It’s something I ask every cop I question: Is there a code of silence in the Chicago police department? “Oh, no.” Have you ever testified against a fellow cop? “Oh, no.” Have you ever seen any police misconduct in your thirty years on the job? “Oh, no.”
The code of silence, this narrative control that the department exercises, includes the press. The press, as a general matter, publishes the police blotter.
People have had to struggle, have had to mount a movement, because the police fights tooth and nail against any monitoring.”
Parents and community members show their commitment to a vision for an alternative to the authoritarian capitalist approach to public education.
Two interview excerpts on the war of maneuver between protesters and police at mass demonstrations.
