Volume II (2016 - 2019)

In 2015, the Invisible Institute incorporated into a 501(c)3 following the court decision in Kalven v. Chicago (2014), which established that police misconduct records are public in Illinois. The organization grew from a loose network of collaborators into an organization with staff, in order to create a police misconduct data tool that makes Chicago Police data accessible to the public. 

In the aftermath of the murder of Laquan McDonald, the U.S. Department of Justice investigated the Chicago Police Department, sparking a series of reform efforts across Chicago.

The View from the Ground rebooted, as a means to keep the network of Invisible Institute collaborators informed about the police reform processes engulfing the City of Chicago. 

The weekly newsletter by Curtis Black and edited by Darryl Holliday served as “Chicago’s Criminal Justice Playbook,” featuring a roundup of reporting on police reform developments central to the work of the Invisible Institute.  

You can read all the posts from Volume II below.