
On Dec. 19 I attended an emotional candle-lighting ceremony at City Hall to commemorate victims of drunk driving. On Dec. 20 I picked up the front page of the Chicago...
Treatment for some drug offenders works
The Tribune article "State fills up prisons with drug criminals; Study: Possession tops sales as a charge; big racial disparity" (Page 1, Aug. 22) dealt with a Roosevelt University study...
Deadly drugs
In its editorial on meth, the Tribune rightly points out that cocaine and heroin are drug scourges in our community. At the same time, the use of meth in this...
County seeks fair jurors, regardless of race
In the letter to the editor "Juries of color" (Voice of the people, Aug. 4), Randolph Stone, a clinical professor of law at the Legal Aid Clinic at the University...
The lessons of wrongful incarceration
In the Aug. 27 Tribune editorial "The cost of a false conviction" the writer states that the state's attorney's office failed to express its regrets in dropping charges against Michael...
Ensuring that justice is done in Cook County
In its June 23 editorial, "When to own up to mistakes," the Tribune criticizes prosecutors for ignoring evidence of innocence in three old murder cases. In recent years, however, we...
Legal reform
In its Jan. 15 editorial "Obstruction of justice," the Tribune takes issue with me for blocking the many proposed reforms to the capital punishment system. The editorial ignored several important...