A new report published by the University of Chicago (U. of C.) Law School seeks to call attention to the perspectives and experiences of the young Black people most affected by urban police practices.

The paper, entitled “They Have All the Power: Youth/Police Encounters on Chicago’s South Side,” was the result of a four year collaboration between the U. of C.’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic and the Invisible Institute, a Hyde Park journalistic production company.

U. of C. law professor Craig Futterman, one of the authors of the report, said the project started as an initiative to improve the daily interactions between police and Chicago’s youth.

“Among the things we hoped to do around Chicago was to role-play and act out and talk through these encounters and find ways to improve them,” Futterman said. “As we talked with more and more kids throughout the city, we saw, more importantly, how much we had to learn.”

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