https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=4572109&GUID=89786B2D-3E3C-4D16-B311-08359BFEC39CLegistar15https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=4572109&GUID=89786B2D-3E3C-4D16-B311-08359BFEC39C89786B2D-3E3C-4D16-B311-08359BFEC39C-2020-07-31-17-22-31Title: PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 20-2867 PROPOSED RESOLUTION JUSTICE FOR BLACK LIVES WHEREAS, throughout the history of the United States, policing, criminalization, and incarceration have been used as tools of violence and retribution against marginalized groups seeking safety, especially Black people; and WHEREAS, policing was in part developed as a tool to preserve the institution of slavery in the 1700’s, focusing on chasing down runaway slaves and shutting down slave revolts, grew into a weapon to disrupt labor uprisings in the 1800s, and matured in the 1900s to be used as the single most effective tool in repressing the civil rights movement; and WHEREAS, policing has had a troubled history in Cook County, most conspicuously visible in the wrongful conviction of more than 125 Black people over dozens of years as a result of the police work enabled by disgraced Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and his associates, thereby permanently damaging the lives of hundreds of accused people, their family members, and Black communities at large; and WHEREAS, the historic resistance to aFri, 31 Jul 2020 17:22:31 GMT