Why a No-Fly Zone in Ukraine is Insanity!
Anyone who thinks instituting a no-fly zone over Ukraine is a good idea: your ideas are bad and you should feel bad.
Since Validmir Putin...
Disability Activists Not Happy About Peoria’s Co-Responder Bill
Peoria Police could soon be armed with a new tool to fight crime across the city: mental health awareness. Illinois House bill 5319 proposes...
SAFE-T Act Town Hall
Co-Hosted by: CIRC & Afro-Soc BloNo
The Safe-T Act, HB 3653, omnibus criminal justice law signed into law in 2021.
The members of CIRC & Afro-SOC...
CESSA Preempts Police Union Contracts
I wanted to make a correction for my previous video on the managed competition clause of the police union contract and how it could...
Community Emergency Services & Support Act (CESSA)
On February 2, 2012, in Calumet City, IL, Calumet City police were called to handle a mental health crisis. Five officers responded to the...
Bloomington Police Mislead on Alternative Responders
Assistant Chief Wamsley, Interim-Chief Scott, and City Manager Gleason all made very clear in the way they framed the conversation that a non-co-responder model could very likely be a violation of Article 20 of the union contract. A contract with a union who the majority of its members live outside the city limits, don’t pay property taxes, and can’t even vote for the elected officials their bargaining with. If PBPA did file an Article 20 grievance against the City of Bloomington for implementing crisis teams without initial assistance from police, they would be sending the message that they--and not the tax paying residents of Bloomington--should be in charge of how the City spends and prioritizes its resources; and they should be in charge of how the community chooses to democratically address its own social problems.
Policy Over Performance | NAACP & Police Performativity
Agitation Rising was live at a memorial for George Floyd on the West Side of Bloomington on Allin Street Sunday, April 25th, 2021. It...
Chairman Rand Triggered By Facts & Logic
Peoria County Board Chairman Andrew Rand couldn't behave himself to let me finish my public comment at the March 3rd, 2021 County Board meeting....
Black Lives Matter Mclean County Jail Caravan Protest
On May Day, May 1st, Black Lives Matter Bloomington-Normal organized a car caravan action around the McLean County Jail calling for decarceration and to...
The Lamentations of the Bloomington Police Department
Recently, the Bloomington Police Department lamented the impending legalization of cannabis. “Arresting someone for drug-induced DUI is much more time consuming than alcohol-related DUI,”...
